The journey began on Saturday, when the model-turned cookbook author ordered limes from the food delivery service Postmates. She thought she ordered just a handful, but five limes turned out to be five bags of the sour fruit.

 Teigen isn’t alone in getting more than she bargained for when ordering remotely. Remember the 15,000 eggs the Norwegian Olympic team accidentally ordered for their team ahead of the Winter Olympics?

In any case, Teigen assigned family pet Penny to watch over the ingredients and tools as she decided what to do with the mixup:

And then she set to work. This went on late into the evening, when we learned a surprising fact about Teigen:

 So what were the five original limes for? Were she and husband John Legend going to have margaritas? We may never know.

This was a very different experience than Teigen’s last public attempt at ordering fruit. In that case, all she wanted was a bunch of brown bananas to make banana bread, and ended up crowdsourcing the request.

But back to pies: in the end, the results were pretty stunning:

There’s a key lime with vanilla custard and a piña colada key lime with pineapple and coconut, and one whose name shall not be mentioned. We love that she also appears to have handmade the graham cracker crust (a must) and the bonus photo of little Luna, who’s nearly 2-years-old.

They look totally amazing!

That said, given that it takes around 20 limes to create the 2/3 cup of juice most key lime pie recipes call for, there are probably still dozens of limes still rolling around the house.

Looks like Teigen may be in the kitchen a little bit longer.

Source: today.com