Key Lime Bars

My Mom always watches Martha Stewart on television and honestly it gets annoying at times with the amount of recipes she finds. However about a year ago she found a recipe for Key Lime Bars which was just a plate of paradise. I tried making it but as usual it doesn't end up as good as she makes it...

Ingredients

Key Lime Bar

-1 cup plus 2 1/2 tablespoons finely ground graham cracker crumbs

• 1/3 cup sugar
• -5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• -3 large egg yolks
• -1 1/2 teaspoons finely grated lime zest
• -2/3 cup fresh Key lime juice (about 23 Key limes total)
• -1 can sweetened condensed milk (14 ounces)
• -1/4 cup heavy cream
• -2 Key limes, thinly sliced into half-moons

Instructions

1. Make crust: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir together graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter in a small bowl. Press evenly onto bottom of an 8-inch square glass baking dish. Bake until dry and golden brown, about 10 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack. (Leave oven on.)
2. Make filling: Put egg yolks and lime zest in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Mix on high speed until very thick, about 5 minutes. Reduce speed to medium. Add condensed milk in a slow, steady stream, mixing constantly. Raise speed to high; mix until thick, about 3 minutes. Reduce speed to low. Add lime juice; mix until just combined.
3. Spread filling evenly over crust using a spatula. Bake, rotating dish halfway through, until filling is just set, about 10 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack. Refrigerate at least 4 hours (or overnight).
4. Cut into 2-by-2-inch bars. Put cream in the clean bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the clean whisk attachment. Mix on medium-high speed until stiff peaks form. Garnish bars with whipped cream and a slice of lime.