Description
This Coffee Cream Pie recipes has a creamy coffee filling that needs no gelatin and is lightly sweet and fluffy is topped with a homemade roasted blueberry topping that makes this a surprisingly fantastic duo.
Ingredients
Dough
150 grams / 1 1/4 cups plain flour
1/4 teaspoon sea or kosher salt
110 grams / 3.88 ounces butter, chilled and cubed
62 milliliters / 1/4 cup ice water
Coffee filling
500 grams / 1.1 pounds mascarpone
150 grams / 1/2 pound cream cheese
80 milliliters / 1/3 cup strong coffee or espresso
50 grams / 1/4 cup superfine/caster sugar
Blueberries
166 grams / 1 cup blueberries, roughly chopped
50 grams / 1/4 cup superfine/caster sugar
Instructions
Dough
- For the dough, place the flour and salt into a bowl and stir to combine.
- Add the cubed butter and toss through the flour to coat completely in flour.
- Press each cube between your fingers to thin out and continue tossing through the flour, trying to ensure the butter becomes no smaller than the size of peas.
- Add in a little of the ice water and stir to combine, continuing 1 tablespoon at a time until a dough forms, but ensuring it’s not too sticky, but that there are no dry portions in the base of the bowl.
- Press firmly into a disc, wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 220C/425F.
- Lightly flour your surface and both sides of your dough and roll out to ¼ inch thickness.
- Flipping the dough and adding a small sprinkle of flour, where necessary.
- Roll the dough around your rolling pin and place into your pie dish.
- Pressing therein and trimming the edges, folding ½ inch of the dough under the edges and pinching firmly.
- Return the dough to the fridge for 20 minutes to cool.
- Remove, pierce with a fork all over.
- Lay greaseproof paper therein and fill with baking beans or rice right up to the edges of your crust.
- Bake for 20 minutes until the edges are golden, remove the baking beans and continue to bake until golden all over, approximately 15 further minutes.
- Remove and allow to cool completely.
Blueberries
- Meanwhile, place the blueberries and sugar in a baking dish and stir the sugar throughout.
- Bake in the oven for 12 minutes. Remove and allow to cool.
Coffee filling
- Place the mascarpone, cream cheese, coffee and sugar in a bowl and whisk until smooth.
- Spoon the coffee cream into the pastry base and spread it evenly out.
- Lastly, spoon the blueberry topping over the creamy filling.
- Slice and serve.
- Dig in!
Notes
Recipe by Roamingtaste
Keywords: pie, cream pie, coffee recipe