Coconut Cream Pie with Nilla Wafer Crust

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2017, Cook's Country TV

Desserts or Baked Goods
Fruit
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How do you improve a retro classic? Start with the crust and work your way up, packing each component with maximum flavor.

SERVES8 to 10

TIME1 hour, plus 30 minutes cooling and 3 hours chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We packed coconut into all three elements of this retro pie. Grinding sweetened shredded coconut together with Nilla Wafers made a crisp and flavorful cookie-crumb crust. Folding coconut into a milk custard gave us just the tamed tropical t...

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