Sweetest readers and eaters, sharing a no-bake coconut cheesecake pie today for our spring recipe swap and blog hop. And teaming up with a bevy of bloggers who are also sharing their fave spring recipes. If you are coming over from Dani’s blog, thank you!! I got a sneak preview of her recipe and it looks divine!!
The idea for this perfect spring dessert came from my childhood memories of my dad’s mom, my Grandma Bubby’s coconut meringue pie. What I would give for just one more taste!
Growing up in New York, Massachusetts and Tennessee, we didn’t get many opportunities to be with either of my grandmothers often. My mom’s mother from Missouri would come stay with us for a few months at a time. But my dad’s mother, who lived in Oklahoma visited for shorter lengths of time and less often. I never felt like I knew her as well as my Grandma Rosebrough. And their personalities were very different. Grandma Rosebrough was more outgoing and outspoken. Grandma Bubby was quiet and introverted. Now that I am grown up and a grandma myself, I am probably more like Bubby in many ways.
My Grandma Rosebrough made the cinnamon rolls and orange rolls and homemade bread I have talked about on the blog before. And while this isn’t my Grandma Bubby’s recipe for coconut pie, it is darn close. And without that scary meringue business on top!
Coconut Cheesecake Pie
Came across this recipe on Pinterest from Together as Family when I was looking for coconut cream pie recipes to satisfy a spring bucket list activity. And my craving for my grandmother’s pie. I realize that coconut isn’t everyone’s favorite thing. And a coconut pie may sound like a whole lotta of something you don’t like much even in small doses. But this pie doesn’t knock you over with a strong coconut flavor. Or texture, for that matter. No-bake coconut cheesecake pie is more cheesecake than coconut pie. And absolutely refreshingly delish.
Grab your sweet tooth and meet me in the kitchen.
Ingredients
- 1 ready-to-use Nilla Wafer crust (I didn’t see a Nilla Wafer crust so grabbed a shortbread crust instead. Not tarrying long in the grocery store these days)
- 2 boxes (3.4 oz each) coconut instant pudding
- 2 cups half & half milk (will try fat free next time)
- 1 bar (8 oz) cream cheese, softened (I used 4 oz fat free and 4 oz regular cream cheese)
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tub (8 oz) Cool Whip (I used sugar-free)
- toasted coconut for garnish
Directions
- Remove cream cheese from the refrigerator to soften.
- In a bowl, combine the dry pudding mix powder with the half & half.
- Whisk together until completely combined and creamy.
- Let it sit for a few minutes so it can thicken.
- Spread 1 1/2 cups of the mixture evenly onto the pie crust to create the first layer.
- Set aside the remaining pudding mixture.
- In a second bowl, combine softened cream cheese with sugar.
- Beat with a handheld blender until combined.
- Fold Cool Whip into cream cheese mixture and stir, using a spatula, until completely combined.
- Add half of this mixture to the remaining pudding mix.
- Stir together until combined then spread on top of the first layer.
- Spread the remaining cream cheese mixture on top to make the third layer.
- Cover with the enclosed pie crust lid and let refrigerate for at least 8 hours, but preferably overnight.
- Shortly before serving, toast about a 1/2 cup coconut in a skillet on low heat, stirring frequently, until light brown (mine got a little too toasty).
- Allow toasted coconut to cool a few moments before sprinkling atop pie.
- Slice and enjoy!!
The shortbread crust was delicious. I think it or even a graham cracker crust can be successfully subbed for the Nilla Wafer .
I was worried that using the sugar free Cool Whip and the fat free cream cheese might keep the pie from setting up right. But it was perfectly creamy and delicious. Might try using all fat free cream cheese next time.
And there will definitely be a next time in the very near future.
You know we have started back on Weight Watchers to get rid of the COVID 19 (pounds) we’ve gained, right? Well, this pie made with the ingredients above keeps it from being WW friendly at all. But if fat free cream cheese and half & half are subbed in, the pie is a little less decadent. I will need to make this again once we’ve lost some of our COVID 19.
BLOG SWAP
Now, here comes the part where you are cordially invited to hop over to Cindy’s Facebook page at Seasonal and Holiday Recipe Exchange to check out her favorite spring recipe. And then be sure you visit all of the other gals linking up with me today. I am so grateful to each of them for being game to give this spring recipe swap and hop a go.
- Deb Keyworth Deb’s Wordl http://debs14.blogspot.com/
- Lauren Kim Mom Home Guide https://momhomeguide.com/
- Laura Bambrick I do deClaire http://www.idodeclaire.com/
- Joanne Rawson My Slices of Life https://www.myslicesoflife.com/
- Carrie Albrecht Curly Crafty Mom https://www.curlycraftymom.com/
- Penny Struebig Penny’s Passion http://pennyspassion.blogspot.com/
- Dani Doman Faster than Forever http://lildesiqua.blogspot.com/
- Dani Park Family.Love.Inspiration https://familyloveinspirationeducation.wordpress.com/
- Leslie Clingan Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After https://onceuponatimehappilyeverafter.com/
- Cindy Handy Seasonal and Holiday Recipe Exchange https://www.facebook.com/TX2Step
YOUR TURN
Before you go, if you have a favorite spring recipe, won’t you share? You can leave it in a comment here or on my Facebook page, here. Or write it up in a post and link-up with us below! The more the merrier. At the end of this thing, we can have a couple of season’s worth of tried and true, great recipes.
