Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, coconut cream pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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 foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Coconut Cream Pie is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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:

1. Get 3 cups milk
2. Take 4 lg egg yolks
3. Take 1 cup sugar
4. Get 4 Tbl cornstarch
5. Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
6. Get 1/4 tsp salt
7. Get 1 cup coconut, divided
8. Prepare 1 9” pie crust, baked
9. Take Meringue
10. Prepare 4 lg egg whites
11. Take 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
12. Take 1/4 cup sugar
13. Take 1/4 tsp vanilla
14. Prepare 1/4 cup coconut; for garnish

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. Line baked pie crust with 1/4 cup coconut
2. In large, heavy saucepan, heat milk to almost boiling.
3. In small bowl, mix egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch, vanilla, and salt. Pour mixture into hot milk. Cook until thickened. Add remaining coconut. Cool slightly.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. ALTERNATIVELY, use toasted coconut for lining pie crust and garnishing.

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.

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