Mock Coconut Cream Pie
Source of Recipe
tutu @ Somersize Site
Recipe Introduction
Level 1 ~ Pro/Fat ~ Tutu deserves an award for this recipe! This has the taste and mouth feel of eating a real coconut pie.
List of Ingredients
2 cups cooked spaghetti squash
1 1/2 cup cream (tutu: light or heavy)
4 eggs
2 tablespoons melted butter, cooled
sweetener of your choice to equal 1/2 cup cugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoonsp coconut extract (some people use more)
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
Recipe
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 10-inch pie plate with cooking spray. In blender, combine all ingredients, except squash and process until smooth. Add squash to blender and pulse briefly until squash resembles coconut bits (this was somebody else’s idea to pulse the squash to resemble coconut, it cooks up much better this way. Thanks to whomever posted this idea). Pour into pie plate.
Bake 50 minutes to 1 hour (until knife, inserted in center, comes out clean). Let stand 1 hr. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
Tastes better the next day, but just try to stay away, the smell of it cooking was my undoing. Enjoy. Suzanne
To cook squash: pierce with fork several times and place whole squash in microwave on paper towel. Cook on high 10 minutes. Flip squash over and cook additional minutes until it feels soft. Every squash is different. Cut in half and scoop out seeds. The "pulp" looks like spaghetti. Use a spoon to scoop out and measure. Squash is also a great substitute for "real" spaghetti.
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* General notes from posts on this thread:
Cooked spaghetti squash freezes well
Lorann oils coconut flavoring is the best
“I make this wonderful pie, but I change it to chocolate. It is out of this world. I omit the coconut flavoring increase the splenda to 1 1/2 cups and add wondercocoa. Try it, it is great. I also really blend the squash till it is pulverized.” dodie
I emailed dodie and she told me she uses between 1/4 and 1/2 cup cocoa.
* Deb’s note - I increase both extracts to 1 teaspoon each. I increase splenda to 3/4 cup. Everyone has their own way to bake the spaghetti squash, do whatever works for you! I chop mine by hand though, as when I use the blender or food processor, it's too easy to puree it.
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