Graham Cracker-Coconut Pie Crust
- Ready In:
- 17mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Yields:
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1 pie crust
ingredients
- 11 whole graham crackers (to yield apprx. 1 1/3 cups crumbs)
- 1⁄8 stick cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1⁄2 cup sweetened flaked coconut
- 1 teaspoon pure coconut extract
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
directions
- Preheat oven to 350-degrees.
- Place graham crackers in food processor and process until finely ground.
- Can also put them inside plastic bag and use a rolling pin to grind down by hand.
- Combine crumbs, butter, coconut, coconut extract and salt in bowl, stirring until crumbs are moistened.
- Press mixture evenly across 9-inch pie plate.
- Bake crust until crisp, about 7 minutes.
- Let cool completely before filling.
- Crust may be tightly wrapped in plastic and frozen up to one month.
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Reviews
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I was making a coconut pie for Thanksgiving, and I wanted to add a little something, something to it. I wasn't sure what so I found this. I used Chocolate Graham Crackers. OH man was it the extra kick that it needed. I did have to add quite a bit more butter to it to get it to hold together, yet it was just what the pie needed.
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Good crust! I toasted the coconut a little bit before adding it, and I also had to add more butter- probably about 4-5T total, and it was still a little dry, but it tasted great. I made it for the Key Lime Pie recipe that's on the bottle of Joe and Nellie's Key Lime juice. Topped that w/ whipped cream that I'd added 3T of instant vanilla pudding to... turned out really delicious!
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I was making recipe #208323 for our Valentine's Day dinner at church and was having an awful time with my regular pie crust recipe so I decided that I needed a graham cracker crust for the second pie. Because I can't have wheat, I substituted crushed up cookie crumbs for the graham crackers and like another reviewer did need additional butter to make the crust stick together a little better. But all, in all this was a good crust and I will use it again. Thanks for posting this.
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I had to keep adding butter to get it sticky enough to press into the pan. I think I ended up using a little less than 1/4 c, but I think I should have used more, as it was still pretty dry. I baked it longer than it said and it was still just soft. I like my crusts on the crunchy side. My husband liked it though, because of the coconut...
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I was making recipe #208323 for our Valentine's Day dinner at church and was having an awful time with my regular pie crust recipe so I decided that I needed a graham cracker crust for the second pie. Because I can't have wheat, I substituted crushed up cookie crumbs for the graham crackers and like another reviewer did need additional butter to make the crust stick together a little better. But all, in all this was a good crust and I will use it again. Thanks for posting this.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
skat5762
Hampton Roads, Virginia
Food, felines, vino, photography