Recipe of Ultimate Coconut Cream Pie

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, coconut cream pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Coconut Cream Pie is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Coconut Cream Pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must first 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:

1. Take 1 cup milk
2. Take 1 cup half & half
3. Make ready 3 tbs flour
4. Prepare 1 tbs corn starch
5. Make ready 1/2 cup sugar
6. Make ready Pinch salt
7. Make ready 3 egg yolks
8. Make ready 1/2 tsp vanilla
9. Get 1/2 cup coconut flakes (sweetened)
10. Make ready Meringue
11. Take 1 tbs water
12. Prepare 3 egg whites
13. Take 1 tsp baking powder
14. Get Pie crust (makes 2)
15. Prepare 2 cup flour
16. Prepare 2/3 cup butter flavored crisco
17. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
18. Get Cold water to form dough

Instructions to make Coconut Cream Pie:

1. Pie crust
2. 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.
3. Cream filling
4. 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.
5. Meringue
6. 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.
7. Bake pie at 400 degrees for about 7 minutes until the meringue and coconut are toasted and brown.
8. Cool at room temperature before putting it in the refrigerator.

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