Hey everyone, I hope you’re 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 will make it a little 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 current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Coconut Cream Pie is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have coconut cream pie using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Coconut Cream Pie:

1. Make ready 1 Baked pie crust
2. Prepare 1/2 cup sugar
3. Get 1/4 cup cornstarch
4. Make ready 2 cups whole milk
5. Prepare 4 egg yolks
6. Prepare 3 tbsp butter
7. Take 1 cup sweetened flake coconut
8. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla
9. Prepare 2 cups Heavy whipping cream
10. Take 1/2 cup sugar

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. I LOVE LOVE LOVE coconut cream pie. I may just have to make this myself! "Coconut cream pie made the old-fashioned way!

Instructions to make Coconut Cream Pie:

1. Bake your favorite pie crust according to directions. Set aside and cool.
2. Combine sugar and cornstarch in sauce pan. Whisk egg yolks and whole milk in bowl. Whisk into sugar and cornstarch mixture in saucepan over medium heat. Continue whisking until creamy.
3. Remove custard from heat. Add butter, coconut, and vanilla. Stir until all is incorporated. Place plastic wrap directly over custard in pan to prevent air. Set aside to cool for 30 minutes.
4. Spoon custard into baked pie crust. Place in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
5. Whip heavy cream to stiff peaks. Add sugar towards end of whipping. Pipe or spoon cream over the top of the custard. Garnish with toasted coconut. Enjoy.

Coconut cream pie, to be exact! 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. 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.

So that’s going to wrap it up for this special food coconut cream pie recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I am sure you can make this at home. There’s gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!