I’d never tried coconut cream pie. (Sorry to keep beating the same old bush, but do you remember the chocolate pie?! Yeah, it’s that good, so growing up I never branched out.) I hear that two of my aunts make a mean coconut cream pie, but I wouldn’t know. I’d never needed the best coconut cream pie recipe.
Then I got married, and guess what? Handsome HATES chocolate. So no chocolate pie for him. Who is he anyway? Until recently we both thought there was chocolate in Pecan pie – so we didn’t like that pie either. Handsome would tolerate apple pie – it’s pretty dang good.
So what does he like? Coconut Cream Pie. He LOVES coconut cream pie. It’s his favorite. I scoured Pinterest to find a great recipe, but nothing came close to his mom’s recipe. It’s the BEST Coconut Cream Pie recipe. So I begged for it. (And guess what? It’s pretty easy! SCORE!)
This pie is so creamy, so custardy, and oh so delish – it really is the BEST coconut cream pie recipe. Who knew I loved ALL pies so much?
The Best Coconut Cream Pie
Ingredients
Crust:
- 1 c. flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/3 c. shortening chilled
- 3 TB cold water + a few drips
Coconut Cream Filling:
- 3/4 c. sugar
- 1/3 c. flour
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 c. scalded milk microwave
- 2 TB butter
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 2 eggs well beaten
- 1 c. coconut
Instructions
Crust:
- Mix flour and salt
- Cut in chilled shortening until small clumps form
- Sprinkle water over clumps
- Carefully knead
- Add a few extra drips of water (You do not want a crumbly pie crust!)
- Roll out
- Place in pie pan
- Prick with a fork several times
- Place beans or pie weights on the crust
- Bake @400 for 8-10 min (or until golden)
Coconut Cream Filling:
- Combine sugar, flour, salt, hot milk and butter in saucepan.
- Cook on medium until it thickens
- Add a few spoonfuls to the beaten egg mixture
- Stir constantly
- Add egg mixture back to saucepan.
- Cook another 2-3 minutes
- Remove from heat
- Add vanilla, vanilla beans, and coconut.
- Fill pie.
- Cool in fridge
- Top with whipped cream.
Looks delicious! My husband would love this one!
We are so similar! I pretty much only ate chocolate pie growing up but I finally started trying other pies and like most pies! Chocolate will always be my favorite though. And my husband will eat a tiny bit of chocolate pie but prefers anything else! This coconut cream pie looks so pretty and delicious! Thanks for sharing!
I’m totally going to have to make this. And probably eat it all by myself because I’m selfish like that.