How to Make the Best Coconut Cream Pie | MyRecipes

This pie has been deemed "the best pie ever" by a slew of online reviewers. Learn how to make it and taste for yourself!

1/2 (15-ounce) package refrigerated piecrusts
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
2 cups half-and-half
4 egg yolks
3 tablespoons butter
1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract, divided
2 cups whipping cream
1/3 cup sugar
Garnish: toasted coconut

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Best Coconut Cream Pie Recipe --- from Old Newark, NJ

from the Tavern Restaurant

NYC Mayor Ed Koch on the Tavern Coconut Cream Pie Recipe:

"The Tavern was famous for its coconut cream pie and even after 50 years I still remember it as the best I've ever eaten."


Coconut Toasted Cream Pie - Tavern Restaurant Recipe

8 servings

1 envelope gelatin
1/3 cup cold milk
3 eggs, separated
1/2 cup sugar
2/3 cup milk
Pinch salt
1/2 pint whipping cream
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 (10 inch) pie shell,
baked and cooled
1 can coconut, toasted

1. Dissolve gelatin in 1/3 cup cold milk. Let stand
2. Separate eggs; to yolks, add 1/2 cup sugar and beat together.
3. Scald 2/3 cup milk; add egg and sugar mixture to milk. Cook until slightly thickened. Remove from stove and add gelatin. Put in refrigerator until set (about

1/2 hour).
4. Beat egg whites with pinch of salt. Fold whites into mixture. Whip cream; add vanilla. Fold into mixture.
5. Fill the pie shell. Toast the coconut until golden; sprinkle on pie. Refrigerate for a few hours.

If you want to read some of the story behind it:

[VahurAasakyla]

I made it and it turned out very good! Only thing was it that it was too sweet. So I know next time when making I use less sugar.

[puchi]

wow, just made this recipe, DELICIOUS!!! 😊

[lemonadesnake]

I'D SHOWER YOU WITH COCONUT CREAM PIE

[moesbyy]

I put every ingredient where it suppose to be but its not thickening when I boil it for a minute

[aminakerimova]

Hello, Can you please write how much gramm everything has like 100g, ....etc

[jaj]

Instead of half and half can you do almond milk

[utopiaa_]

*I N S A N E R A V E N I N T E N S I F I E S*

[KreiviT]

Can you use coconut milk and/or coconut cream instead of half and half?

[samanthatolovaa]

You lost me at “refrigerated pie crust”