Sunshine's Homemade Coconut Cream Pie
Sunshine's Homemade Coconut Cream Pie

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, sunshine's homemade coconut cream pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Sweetened toasted coconut is stirred into a homemade custard filling and poured into a pie shell. After the pie is chilled and set, it's covered with whipped topping and This is a tried-and-true, old-fashioned coconut cream pie. Took many years of searching and baking to find the right one and this is it!

Sunshine's Homemade Coconut Cream Pie is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Sunshine's Homemade Coconut Cream Pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook sunshine's homemade coconut cream pie using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Sunshine's Homemade Coconut Cream Pie:
  1. Get basic pie crust
  2. Make ready 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  3. Get 1/4 tsp salt
  4. Get 1/2 cup Crisco shortening
  5. Take 3 to 4 tablespoon cold water
  6. Get coconut cream
  7. Make ready 3/4 cup sugar
  8. Prepare 1/8 tsp salt
  9. Get 1/4 cup cornstarch
  10. Take 2 3/4 cup milk
  11. Get 3 large eggs yolks
  12. Make ready 1 cup coconut flakes divided
  13. Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp butter
  14. Get 1 tsp plus 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
  15. Get meringue
  16. Take 3 egg whites room temp,
  17. Get 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
  18. Take 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar

This is my best coconut cream pie recipe that features homemade flaky pie crust and a creamy dreamy coconut cream filling. Since this coconut cream pie has a filling that does not get baked you will need to fully bake your pie crust before assembling. In this video I show you how I made my birthday pie. I actually like pie more than cake and I LOVE coconut cream pie.

Steps to make Sunshine's Homemade Coconut Cream Pie:
  1. preheat oven to 425°F,useing a 9" pie dish.
  2. combine flour and salt cut in shortening with the pastry blade or your fingers till coarse meal. with a fork stir in enough cold water 1 tablespoon at a time, to moisten dry ingredients, shape into a ball.
  3. roll out dough into 1/8 inch thickness on a lightly floured surface, place in pie plate, fold edges under and flute, with a fork, poke holes on bottom and sides of shell,now bake the shell for 12 to 15 minutes…..when shell is done take out of oven set to side, make coconut cream now.
  4. CREAM COCONUT in a heavy saucepan, combine sugar,cornstarch, and salt. and mix the milk and egg yolks together in a small bowl, pour milk mixture into dry ingredients, stir till smooth ,cooking over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils,cook another 30 seconds, stirring rapidly. take off heat, add the butter, coconut flakes and vanilla extract all at once. stir in good,pour in ready pie shell
  5. cover filling with plastic wrap or wax paper, this prevents a film growing on top of custard,set pie a side.
  6. (Making The Meringue) beat room temp, egg whites and cream tartar, on hight speed useing electric mixer or standing mixer, for 1 minute, gradually add the sugar one tablespoon at a time, beat 3 to 4 minutes with electric mixer, for standmixer 2 minutes.till stiff peak. spoon out meringue placing on custard filling to the edge of shell to seal, (don't forget to remove the plastic from custard.lol), now after u got all your meringue in place. sprinkle the rest of your coconut on top, placing pie back in oven, should be on 350°F, this is to golden brown the top for 10 minutes, (never use broiler to brown ur coconuts ) when 10 minutes is up ,take out of oven ,let completely cool, about 4 hours or more, then cut and serve …..enjoy this pie!!!!!!!!!!

I adapted the recipe to not only make. Coconut cream is available in cans in the supermarket (usually in the international foods aisle), but it is actually easy to make your own at. But not just any Coconut Cream Pie. This is re-imagined with a tropical-inspired Macadamia nut-infused graham cracker crust and a sturdy but silky coconut cream filling that's made with actual coconut milk. Throw in some golden toasted coconut and homemade whipped cream and you've. · The coconut cream pie comes out light and fluffy with this recipe.

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