Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, coconut cream pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Coconut Cream Pie is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Coconut Cream Pie is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

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.

To begin with this recipe, we must first 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. Get 1 cup sugar
4. Take 4 Tbl cornstarch
5. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
6. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
7. Make ready 1 cup coconut, divided
8. Make ready 1 9” pie crust, baked
9. Prepare Meringue
10. Prepare 4 lg egg whites
11. Prepare 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
12. Make ready 1/4 cup sugar
13. Prepare 1/4 tsp vanilla
14. Get 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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