Coffee Pie With Meringue
My coffee pie recipe includes a decadent and creamy coffee filling inside a flaky pie crust with a light and fluffy meringue topping.
You know how we each have a “thing” that we always have on hand or something that we always do that just makes our life infinitely nicer? That for me is, of course, COFFEE! There are a few other coffee-flavored treats floating around Southern Plate, like my coffee brownies (with coffee frosting), coffee butter cake, and cappuccino cake with cappuccino buttercream frosting. But today I’m excited to share with you this decadent coffee cream pie recipe.
Coffee lovers will be droolin’ over the wonderful coffee aroma with a hint of cream and sweetness that’s just enough for all palates! I like to say it tastes like coffee smells a.k.a amazing! Fortunately, this is an easy coffee pie recipe that you will ace! I based this pie recipe on my lemon meringue pie recipe. It took a little work and modifications to get it just right but now I have a pie I know you’ll love as much as I do.
It includes a store-bought graham cracker crust to make life easier, which will fill with the creamiest coffee filling. It’s made from eggs, butter, condensed milk, flour, vanilla extract, and instant coffee. The final piece is the light and fluffy meringue topping. Once you assemble your coffee pie, all you need to do is bake it for 15 minutes and then (unfortunately) let it chill.
But hey, I promise it’s worth the wait. I just know you’ll love the combination of the fluffy meringue with the creamy coffee filling. I know I do. In fact, I think it’s safe to say that this coffee cream pie is my new birthday pie.
Let’s get this coffee party started!
Recipe Ingredients
- Sweetened condensed milk
- Vanilla extract
- Instant coffee granules
- Eggs
- Unsalted butter
- Graham cracker crust
- Flour
- Sugar
How To Make Coffee Cream Pie
Separate your eggs.
They were getting far too chummy in there anyway.
Make sure you don’t have any of the yolk (right) in with the white (left).
Place your ingredients in a saucepot: egg yolks (save the whites), butter, condensed milk, flour, and instant coffee granules.
Put this over medium-high heat and stir constantly until it comes to a little boil.
Reduce heat to medium and continue stirring until it is thickened (about 10 minutes altogether).
Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
If you forget to stir in the vanilla, no worries. It’ll still be fine.
I know it seems thick already but it will get thicker.
Pour your filling into your pie shell. Allow it to cool slightly while you make your meringue.
Oh, please please please lick that spoon that you stirred the filling with as an omen of good things to come!
Making the meringue
Make your meringue by placing your egg whites in a mixing bowl and beating the living mess out of it until it gets really good and foamy.
Add in sugar and beat again until it looks like this.
It is always important to make sure your mixing bowl and beaters are SUPER SUPER clean when making a meringue. If there exists the slightest hint of grease or oil residue on them, your egg whites won’t whip like you want them to.
Spread your meringue over the top of your pie, being sure to spread it all the way to the edges so that it touches all around.
This prevents the meringue from pulling back and shrinking while baking.
Place this in the oven at 325 for 15 minutes, or until the top is nice and golden brown.
Allow the pie to cool slightly and then cover and place in the refrigerator until thoroughly chilled.
Enjoy a cool slice of coffee lover’s heaven!
Storage
Cover the coffee cream pie with plastic wrap/aluminum foil or place leftovers in an airtight container and store them in the fridge for up to 2 days.
Recipe Notes
- Feel free to make your own homemade pie crust (this is my recipe but it’s not for a graham cracker crust).
- To make two cups of instant coffee, refer to your individual coffee package.
Recipe FAQs
How do you make chocolate coffee pie?
You can make chocolate coffee pie by adding three tablespoons of cocoa powder to the pie filling. Another idea is to use a chocolate pie shell instead, like an Oreo cookie crust.
How do you serve coffee pie?
Now, this coffee cream pie tastes perfect as is. However, if you want to add a drizzle of chocolate sauce or caramel sauce I’m not gonna stop ya!
