Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, coconut cream pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Coconut Cream Pie is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Coconut Cream Pie is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook coconut cream pie using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Coconut Cream Pie:
Get 1 cup milk
Prepare 1 cup half & half
Make ready 3 tbs flour
Make ready 1 tbs corn starch
Take 1/2 cup sugar
Make ready Pinch salt
Make ready 3 egg yolks
Get 1/2 tsp vanilla
Make ready 1/2 cup coconut flakes (sweetened)
Get Meringue
Make ready 1 tbs water
Prepare 3 egg whites
Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
Take Pie crust (makes 2)
Get 2 cup flour
Prepare 2/3 cup butter flavored crisco
Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
Take Cold water to form dough
Instructions to make Coconut Cream Pie:
Pie crust
Add salt to flour. Cut the crisco into the flour, do not over mix. Add enough cold water to form a soft dough. Do not over knead. Roll out to 1/8 inch thickness and place in a 9” pie pan. Bake at 350 degrees until lightly golden brown. Take out of the oven to cool.
Cream filling
Mix dry ingredients with the egg yolks. In a sauce pan, add milk and half & half, and bring to a boil. Add the flour egg mixture with the vanilla to the milk mixture. Stirring until the mixture is thick like a custard consistency and no lumps. Cool at room temperature. Pour into cooled pie shell.
Meringue
Add the water, baking powder and egg whites and beat on high until soft white peaks form. Top the custard with the meringue and sprinkle the top with the coconut flakes.
Bake pie at 400 degrees for about 7 minutes until the meringue and coconut are toasted and brown.
Cool at room temperature before putting it in the refrigerator.
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