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Coconut cream pie

Celebrate spring with this classic! - by Fast Ed
  • 23 Aug 2019
Prep: 30 Minutes - Cook: 45 Minutes - Serves 10
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You can use homemade or store-bought shortcrust pastry to make this classic dessert and top it with any seasonal fruit you love.

Ingredients

350g shortcrust pastry, store-bought or homemade

400ml can coconut cream

6 free-range egg yolks

600ml cream

150g caster sugar

75g unsalted butter, diced

1/4 cup cornflour

2 tsp vanilla paste

1/2 tsp coconut essence

1 cup desiccated coconut, toasted

1/4 cup icing sugar mixture

Toasted coconut flakes, to garnish

Strawberries and kiwifruit, to serve

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C fan-forced (200°C conventional). Roll out pastry between 2 sheets of baking paper to a large disc, 4mm thick. Use it to line a buttered and floured 26cm pie dish. Crimp pastry edges decoratively, then chill until firm. Line pastry with foil, fill with baking weights and bake for 25 minutes, until golden. Remove weights and foil. Return to oven for a further 10 minutes to dry out. Set aside to cool completely.

  2. Meanwhile, combine coconut cream, yolks, 150ml of the cream, caster sugar, butter, cornflour, 1 tsp of the vanilla paste and coconut essence in a medium saucepan. Mix well with a heatproof spatula or flat-bottom wooden spoon. Place over low heat. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring, until bubbling and thick. Strain through a fine sieve into a bowl, then whisk well. Fold in coconut, then spoon into pastry shell, smoothing top. Chill until firm.

  3. 3 Whip remaining cream, icing sugar and remaining vanilla into firm peaks. Spoon over pie, then garnish with coconut flakes and top with diced strawberries and kiwifruit to serve.

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'Fast' Ed Halmagyi is one of Australia’s best-loved TV chefs and food authors. For over a decade, Ed has appeared on television and radio, in newspapers, magazines and books.

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