How to Cook Perfect Old fashioned coconut cream pie

Old fashioned coconut cream pie.

You can cook Old fashioned coconut cream pie using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Old fashioned coconut cream pie

1. You need 1 cup of sweetened, flaked coconut, toasted.
2. Prepare 1 of regular pie crust, blind baked.
3. Prepare 3 cups of half and half.
4. You need 1 cup of sugar.
5. Prepare 1/2 cup of flour.
6. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
7. You need 2 of eggs.
8. You need of Vanilla.
9. It's 2 cups of heavy cream.
10. It's 4 tbsp of powdered sugar.

Old fashioned coconut cream pie step by step

1. Set oven to 350. Toast your coconut on a sheet pan, stirring occasionally. At the same time, bake your pricked pie crust til lightly browned. Set both aside to cool..
2. In a medium saucepan, add the sugar, flour and salt and whisk together then add the 3 cups half and half, vanilla and 2 beaten eggs and whisk together on med/high heat until it comes to a boil and becomes very thick, stirring constantly. Remove from heat..
3. Add half the toasted coconut to the custard and combine. Spread in the baked pie shell. I let mine cool a bit before covering in plastic wrap and allowing to chill for about 4 hours..
4. To make the top I beat 2 cups heavy cream and 4 tbsp powdered sugar to stabilize the whipped cream. Once the pie was cold I added the cream on top and sprinkled the rest of the toasted coconut on top..