Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LI

Coconut Cream Pie

This pie served two purposes: Another test of the new crust recipe and getting rid of leftover coconut. Well, three purposes, I suppose: It also got eaten.

The first crust attempt was for the Malted Chocolate Pecan Pie. It was not good.

For this attempt, I used shredded rather than cubed butter, added the water more quickly with less mixing, and blind-baked it twice as long. It was not good – although my testers said that once one chiseled a piece off it was tasty enough; almost candied.

The filling was from Sally’s Baking Addiction. It tasted mostly like custard and since I had about twice the recipe’s called-for coconut, I dumped it all in (aside from the minor amount set aside to be toasted for topping). This made it a bit chewy, but it did taste like coconut.

I’d rate the filling a success but the crust? Not so much.