Recipe: Perfect Strawberry French Pie

Strawberry French Pie. Spread into bottom of pie crust. Line unpricked crust with a double thickness of heavy-duty foil or parchment. Use a store-bought graham cracker crust for even more convenience.

Piled high with delicious, juicy strawberries and topped with sweetened whipped cream, this fruity dessert is a proven crowd-pleaser. Plus, it's super easy to make! You only need seven ingredients for this recipe to come together, and one of them is trusty Pillsbury™ refrigerated pie crust, so you don't have to fuss with making pie. You can cook Strawberry French Pie using 17 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Strawberry French Pie

1. It's of The crust.
2. It's 3 cups of flour.
3. Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
4. It's 200 g of softened butter.
5. Prepare 3 of egg yolks.
6. Prepare 1 1/2 of cup powdered sugar.
7. It's Pinch of salt.
8. Prepare of Water (as needed).
9. You need of The filling (crème patissière).
10. You need 6 of egg yolks.
11. It's 1/2 cup of sugar.
12. Prepare 3 tbsp of corn starch.
13. It's Pinch of salt.
14. You need 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
15. You need 2 cups of milk.
16. It's of Strawberries cut in half.
17. Prepare of Stawberry jam.

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Strawberry French Pie instructions

1. To make the filling:.
2. Mix all filling ingredients except milk..
3. Heat the milk without boiling it then add it to the mix..
4. Add the mix on low heat and keep stirring it until it becomes a paste. Take it off the heat and stir it to remove all bumps..
5. Cover the filling with nilon foil (the foil has to directly touch the filling to prevent it from forming a thick layer). Leave till cool..
6. To make the crust:.
7. Mix all dry ingredients with the butter delicately..
8. Add the egg yolks and mix it by hand without applying force..
9. Add small bits of water at a time until the dough is homogenic and does not leave crumbs..
10. Cover it with foil and leave in refrigerator for 30 mins to 1 hour..
11. Spread the dough on a cooking sheet with a rolling pin until it is wider than the pan you're using.
12. Put the dough in your baking pan and cover all of the pan withe dough (including the sides). Gently press it on the edges to secure it into place..
13. Put a smaller pan in the middle to prevent the dough from rising and put in oven on 220 degrees celcius..
14. Mid way through the baking, remove the pan and poke holes in it with a fork then put it back in oven..
15. When done, leave it to completely cool down..
16. When cool, add a fair amount of strawberry jam all over the crust with a brush to give it a crunch..
17. Spread the cream in it then add the strawberries on top..
18. Add some strawberry jam on the strawberries with a brush..
19. Bon Appétit!.

Half of this pie's strawberries are arranged in a baked pastry shell, and the other half are crushed and cooked until thick and bubbly. This lovely glaze is then poured over the whole berries in the pastry shell. Chill this pie for several hours and serve it with mounds of whipped cream. This French Strawberry Cake will be your new favorite summertime treat. Reminiscent of a classic French Apple Cake it has a crumb that is sweet and custardy with a top that bakes up light and crumbly.