Chocolate Coconut Cream Pie

While surfing around online I found a fabulous recipe for Chocolate Pie from Chef Jason Hill. His mimics a Chocolate pie sold on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii but is of course made at home. I thought the recipe was super simple and fabulous because it combines two of my favorite things Coconut and Chocolate! I have always had pie crust issues no matter how hard I try it's never as good as moms. So I used pre-made pie crusts. Feel free to make one if you want. Oh and did I mention this is a no oven bake pie. The original recipe has been tweaked slightly to suit my tastes.

Chocolate Coconut Cream Pie
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1/2 cup Cornstarch
1 cup water
1 cup milk
1 cup sugar
14 oz Coconut Milk
7 oz Semi-Sweet baking Chocolate
1 1/2 cups Heavy Whipping Cream
1/4 Cup Sugar
1 Pre-Baked Flaky Pie Crust 10-inch
1 Cup Toasted Coconut *optional


In a measuring cup, mix 1/2 cup cornstarch into 1 cup of water and let it dissolve. This is your cornstarch slurry, which will thicken the coconut milk.

Over medium heat, bring 1 cup whole milk, 1 cup of sugar and 14 ounces of coconut milk to a boil. Reduce the heat on the milk to a simmer and stir in the cornstarch mixture. Now, stir continuously until it thickens up.

In a saucepan, melt 7 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate over low heat. I prefer doing this using a double boiler method rather then just melting in the pan itself. Remove from heat and stir in half of the coconut mixture.

Top baked crust with the chocolate pie filling, then top with the reserved coconut custard. Refrigerate this for one hour.

Now it's time to make the whipped topping. Beat together 1 1/2 cups of heavy whipping cream, with 1/4 cup sugar. Whisk until stiff peaks form.

Now, just layer the whipped cream on the chocolate pie, top it with fresh shaved chocolate shavings, toasted coconut that's it and your done!

Rainbow Dash Ice Cream

My Daughter Loves My little Ponys. In one of her books it had a recipe for something called Rainbow Dash Ice Cream which of course meant mom is destined to make it . I thought it was to simple and cute not to share. I plan on having some fun with this and making it more rainbow colored as the name suggest but my experimentation will have to wait since I have a freezer full of ice cream that I stocked up on when Braums had a sale. Makes a 9x5 loaf pan full of ice cream.

Rainbow Dash Ice Cream
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1 can sweetened condensed milk
2/3 cup chocolate syrup
2 cups heavy cream
rainbow colored sprinkles

Line a 9x5 inch loaf pan with aluminum foil. In a large bowl, stir together sweetened condensed milk and chocolate syrup until combined and color is even. In a separate bowl,whip heavy cream until stiff peaks form. Fold cream into chocolate mixture and pour into prepared pan. Cover and Freeze 6 hours until firm. Serve with sprinkles. That's it and your done.