Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, coconut cream pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. 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 popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Coconut cream pie is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook coconut cream pie using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Coconut cream pie:

1. Take 1/4 cup cornstarch
2. Get 1/4 tsp salt
3. Make ready 2 cups milk
4. Get 3/4 cup cream of coconut
5. Make ready 3 egg yolks
6. Make ready 2 tsp butter
7. Get 1 cup flaked coconut
8. Prepare 1 (9 inch) baked pie shell

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!

Steps to make Coconut cream pie:

1. In a medium sauce pan, combine the cornstarch, salt, and 1/4 of the milk and whisk until smooth. Add the remainder of milk and the cream of coconut and bring to a boil and thickens. Boil for a minute.
2. Add about a cup of the hot milk mixture to the eggs whisking constantly, to temper the eggs. Pour egg mixture into the pot whisking constantly and bring to a boil. Boil for a minute or so. Add butter and coconut and remove from heat.
3. Pour mixture into prepared pie shell and let sit on counter to let cool down. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 3 hours.

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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