Last week, I shared our favorite whole wheat pie crust, and many of you asked what kind of pie was in the photo. Well, that, my friends, was a yummy cinnamon cream pie!
My husband has had a hankering for cinnamon lately. Every morning he mixes up a huge bowl of Greek yogurt and cottage cheese and you guessed it – CINNAMON!
He’s been wanting me to make cinnamon cream pie for a while because of a strange coincidence. Not too long ago, he was talking to a gentleman who asked where Ty and I were from originally. No one has ever heard of Ty’s home town, but EVERYONE has heard of my home town (which is just bizarre considering it is barely a dot on the map). When the man heard where I was from, he told Ty he had eaten the most amazing cinnamon cream pie while visiting there.
Apparently, my home town is KNOWN for its cinnamon cream pie; although, I never knew that growing up there. But, kids don’t really pay a lot of attention to pie, I suppose.
I’ll tell you what, though – Cinnamon Cream Pie is AMAZING! It’s this custardy, melt-in-your-mouth, pop of flavor that makes you want to just sit and enjoy every bite. This is not a gobble-it-all-up kind of pie. This is slow-down-and-savor-it sort of pie.
While I have yet to track down the recipe that made my home town famous, I do have one of my own that I’d like to share with you. This is a one-crust pie, so if you are using my whole wheat pie crust recipe, you’ll need to double this recipe to fill both crusts.
Cinnamon Cream Pie
Ingredients
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 Tbsp flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- pinch salt
- 1 egg, beaten
- 2 Tbsp butter, melted
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1½ cups milk
- 1 unbaked pie crust
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°.
- In a large bowl, combine the sugar, flour, cinnamon, and salt.
- Add in the egg, butter, and vanilla. Mix well before adding in the milk and mixing again.
- Pour every last bit into your unbaked pie crust.
- Pop it into the oven and bake at 400° for about 15 minutes, and then reduce the heat to 350° and bake another 45 minutes. (Don’t forget to cover the crust with a pie crust shield the last 15-20 minutes. This will keep your crust from burning.)
- Typically, you serve cinnamon cream pie cooled, but thankfully, it sets up quickly, and you can dig into it without it cooling completely. Warm cinnamon cream pie is divine and pairs quite nicely with a cup of coffee.
Mmmmmmm!
Elizabeth Ours says
I’ve never heard of a cinnamon cream pie! Pinned this to try later . . .
Jessica says
Sounds good. Do you mean halve the crust recipe (instead of double?)
Amy says
No, I meant double the cinnamon cream pie recipe. 🙂 I’ll go back in and clarify 🙂
Cecilia says
Hi Amy. This looks wonderful and I’d love to try it soon! I think you may have meant to “halve” the pie crust recipe, not “double” it. 😉
Thanks for the recipe!
Amy says
No, I actually meant double the cinnamon cream pie recipe – going back in to clarify that 🙂
kelly says
we are studying the states and are making meals, dishes, etc unique to each state. Which state is this “famous” for?
Angela Ayaz says
I tried this today and it smelled so delicious, but it did not set. Any ideas?
Amy says
Might have needed more time in the oven would be my guess. 🙂
Angela says
Amy,
We ended up cooking it for almost 2 hours, Still didn’t set well, and the crust was burned to bits. The inside ended up being almost carmelly. But husband still gave it his stamp of approval, so thank you. I will try again another day and see if I have better luck.
Amy says
Oh no! I’ll try this again and see what needs to be adjusted.
Cheryl Smith says
This looks SO yummy! I just wonder if there is any way a person could somehow substitute honey as the sweetener? It would definitely modify the consistency, but I was just thinking how tasty honey and cinnamon is when eaten together and since I don’t eat sugar, I wondered if there would be a way to make this pie with honey instead? Any suggestions?
Briana Thomas says
Mmm…I’d like to try to THM this… 🙂 Looks awesome.
Diana says
Hi, Amy! Thank you so much for this recipe! We finally got around to making it last night, and it was lovely. Thank you for posting!!
Diana
P.S. As another reader commented, it did take considerably longer to bake than an hour – perhaps an hour and a half. 🙂
P.P.S. I have linked to the recipe with a (really bad) picture. 🙂
Amy says
We’ve been working at revamping this recipe, and have an even better one to share soon. 😉
Diana says
Hi, Amy!! I have another cinnamon pie in the oven at the moment (yay!), and as before, it’s taking close to two hours to set. I wondered if you’d ever been able to find the tweak that I’m missing? I tried adding another egg, for more protein to help set it, but that didn’t do it.
I know it will be awesome when it comes out anyway – thanks for this wonderful recipe!
Diana J.
Amy says
I will have to look through my recipes to see if my husband ever found one that seemed “just right” – totally forgot about this post! Thank you for reminding me!
Diana says
No rush, and no worries if you don’t have it!! I just wanted to mention it, but I know how busy you are!! 🙂
Have a wonderful week!
Addison says
This is the pie I decided to whip up and throw in the oven this morning (Thanksgiving morning!) after my 2 year old helped himself to a blueberry one we were supposed to bring to a friend’s house. Thanks, Amy!
Amy says
Oh no! Gotta love 2 year olds – God made them cute on purpose! 😉
Diana says
Hi, Amy! I made this pie this past weekend. I remembered that the other two times I’d made it, I’d had trouble with the pie not setting up (i.e. staying liquid). This time I reduced the sugar from 1 cup to 1/2 cup (just a sweetness preference), and increased the flour from 1 1/2 T. to 2 T. (to help with the setting-up issue). And… it set up perfectly!! I’m not sure if the sugar reduction had anything to do with it, or if it was just the flour. However, those two adjustments took care of the consistency issue, and we were so happy – the family loves this pie. Thank you again!
Amy says
I’m going to make those adjustments to this recipe right now! And there’s more to this story…my husband ended up having the famous pie in my hometown one year during hunting season after I wrote this post, and the owner of the restaurant would not tell her recipe! But, he says this isn’t quite it! So, I’m still on the search for the EXACT recipe. I may have found it, but haven’t had a chance to try it yet.
Diana says
What a culinary adventure!! I look forward to hearing about the outcome sometime down the road! 🙂
Lauren says
Hi Amy! I know I’m super late in the game, but I was wondering if you think this could be make with a graham cracker crust?
Amy says
Hi Lauren! I don’t really know about that. I would assume so, but I have no idea for sure, so I’d say give it a try!