Derek Kaplan, a former Miami firefighter and Division-I soccer participant, pie-lover and self-taught baker, opened his first decadent dessert store in Wynwood in 2014, then expanded to Coconut Grove and moved north with one other Fireman Derek’s Bake Store in 2022 at 250 N. Federal Freeway in Fort Lauderdale. You’ll really feel such as you died and went to dessert heaven whenever you try the menu of greater than 50 pies, truffles, cheesecakes, brownies, bars and cookies, all constituted of scratch, in fact. But, it’s his Key Lime Pie that also ranks excessive as a fan favourite. It has a particular place in his dessert-loving coronary heart as a result of it’s the one which obtained him began, making the pies along with his dad and promoting them to native retailers. Good as a quiet down in South Florida’s sizzling summers, let’s simply say Derek’s Key Lime Pie takes the cake.