Coconut Cream Pie

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    one

    9 inch pie
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Pie for Everyone: Recipes and Stories from Petee's Pie, New York's Best Pie Shop

By Petra Paredez

Published 2020

  • About

If you want pure, nutty coconut flavor, organic unsweeted shredded coconut is superior to the sweetened shredded coconut you typically find in the baking aisle of the grocery store. However, due to its lack of moisture, it needs to be reconstituted somewhat before it’s used in this filling. To do that, as well as to add even more coconut flavor, I use coconut water. The resulting pie has the rich dairy flavor that I look for in a cream pie, but with plenty of nutty coconut flavor. It can be