Amish No Bake Cream Pie With 4 Variations Recipes

AMISH CREAM PIE

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, stir together the sugar, cornstarch and salt.
• Whisk in the half-and-half or light cream and cook and stir over medium heat until the mixture is thickened and bubbly.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in butter, brown sugar and vanilla until butter melts.
• Pour into baked pie shell and sprinkle lightly with cinnamon.
• Bake the pie in a 325° oven for 30 minutes- the center of the pie will not be set.
• Cool the pie on a wire rack for 1 hour.
• Chill for 3 to 6 hours before serving- pie will set up upon chilling.
• Cover for longer storage.

AMISH NO BAKE CREAM PIE (WITH 4 VARIATIONS)

Steps:

• 1. use the 1/4 cup milk to mix the cornstarch in to make thickening.
• 2. cook together all but the vanilla until it thickens add the vanilla stir well and pour into a hot baked crust. Sprinkle with nut meg. Cool and serve
• 3. Variation 1 Add banana extract instead of vanilla, 2 drops yellow food coloring, and add sliced banana's layered on bottom of crust and pour 1/2 the filling, add another layer of bananas and pour the remainder of the filling over top.
• 4. variation 2 add 1 cup chocolate chips to the pan when it is half way thickened and make it a chocolate cream pie.
• 5. variation 3 same as above but add chocolate mint chips for chocolate mint cream pie
• 6. Variation 4 add 3/4 cup peanut butter just before you pour it into the crust, mixing until all mixed

AMISH SUGAR CREAM PIE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
• 2. In a medium size saucepan, heat the cream and half & half together until lightly scalded (it should coat the back of a spoon but should NOT reach a boil). Remove from heat, and set aside.
• 3. In a mixing bowl, beat egg whites until frothy. Add the white sugar, and beat until well blended. Add the brown sugar, flour, salt and vanilla, and beat well.
• 4. Gradually whisk the warmed cream mixture to the egg white mixture, and mix well.
• 5. Pour the creamy pie batter into the unbaked pie shell. (If you like, you can sprinkle a light dusting of sugar, cinnamon or nutmeg on the surface - it's purely optional.) Place pie pan in bottom rack of oven, and bake about 20 to 30 minutes or until set.