Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, coconut cream pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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 favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Coconut Cream Pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook coconut cream pie using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Coconut Cream Pie:
- Prepare 3 cups milk
- Make ready 4 lg egg yolks
- Get 1 cup sugar
- Prepare 4 Tbl cornstarch
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 cup coconut, divided
- Prepare 1 9” pie crust, baked
- Take Meringue
- Prepare 4 lg egg whites
- Make ready 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
- Prepare 1/4 cup sugar
- Prepare 1/4 tsp vanilla
- Prepare 1/4 cup coconut; for garnish
Coconut cream pie is a diner classic, but there's no reason you can't make it at home. Cover the coconut cream pie with plastic wrap and chill it until the filling is firm. I LOVE LOVE LOVE coconut cream pie. I may just have to make this myself!
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.
This is the BEST Coconut Cream Pie recipe you will ever try! On Monday, I shared my post on how to toast coconut. So today I want to show you one of my favorite ways to use that toasted coconut. Coconut Cream Pie is a classic dessert for anyone who loves the flavor of coconut. It's similar to my Banana Cream Pie recipe but uses coconut milk and dried coconut in the pastry cream filling to.
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