Moderation 4 Life: Low Cal Key Lime Tartlets

Inspired by a recipe in Fitness magazine, I made some key lime tartlets a couple weeks ago. The best part is that not only are they delicious, but they're only 70 calories each!

You can buy phyllo dough shells that are already made, but my store didn't have those so I just got a pack of phyllo dough. Carefully unwrap the gently thawed phyllo dough. Lay down one sheet as smooth as you can, spray with cooking spray and top with another sheet. Repeat this until you have 6 sheets of the phyllo dough.

Cut the stack into thirds. Once that is done, cut each third into thirds. This will leave you with 9 parts. (Sorry no picture of that part!)

Take a muffin pay and spray with cooking spray. Take one of the nine pieces and gently lay in the muffin cup. Repeat with the others. Smoosh (yes, that's a technical cooking term) the phyllo dough down so you form the tartlet shape.

Place in a preheated oven at 350 degrees, for 10-15 minutes, or until lightly browned.

Take out of the oven and gently move to a rack for cooling. They came easily out of the muffin cup with the help of a spoon.

Alright, for the filling. If you love hard work, grab a bunch of little key limes and individually juice them until you have 1/2 cup of lime juice. I actually found the below pictured bottle of Key Lime Juice and opted to go that route instead. Also, I can't find key limes in my neck of the woods right now! Mix with fat free sweetened condensed milk. Usually I don't opt for fat free because they use a lot of chemicals to maintain the right consistency in products, but I was happy to see that was not the case here. Anyways, I found it was much easier to use my kitchen aid to mix the two because it really helped to combine them nicely into a smooth mixture.

You have to let the key lime/sweetened condensed milk mixture set in the fridge until thickened - with a pudding like consistency. This will take about an hour. [You're going to need to seriously implement some self control and will power here to not eat the whole mixture out of the bowl with your fingers...or a spoon. It is that good!] When this is ready, place 1 tablespoon into each tartlet shell.