Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, coconut cream pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Sweetened toasted coconut is stirred into a homemade custard filling and poured into a pie shell. This is a tried-and-true, old-fashioned coconut cream pie. Took many years of searching and baking.
Coconut Cream Pie is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Coconut Cream Pie is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have coconut cream pie using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Coconut Cream Pie:
- Get 3 cups milk
- Prepare 4 lg egg yolks
- Get 1 cup sugar
- Prepare 4 Tbl cornstarch
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 cup coconut, divided
- Make ready 1 9” pie crust, baked
- Take Meringue
- Take 4 lg egg whites
- Prepare 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
- Prepare 1/4 cup sugar
- Take 1/4 tsp vanilla
- Prepare 1/4 cup coconut; for garnish
Cover the coconut cream pie with plastic wrap and chill it until the filling is firm. Then, top the coconut cream pie with a little more toasted coconut. At this point, you can either slice the pie and serve it or refrigerate it until you're ready to enjoy it! I've never had coconut cream pie but that looks AMAZING!
Instructions to make Coconut Cream Pie:
- Line baked pie crust with 1/4 cup coconut
- In large, heavy saucepan, heat milk to almost boiling.
- In small bowl, mix egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch, vanilla, and salt. Pour mixture into hot milk. Cook until thickened. Add remaining coconut. Cool slightly.
- Make meringue: beat egg whites with cream of tartar until dissolved. Turn mixer to high and beat until stiff peaks form. Add sugar slowly. Add vanilla.
- Spread meringue on top of hot pie, sealing to the edge of the crust. Top with reserved coconut. Bake meringue at 400 degrees F for 10 minutes, or until meringue browns slightly.
- ALTERNATIVELY, use toasted coconut for lining pie crust and garnishing.
I'm going to make this the very next time we have people over for dinner or. i love Claire's Coconut Cream Pie recipe so much, i pinned it twice! i'd add more coconut to both crust and custard, but i love the simple whipped cream topping. "Coconut cream pie made the old-fashioned way! Mounds of fluffy coconut-cream cheese whipped cream, creamy coconut custard filling and a crisp buttery pie crust! This is the ultimate Coconut Cream Pie! It's starts with a buttery flakey pie crust then it's layered with a rich and luscious coconut custard, fluffy whipped cream and finished with toasted coconut. When it comes to pie recipes, this classic coconut pie recipe takes the blue ribbon.
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