Coconut Custard Pie Topped With Toasted Coconut Food

CAN'T-MISS COCONUT CUSTARD PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle; transfer to a 9-in. deep-dish pie plate. Trim and flute edge. Line unpricked crust with a double thickness of heavy-duty foil. Bake 10 minutes. Remove foil; bake 5 minutes longer. Sprinkle coconut over crust; set aside. Reduce oven setting to 350°., In a large bowl, combine the eggs, milk, sugar, flour, vanilla and salt. Pour over coconut; sprinkle with nutmeg., Bake, uncovered, until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, 45-50 minutes. Cool on a wire rack 1 hour. If desired, top with toasted coconut to serve. Refrigerate leftovers.

COCONUT CUSTARD PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Press a sheet of aluminum foil onto crust, draping over rim of pie plate. To blind-bake: Fill with dried beans or pie weights. Bake until crust is lightly browned, about 45 minutes. Remove beans and foil; let crust cool completely, and set aside.
• While crust is baking, place a fine-mesh sieve over a large bowl; set aside. In a medium saucepan (off heat), whisk together sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Gradually whisk in whole milk, making sure to dissolve cornstarch. Whisk in coconut milk and egg yolks.
• Whisking constantly, cook over medium heat until the first large bubble sputters, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to low; cook, whisking constantly, 1 minute. Remove pan from heat; immediately pour custard through sieve into bowl.
• Pour custard from bowl into cooled crust; smooth top with a rubber spatula. Refrigerate until chilled, at least 4 hours (or loosely covered, up to 1 day). To serve, let stand at room temperature 30 minutes, then sprinkle with coconut.

COCONUT CUSTARD PIE TOPPED WITH TOASTED COCONUT

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use 9" pie plate In large bowl, Mix eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla
• 2. add and stir scalded milk very slowly while mixing with whisk.
• 3. Once the pie crust is prepared in the pan, place it on bottom oven rack - without the filling. To avoid spilling - Pour the custard filling mixture into the pie plate (so you don't have to carry the filled plate to the oven
• 4. Add the coconut evenly into the pie filling. Bake for about 45 minute, or until set - when knife inserted comes out clean. NOTE: If you find after about 40 minutes in the oven the pie is still pretty loose, cover it lightly with foil for the last 5 minutes or so..
• 5. Cover the top of the crust half-way through if you like lighter crust. While pie is baking, toast some coconut in a dry fry pan (about 1/3 cup. It burns easily, so stay with it for a couple minutes. After pie is done - sprinkle toasted coconut on top of hot pie.
• 6. Cool on rack, then chill. Enjoy! More photos above

COCONUT CUSTARD PIE

Steps:

• Spread the 1/2 c coconut evenly over bottom of uncooked pie crust and set aside.
• In a mixing bowl mix eggs, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, and salt.
• Mix well, then add milk and half and half.
• Mix this thoroughly.
• Pour over coconut and crust and bake 400o for 50-55 minutes or until a knife inserted into center comes out clean.
• Chill and cover with whipped cream and then sprinkle w/ toasted coconut.

GRANDMA'S COCONUT CUSTARD PIE

Steps:

• Combine eggs, salt and sugar.
• Add milk and vanilla slowly.
• Line pie pan with prepared pastry and pour in filling.
• Sprinkle with nutmeg and coconut.
• Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 325 degrees and bake 30-40 minutes or until knife inserted in center of pie comes out clean.

COCONUT CUSTARD PIE

Steps:

• Place coconut in an ungreased 9-in. pie plate. Bake at 350° for 4 minutes, stirring several times; set aside. (Coconut will not be fully toasted.), Line unpricked pastry shell with a double thickness of heavy-duty foil. Bake at 450° for 8 minutes. Remove foil; bake 4-6 minutes longer. Cool., In a bowl, beat the eggs and salt for 5 minutes. (Mixture will be lemon-colored and slightly thickened.) Add the milk, sugar substitute, coconut extract and vanilla. Transfer to crust. (Crust will be full.), Bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Sprinkle with coconut. Bake 8-10 minutes longer or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean and coconut is lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack for 1 hour. Cover and refrigerate.