Coconut Cream Pie

Name: Coconut Cream Pie
Yield: Serves: 6 to 8
Ingredients: 1½ cups milk; 2 cups all-purpose flour; ½ cup (1 stick) cold butter, cut into pieces; ¼ cup sugar; Pinch of salt; ¼ teaspoon baking powder; Pinch of cream of tartar; ½ cup sugar; ½ teaspoon vanilla extract; ¼ cup ice water, or more as needed; Pinch of grated nutmeg; ½ cup fresh or frozen grated unsweetened coconut; 3 egg whites; Pinch of coarse salt; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 3 egg yolks

Preparation info

Serves:
6 to 8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Sweet Hands

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

About

You can use any pastry crust recipe you like for this pie, though I prefer one made with butter rather than shortening or lard, and store-bought pie shells work well, too—without all the fuss. The meringue topping makes for a lovely presentation, but it is optional.

Ingredients

Crust

2 cups all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon baking powder
Pinch

Dessert
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Make Crust

1 Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cut in the butter using a fork or pastry cutter or food processor fitted with a plastic blade until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Slowly drizzle the ice water into the mixture, adding just enough to bring the dough together into a loose ball. Divide the dough into 2 balls and wrap each in p