DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
vanilla cream pie
Also known as: Pie, vanilla cream, Pie, vanilla cream, prepared from recipe
RICARDO’s selected vanilla cream pie bakes a graham-cracker crust, cooks a vanilla custard and divides one whipped-cream batch between its filling and final garnish.
About vanilla cream pie
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RICARDO’s selected vanilla cream pie layers a smooth vanilla filling over a graham-cracker crust. A shared whipped-cream mixture enriches the filling and finishes the top.
Cracker crumbs, brown sugar and melted semi-salted butter are pressed into a glass pie dish. The crust bakes until golden and cools.
Some milk mixes with cornstarch while the remainder gently heats with a split vanilla pod and its seeds. Eggs and brown sugar are tempered with the hot milk before the custard is cooked until thick.
The vanilla pod is removed, and the custard cools under a surface cover. Cream, icing sugar and vanilla are whipped; half folds through the filling before it enters the crust.
The filled pie and remaining whipped cream are refrigerated separately. When the pie is ready to serve, the reserved whipped cream becomes its final garnish.
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