Doughnut Pie! Design your favorite doughnut favlor on each slice. The filling is tender, soft and vanilla fudgy in a flakey crust.
Author: Portlandia Pie Lady
Ingredients
Pie Filling
1-1/2cups vanilla baking chips
1/4cupbutter
113-ouncecan sweetened condensed milk
1/2cup flaked coconut (may substitute almond flour, but pie will bake denser)
3eggsslightly beaten
2teaspoonspure vanilla extract
1recipe9 to 10-inch butter crust pie pastry, unbaked
Butter Crust Pie Pastry
1-1/2cups flour
1/2teaspoonbaking powder
1/4 cup pure cane sugar
12tablespoonsbutter (6 ounces)
1/4 cup cold water
1egg yolk
Vanilla Glaze
1 cuppowder sugar
2 scanttablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Whisktogetherin a small bowl until smooth icing (no lumps).
Chocolate Glaze
1cuppowder sugar
1/2cupunsweetened cocoa powder
2tablespoons milk (may need to add 1 teaspoon extra at a time until desired consistency)
1/2teaspoonvanilla
Whisktogetherin a small bowl until smooth icing (no lumps).
Quick & Easy Pastry Cream
1-1/2 cupsheavy whipping cream
1smallbox vanilla instant pudding mix
Beatwith mixer until thickened and fluffy, about 5 to 7 minutes
Instructions
Butter Crust Pie Pastry
Mix dry ingredients together. Work in butter with large fork until crumbly, do not over mix.
Beat egg yolk with water, pour in all at once into dry mixture and stir JUST UNTIL it forms a dough ball.
With extra flour, roll out pastry dough and place in pie plate, crimp edges by hand or with fork. Fill with pie filling (see below).
Pie Filling & Assembly
Preheat oven to 375 F.
In a saucepan, melt vanilla baking chips and butter over medium heat; just until melted.
Remove from heat. Stir in sweetened condensed milk, coconut, eggs, vanilla blended.
Pour into unbaked butter pastry pie shell. Bake in oven for 45-50 minutes.
Once pie has cooled top with individual toppings/glazes of your choices.
Notes
Variations:Bear Claw: To pie filling add 1-1/2 teaspoons cinnamon and substitute almond extract for vanilla; top with icing glaze and slice almonds.Portland Cream: Top with chocolate icing glaze & pipe pastry cream or whipped cream around edges of cooled pie.Maple Bacon Bar: Top with maple flavored icing glaze and cooked crumbled bacon.Chocolate: Top with chocolate icing glaze.Double Chocolate: In pie filling substitute chocolate chips for vanilla baking chips, top with chocolate icing glaze.