You need these other pie recipes in your life:
Caramel Banana Pie (a.k.a Easy Banoffee Pie)
Buttermilk Peach Pie With Canned Peaches
Ingredients
- 1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 3 eggs, separated
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose or self-rising flour
- 1/4 stick butter
- 2 packs instant coffee granules, usually 1-2 tablespoons depending on how strong of a coffee flavor you want
- 1 regular-size graham cracker crust
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup sugar
Instructions
- In a medium saucepot, combine butter, condensed milk, egg yolks, instant coffee granules, and flour. Stir this constantly over medium-high heat until noticeably thicker (about 10 minutes). Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Pour into pie shell and set aside.1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk, 3 eggs, separated, 1 tablespoon all-purpose or self-rising flour, 1/4 stick butter, 2 packs instant coffee, 1 regular-size graham cracker crust, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Place egg whites in a clean mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until white and foamy. Add sugar. Continue to beat until stiff peaks form. Spoon over the top of the pie and spread to cover the top. Make sure the meringue touches the edges of the pie crust all around to prevent shrinking while baking.1/4 cup sugar, 3 eggs, separated
- Bake at 325 for 15 minutes or until meringue is golden brown. Allow the pie to cool and then cover and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled before serving.
Nutrition
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~ Proverbs 3:3
I don’t like meringue. Do I have to add it to the top of the pie?
No, that is completely up to you, and as someone else suggested you could always use a whipped topping.
I LOVE coffee nips. I started taking piano lessons when I was 6 years old. My wonderful teacher, Mrs Alice Lusk, gave me a single coffee nip as a reward for playing a piece to her high expectations. Although she has been gone for years, the taste of Coffee Nips can bring back such previous memories even now, 46 years later. I can’t wait to try this recipe!!!
What a great memory!! I hope you enjoy the pie!!
I’ve never even heard of coffee Nips but it looks like I’m going to have to find them. They sound delicious…and so does this pie. Coffee? I’m in!
Oh my goodness, if you love coffee you have to try the Coffee Nips Mary!!
Hope you are on the mend now…no more sicknesses, OK? Your recipe looks awesome, just like always!! I’ll need to make this for a church dinner so hubby can have one little piece (he loves him some coffee) and he won’t be tempted by the whole pie!! On the stocking up, I am so with you!! Of course, it is a 75+ mile (one way) trip to a big store for me, so I stock up like crazy when I do shop (like buying cases and cases of what we use a lot of)…and on the plus side, I actually end up spending less money – when I went to the grocery store every week, there were always those impulse buys that add up, or when you run in for just 1 or 2 things something else always jumps on that conveyor belt and those extra expenses really ruin your budget!! Less temptation to buy what I don’t really need always works for me!!
Oh my goodness, you are so right Susan!! The impulse buys are always what kills our budget!!
Oh my gosh —you’ve been sick and still you managed to come up with this dreamy pie !!!
You really are blessed.
When I saw the Title & picture I just gasp & nearly forgot to let it out & breath again…… can’t wait to make this. So with ya on the canned goods story…. I believe in a pantry and a freezer… fill those things up & you’ll always have something to get you thru anything.
Thanks
🙂 I hope you enjoy the pie Adeline!! Have a blessed day!
My mother used to ALWAYS keep Coffee Nips handy when she was working on kicking the smoking habit. She and my dad – both BIG coffee drinkers – loved them anyway, and they just seemed to help with kicking smoking. I love coffee, but can’t quite get excited about these Nips, but when I saw them near the top of your post, I just started feeling nostalgic about them.
AND – unless both you and Brady have twins in Huntsville, I saw you leaving the Target in Jones Valley last Saturday! My daughter and I were getting out of our car when I first saw you and I thought that’s who you were…and then I thought, “Nah, can’t be them.” but as you walked past us I just knew it was! She asked me why I didn’t speak to you when I told her who you were and I told her that I was sure you’d like to be left alone to do your own thing and not have people gawking at you and interrupting your day. But it made my day!
Oh Susan, I wish you would have spoke!! If you ever see me out and about again please promise me you will give me a holler and a hug!! I would have loved to have met you and your daughter!!
will definitely do that!!! and hope I get the opportunity!!!
I am *so* glad to see your suggestion to use common sense when it comes to expiration dates! I feel better knowing I’m not the only one who takes those dates with a grain of salt. 🙂
🙂