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I made these key lime bars awhile back for my co-worker’s birthday.  But given how gray and rainy it has been in the Bay Area for the past week, I figured we could use a bright, citrus-y pick-me-up.

If you don’t have to juice your own key limes, or happen to have pre-bottled key lime juice available, these are incredibly easy bars to pull together.

However…

If you don’t happen to be so blessed, be prepared to juice about 25 of these wiley little suckers.  Because that’s what they are, wiley little suckers.

I know that a citrus reamer, or other tools of that sort, would make this job much easier.  But we did not own such a tool at the time.  So I juiced enough of these wiley little suckers to get 2/3 cups of fresh key lime juice.

But boy was it worth it.

Horribly out of focus picture aside, these bars were smooth and creamy and very citrus-y.  They were a little too tart for me, but a dollop of fresh whipped cream easily evens out the tartness.

Something perfect to brighten a cold winter day.

Recipe can be found here.