Coconut Custard Pie
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 4:12 pm
Custard pies and custard tarts are favourites of mine, but the cooking of them is tricky, as egg custards can separate if the oven is a little too hot. Here is a completely easy and simple cheat, that makes a custard pie with ingredients all mixed together that automagically separate in the dish into a soft crust, a custard filling and a toasted coconut top.
Preheat oven to 350ºF
In your mixer, blender or just a bowl with a whisk, mix the following:
4 eggs
6 TBSP olive oil or butter
¾ cup sugar
½ cup white flour
2 cups milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp ground nutmeg
mix until no lumps, then add
1 cup sweetened coconut flakes, and mix briefly (we don't want the coconut to absorb moisture or it won't float)
Pour the mix into a greased or non-stick 9 or 10" pie dish and bake for 60 minutes. Let it cool 10-20 minutes before cutting, or the custard will be too fragile to cut neatly. When you cut it, you will find the flour has sunk to the bottom, along with some fat and egg, and made a soft crust. The egg custard is sweet and nutmeg-y, and the coconut has browned on the top. It's delicious while still warm, but if you put the rest in the fridge it will firm up quite a lot and cut easily into slices. Tastes better when still hot, though.
Just look at that! All of five minutes' work and an hour's wait. Delicious and idiot-proof. My kind of cookery!
C.
Preheat oven to 350ºF
In your mixer, blender or just a bowl with a whisk, mix the following:
4 eggs
6 TBSP olive oil or butter
¾ cup sugar
½ cup white flour
2 cups milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp ground nutmeg
mix until no lumps, then add
1 cup sweetened coconut flakes, and mix briefly (we don't want the coconut to absorb moisture or it won't float)
Pour the mix into a greased or non-stick 9 or 10" pie dish and bake for 60 minutes. Let it cool 10-20 minutes before cutting, or the custard will be too fragile to cut neatly. When you cut it, you will find the flour has sunk to the bottom, along with some fat and egg, and made a soft crust. The egg custard is sweet and nutmeg-y, and the coconut has browned on the top. It's delicious while still warm, but if you put the rest in the fridge it will firm up quite a lot and cut easily into slices. Tastes better when still hot, though.
Just look at that! All of five minutes' work and an hour's wait. Delicious and idiot-proof. My kind of cookery!
C.