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Basic Cream Pie Filling

Source of Recipe

nw_dee (EDC)


Recipe Link: messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-fdcooking&msg=6520.5

List of Ingredients

3 cups water
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
3/4 cup dry milk
3 ounces vanilla pudding mix -- (cooked type pudding)
1/2 cup cornstarch -- plus 2 tablespoons
1 egg


Recipe

Bring 3 cups water and sugar to a boil in a saucepan. In a bowl, combine the remaining ingredients with a whisk until smooth. When the sugar syrup has come to a boil and the sugar is completely dissolved, add the milk mixture to the pan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with the whisk until the mixture thickens (only takes a few minutes).

Remove from heat and stir in your favorite flavoring or use plain for vanilla cream pie or pudding. Pour into baked pie shell. Chill and top pie with whipped cream, if desired, when cold. Makes enough for one pie.
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Variations ( Add to hot pudding):
1) German Chocolate - stir in 1 cup chocolate chips, top with german chocolate cake frosting and whipped cream.

2) Dark Chocolate - stir in 1 cup chopped dark chocolate, such as Hershey's special dark.

3) Peanut Butter - stir in 1 cup peanut butter.

4) Banana - stir in 2 sliced bananas and 1/4 teaspoon banana extract.

5) Coconut - stir in 1 cup coconut and 1/4 teaspoon coconut
extract.

6) Pina Colada - stir in 1/2 cup coconut and 1/2 cup well
drained crushed pineapple.

7) Rum raisin - stir in 1 cup raisins and 1 teaspoon rum
extract.

8) Reese's - stir in 1/2 cup chocolate chips and 1/2 cup
peanut butter.

9) Stir in anything else that sounds good.