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Cream pie

A slice of coconut cream pie topped with whipped cream and toasted coconut
Place of origin	United States
Main ingredients	Pie crust, milk, cream, flour, sugar, eggs
Media: Cream pie

A cream pie, crème pie, or creme pie is a type of pie filled with a rich custard or pudding that is made from milk, cream, sugar, wheat flour, and eggs and typically topped with whipped cream.

Cream pies are usually what is used for pieing, or throwing a pie in someone's face.

Variations

One notable version is the banana cream pie. Cream pies are made in many other flavors, including vanilla, lemon, lime, peanut butter, coconut, and chocolate.

Ingredients

Most cream pies have a custard filling and a whipped cream topping. The custard filling is related to crème patissière, a key component of French cakes, and tarts. It is a one-crust pie, where the crust covers the bottom and sides but not the top. The crust may be a standard pastry pie crust, or made with crumbled cookies or a graham cracker crust.

Most cream pies are made with a cooked custard filling. The "Magic Lemon Cream Pie", invented at Borden and attributed to their fictional spokesperson, Jane Ellison, is instead thickened by the room-temperature curdling of a mixture of sweetened condensed milk, eggs, and lemon juice. This later evolved into Key lime pie.

Pieing

Pieing, or throwing a pie—usually a cream pie—has its origins in the "pie in the face" gag from slapstick comedy. It appears on stage in the music hall sketches of the English theatre impresario Fred Karno. The practice is also used to express disapproval of politicians or other public figures and is sometimes done lightheartedly at charity events, where someone in a position of authority will volunteer to receive a pie in the face from the winning bidder.

Gallery

• Chocolate Crème Pie
• Chocolate cream pie
• Chocolate cream pie

Dishes with similar names

• Boston cream pie is an American cake that in the past has been referred to locally as a chocolate cream pie
• Sugar cream pie is an American custard pie

See also

• List of pies, tarts and flans
• Melktert
• Banana cream pie

References

1. "Pie fight: Debating the origins of the Key Lime Pie". CBS News.
2. ^ von Starkloff Rombauer, I.; Becker, M.R.; Becker, E. (2002). Joy of Cooking: All about pies & tarts. Joy of cooking all about series. Scribner. pp. 73–77. ISBN 978-0-7432-2518-2. Retrieved January 29, 2018.
3. Parks, Stella (2017). BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts. pp. 171–173. ISBN 978-0393634273.
4. Hopkins, Robert Thurston (1928). London Pilgrimages. Brentano's Limited.

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