Island Pineapple Pie Recipes

ISLAND PIE

Steps:

• Crush vanilla wafers and mix with melted butter. Pat in bottom of 9 X 13 pan and top with bananas that have been dredged in lemon juice.
• Mix cream cheese with confectioner's sugar and vanilla until smooth and fluffy. Spread a little over ½ of mixture over bananas. Top with crushed pineapple.
• Mix the remaining cream cheese mixture with an 8 oz tube of cool whip. Spread a generous amount of mixture over pineapples.
• Top with strawberries and blueberries. Mix more cool whip and toasted nuts in what you have left of the cream cheese mix and top the pie off with this.
• Want to make it extra pretty? Garnish it with more Strawberries and Blueberries. Keep this one chilled until you are ready to serve it. Enjoy!

GRANDMA T'S PINEAPPLE CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Whisk sugar, flour, and salt together in a saucepan over medium heat. Add milk and cook, whisking constantly, until mixture thickens and begins to bubble, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Stir pineapple, egg yolks, and butter into milk mixture. Return to heat and cook over medium heat until mixture begins to bubble, 3 to 5 minutes. Continue cooking, stirring constantly, until hot and thick, about 2 minutes more. Pour mixture into prepared pie crust. Refrigerate until chilled, at least 3 hours.

CREAMY PINEAPPLE PIE

Steps:

• Combine milk, pineapple and lemon juice; fold in whipped topping. Pour into prepared crust. Refrigerate until serving. If desired, serve with toasted macadamia nuts and additional crushed pineapple.

ISLAND PINEAPPLE PIE WITH COCONUT CHANTILLY CREAM

Steps:

• For the crust, in the bowl of a food processor pulse together the flour, sugar, and salt. Add the butter and shortening and pulse until mixture is crumbly with some medium-sized pieces of butter still visible. Add the lesser amount of water and pulse until mixture begins to clump together. (Add more water if necessary). Gather dough into a ball, divide in half, and wrap in plastic. Flatten dough into a disks and regrigerate at least 30 minutes. Roll out one section of dough into a cirlcle large enough to fit a 9 inch pie plate. Ease dough into pie plate and refrigerate until filling is ready. For pie filling, drain pineapple, reserving 1 1/3 cups juice. Set pineapple aside. In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Slowly whisk in the reserved pineapple juice until smooth. Bring the mixture to a boil over low heat, stirring constantly, and simmer 1 minute. Remove from heat. Stir in the butter until melted and then stir in the pineapple, coconut, orange zest, lemon juice, orange juice, and coconut extract. Cool to room temperature and stir in the macadamia nuts. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees. Roll out top crust. Place cooled filling in the crust-lined pie plate and carefully apply the top crust. Crimp edges and make several slits in the top of the crust. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes until top is golden. For the coconut chantilly cream: Place coconut on a baking sheet and cook for 5 to 9 minutes, stirring well after every 2 minutes, until coconut is evenly browned. Cool completely. In a medium bowl of an electric mixer, beat cream, sugar, and coconut extract on high speed until soft peaks form. Stir in 1/2 cup of the toasted coconut. Serve pie slices topped with dollops of the coconut chantilly cream. Garnish top of pie with remaining 1/4 cup toasted coconut.

CREAM CHEESE-PINEAPPLE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle; transfer to a 9-in. pie plate. Trim crust to 1/2 in. beyond rim of plate; flute edge. Refrigerate while preparing filling., Combine sugar, cornstarch and pineapple plus juice in a small saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture is thick and clear. Cool; set aside. , Blend cream cheese, sugar and salt in mixer bowl. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Blend in milk and vanilla. (Mixture may look curdled.) Spread cooled pineapple mixture over crust. Pour cream cheese mixture over pineapple layer; sprinkle with pecans. , Bake for 10 minutes; reduce heat to 325° and bake for 50 minutes. Cool.

ISLAND PINEAPPLE PIE

Steps:

• Combine pineapple and mandarin oranges.
• Add dry pudding and lemon juice.
• Fold in Cool Whip.
• Add mixture to crust.
• Chill and serve.