Coconut Cream Pie

have a 9" baked pie crust ready. You can easily make your own. Easy Pie Crust. (Bake at 450 for 12-15 minutes)

You'll need:

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup corn starch
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3 cups cold milk
• 4 eggs (separate the yolks and the egg whites)
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 4 Tsp butter
• 1 cup flaked coconut

For the meringue you'll need:

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 4 egg whites
• 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
  
• 1/4 cup flaked coconut

Mix the sugar, corn starch and salt. Slowly add the 3 cups cold milk. Heat over medium heat until boiling. (You'll want to stir constantly).
In a separate bowl mix the egg yolks. Add about 1 cup of the hot milk mixture to the egg yolks and mix well. Then add the egg mixture to the milk mixture and boil for about2 minutes. Add the vanilla and the flaked coconut.

Pour filling into pie crust.

Prepare the meringue: put the egg whites (4) in a mixer and mix until foamy. Then slowly add the 1/2 tsp cream of tartar and the 1/2 cup sugar.

Spread the meringue over the pie. And sprinkle with coconut flakes.

Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes

Let cool in fridge for at least 3 hours.

ENJOY!

Lemon Meringue Pie

1. Put pie crust (9”) in Oven at 475 for about 10 minutes or till golden

2. 1 ½ cups sugar

1/3 cup corn starch

Mix in sauce pan

Add 1 ½ cups cold water and stir

Cook over medium heat till thick

3. Beat 3 egg yolks add some thick mixture to egg and stir then mix the eggs with the thick mixture and boil for a minute.

Add 3 Tbsp Butter, ¼ cup lemon juice, and 1 Tbsp lemon zest

4. Put in the pie crust

5. Beat 3 egg whites till foamy, add 3 tsp lemon juice, and slow add 6 Tbsp Sugar and beat till stiff.

6. Put mixture on pie filling

7. Bake at 400 for 8-10 minutes