Cream Pies (& Variations)

Ingredients

The Basic Recipe

3/4 C sugar
1/3 C flour
1/4 tsp. salt
2 C whole milk
2 eggs or 3 egg yolks
1 T. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1 baked and cooled 9 in. pie shell
whipped cream to top pie

Cream Pie Variations

Chocolate Cream Pie
Make basic filling and add 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips to hot filling in pan. Stir until chocolate melts completely.

Banana Cream Pie
Make basic filling, cool. Slice 2 or 3 bananas into bottom of pie shell. Pour cooled basic filling (or chocolate filling) on top.

Coconut Cream Pie
Stir 1 cup flaked coconut into basic filling just before pouring into pie shell. Sprinkled toasted coconut on top of the whipped cream for a beautiful and tasty presentation.

Butterscotch Cream Pie
Substitute 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar instead of white sugar in basic filling recipe, and increase the butter to 3 tablespoons. Cook in the same manner as the basic filling.

Eggnog Cream Pie
Stir in 1/4 tsp. nutmeg into the basic mixture. Sprinkle a small amount of nutmeg on the whipped cream.

Check out these hints

Did you ever try cooking the puddings in the microwave?

 

Put all ingredients in an 8 cup measuring cup and beat them with a rotary hand mixer

(you know, the old fashioned hand kind).

 

Set the microwave for about 10 min on level 8.

Every 2 min or so, take out and beat with the mixer 

When it begins to thicken, beat for l more min.

When you take out for the last time, beat again until smooth.

Procedure