Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, coconut cream pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Follow the recipe closely including using canned coconut milk, half-and-half, and tempering the egg yolks. This Coconut Cream Pie takes a buttery crisp prebaked pastry crust and fills it with a coconut flavored cream. Coconut Cream Pie has to be one of THE best desserts ever, yes I love Oreos and the like but I would always pick this classic dessert any day over all the new trendy ones coming through!
Coconut Cream Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Coconut Cream Pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have coconut cream pie using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Coconut Cream Pie:
- Take 3 cups milk
- Make ready 4 lg egg yolks
- Prepare 1 cup sugar
- Get 4 Tbl cornstarch
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1/4 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 cup coconut, divided
- Take 1 9” pie crust, baked
- Get Meringue
- Make ready 4 lg egg whites
- Make ready 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
- Take 1/4 cup sugar
- Prepare 1/4 tsp vanilla
- Get 1/4 cup coconut; for garnish
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Steps 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.
The individual components of this pie can be prepared. My husband's all-time favorite dessert is the signature coconut cream pie served at The Capital Grille in Washington, DC. 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. "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!
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