Now won’t you join me in heading over to Cindy’s Seasonal and Holiday Recipe Exchange Facebook page? We can run by together. I can’t wait to check out everyone’s good eats!
Thank you, dear friends, for coming by and spending a few moments with me. Thank you to my sweet friends for joining me in this spring recipe swap. I am so blessed!
Deb
I love the flavour of coconut and can imagine that this tasted lovely, especially with those toasted coconut shreds on the top. We don’t have instant pudding or cool whip over here but I’m sure I could work out a way to find substitutes! Isn’t it lovely when you have a recipe that brings back happy memories?
Leslie Roberts Clingan
That is interesting that you don’t have instant pudding or Cool Whip. Hmmm. Leave to Americans to have the fastest easy way to have pudding and whipped cream! Ha! We did really like this pie. It was gone in record time. But I need to wait a bit before making it again. We liked it a little too much for our own good!
Joanne
That sounds delicious! I really like coconut and would devour this in no time. I much prefer a cheesecake version like this to a traditional meringue. Pinned.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Aww, thanks for pinning. This pie is pretty decadent but so good. I won’t be making it for awhile as we are back on WW. But it sure was good!
Kellyann Rohr
Ooooh I need to make this! I love coconut and I love cheesecake. Love the idea of lightening it up with some fat free options. I’m afraid I may eat the whole thing myself! Thanks for sharing, can’t wait to check out the rest of the recipes!
xo,
Kellyann
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Oh, I hope you will make this pie. It was just perfect. And I had to wrestle PC to get my fair share. He ate the last bite right under my nose.
Juhli
Looks delicious and I’m loving how many blueberry recipes are in this hop.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Aren’t those blueberry recipes super? I pinned them all. Need to get to the store, en masque, for some blueberries.
Dara
I am not a fan of coconut!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Ooops! Well, this coconut doesn’t bowl you over but you would probably not care for it!! Be glad, it is 23 WW points a slice! Ha!
Kimberly F Malkiewicz
I love coconut in any form! This looks really good, Leslie. It’s so nice you’ve got the memories of your grandmothers. I’d like to try those orange sweet rolls, too!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
The orange rolls are really something different. Hope you will try them!! And this coconut pie??? Oh, my gravy, so good. We finished it off in
record time so back on Weight Watchers we go.
Joanne Tracey
I love the flavour of coconut – although my hubby doesn’t… Some of the ingredients you’ve shown here are new to me eg the instant puddings and the whip, but that’s what I love about blogging: it opens up a whole new world.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
That’s funny…my friend Deb in London wasn’t familiar with instant pudding (doesn’t have to be cooked) and Cool Whip (prewhipped whipped cream). Not sure what would work as substitutions. This was a yummy pie, though!!
Carrie @ Curly Crafty Mom
OH YUM! This is my kind of pie!!! I love how you have cherished recipes you love that your grandparents made. How sweet! I really can’t think of anything my grandparents ever made me… is that weird?! I know Brian’s mom made him a recipe book of all of her recipes he loved when he moved out (she is now passed, so the recipe book is cherished). I didn’t know one of your grandma’s lived in Missouri, my state.
Carrie
curlycraftymom.com
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Oh, I know that recipe book from Brian’s mom is a keepsake!! What a precious gift.
My mom is a Missourian. And I have family in Springfield, Bolivar, Joplin, Sarcoxie. Mom lived
in Bolivar and Springfield and my parents met at Washington University in St. Louis. Haven’t
been to Missouri since 1990 when her brother, my beloved uncle died. Would like to go back
someday!
Jill
I love pies and anything with coconut in it! This is the perfect dessert for spring! It sounds so refreshing!
Jill – Doused in Pink
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Oh, I hope you will try this pie. It was truly delicious. And PC isn’t all that big on coconut but he loved it!!
Laura Bambrick
This looks so tasty! I love no bake pies, they are so nice and perfect for a summer treat! I can’t wait to try this! Thanks for asking me to be a part of this!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Oh, I hope you will try this pie. It was scrumptious, if I do say so myself.
Liz Klebba
MMMMMM! I love all these flavors, and coconut in anything! I’ve never seen coconut pudding in my neck of the woods, though… I know when we lived in South America, you could get coconut flavored everything. And lots in the Southwest. Coconut cake and icings are very popular here, maybe the pudding will follow. I can always use vanilla and doll it up!
Lauren | Mom Home Guide
This looks great! Thanks for sharing.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you!! It was sinful.