Basic Cream Pie Filling With Variations Recipes

OLD ENGLISH CREAM PIE FILLING

Steps:

• In a sauce pan, combine milk and butter. Bring to a boil. In a medium bowl, combine eggs, sugar, cornstarch and salt. Slowly whisk 1 cup of hot milk mixture into egg mixture. Gradually whisk egg mixture back to remaining milk mixture. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Allow to cool.

BASIC CREAM PIE FILLING

Steps:

• Whisk all of your ingredients together in a pan.
• Cook on high until it is almost to a boil.
• Reduce heat to medium and take off when it has started to boil again.
• Cool thoroughly with plastic wrap placed directly on top of filling.
• Spoon into 2 pre-baked and cooled pie shells.
• Note: Use the flavor of jello pudding to correspond to the pie you are making, banana for banana cream, chocolate for chocolate cream etc. Sliced bananas, coconut, grated chocolate etc. can be added to the filling or the bottom of the shells before adding cream filling.
• Bonus note: Mix 1 cup Coolwhip with 1 pint of whipping cream after whipping to stabilize the cream. It will taste like fresh cream and will not get watery. You can cover your cream pies in this whipping cream and it will stay nice for as long as the pie lasts.

EASY CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Combine cracker crumbs and 1/4 cup sugar with melted butter. Using the bottom of a glass, press cracker mixture onto bottom and up the sides of a greased 9-in. deep-dish pie plate. Bake until set, 12-15 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack., Meanwhile, sprinkle gelatin over cold water; let stand 5 minutes. Beat cream cheese and remaining sugar until smooth. Slowly beat in cream and vanilla. Microwave gelatin on high until melted, about 10 seconds; beat into cream cheese mixture. Transfer filling to crust. Refrigerate, covered, until set, about 3 hours., If desired, top with mixed fresh berries.

BASIC CREAM PIE FILLING WITH VARIATIONS

Steps:

• 1. Bring 3 cups water and sugar to a boil in a saucepan.
• 2. In a bowl, combine the 1 cup cold water and the remaining ingredients with a whisk until smooth.
• 3. When the sugar syrup has come to a boil and the sugar is completely dissolved, whisk the milk mixture and add to the pan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with the whisk until the mixture thickens (only takes a few minutes).
• 4. Remove from heat and stir in your favorite flavoring or use plain for vanilla cream pie or pudding.
• 5. Pour into baked pie shell. Chill and top pie with whipped cream, if desired, when cold. Makes enough for one pie.
• 6. Variations:( Add to hot pudding) German Chocolate - stir in 1 cup chocolate chips, top with german chocolate cake frosting and whipped cream. Dark Chocolate - stir in 1 cup chopped dark chocolate, such as Hershey's special dark. Peanut Butter - stir in 1 cup peanut butter. Banana - stir in 2 sliced bananas and 1/4 teaspoon banana extract. Coconut - stir in 1 cup coconut and 1/4 teaspoon coconut extract. Pina Colada - stir in 1/2 cup coconut and 1/2 cup well drained crushed pineapple. Rum raisin - stir in 1 cup raisins and 1 teaspoon rum extract. Reese's - stir in 1/2 cup chocolate chips and 1/2 cup peanut butter. Banana split - stir in 1 chopped banana, 1/2 cup drained crushed pineapple, 1/2 cup sliced strawberries. Top with whipped cream and drizzle with chocolate sauce and chopped nuts. Hawaiian - stir in 1 sliced banana, 1/2 cup drained crushed pineapple and 1/2 cup coconut. Cheesecake - stir 3 oz. softened cream cheese into hot filling until melted. Top cooled pie with cherry pie filling or other favorite fruit topping. Stir in anything else that sounds good.