Amaretto Cream Pie

Try our Amaretto Cream Pie alongside a luscious, custardy amaretto filling poured into a baked almond cookie crust.

Way dorsum inwards 2011 I posted a pie recipe each calendar week for the entire year. I developed an Amaretto Cream Pie recipe for the ‘year of the pie’ extravaganza as well as shared it equally No. ii inwards the lineup. My master copy recipe was a skillful assay to recreate a really particular pie nosotros used to savor at the Mt. Vernon Restaurant inwards Chattanooga, Tennessee. Even though I’ve ever been a baker, alongside pies equally my signature specialty, I never missed a adventure to purchase a whole restaurant-made Amaretto Cream Pie from the Mt. Vernon for particular occasions, similar my ain birthday!

 

Since then, I’ve tweaked as well as tested dissimilar versions of this pie trying to come upward up alongside the winning combination that made the (now closed) Mt. Vernon Amaretto Cream Pie famous.

Unfortunately, the Mt. Vernon eating theatre shut subsequently 63 wonderful years leaving a void for those of us who loved their pies, chicken livers as well as other homestyle favorites. If you’re similar me as well as want they’d shared their super-secret recipe alongside the basis subsequently they closed, as well as thus you’ve come upward to the correct place.  I don’t stimulate got the actual recipe (does anybody?) but I intend you’ll notice this Amaretto Cream Pie a delicious copycat. I’ve made many, many versions of this pie alongside rich custard fillings as well as diverse amounts of amaretto, as well as fifty-fifty tried a baked version similar to my Key Lime pie. All inwards all, this is the best Amaretto Cream Pie Recipe to engagement as well as worthy of beingness shared 1 time again!

 

The distinctive sweetness amaretto season is subtle, but non hidden, as well as non at all boozy.

Amaretto liqueur is a sweetness Italian creation made from almonds, as well as sometimes peach or apricot stones. You tin savor amaretto equally role of a mixed drink, inwards coffee, alongside cream over ice, or only poured into a glass. I similar to serve it chilled, conduct up, alongside an almond flavored dessert similar this Amaretto Cream Pie. Try a footling amaretto drizzled over vanilla H2O ice cream; what a treat! If y'all similar to experiment, y'all tin fifty-fifty construct your ain amaretto at abode using THIS easy recipe. Personally I’m partial to the Disaronno construct of amaretto liqueur. Their website has enough of cocktail recipes too, cheque it out!

 

If y'all prefer a non-alcoholic dessert, assay using amaretto extract.

Amaretto Extract is going to live difficult to notice inwards your neighborhood grocery store. Don’t waste matter your fourth dimension trying to hunt it downwardly when nosotros stimulate got Amazon to the rescue! If y'all desire to occupation extract instead of amaretto liqueur, cheque out the links at the bottom of this post service to purchase from Amazon.

 

 

Our Amaretto Cream Pie recipe starts alongside a crust made alongside store-bought cookies, sliced almonds as well as melted butter.

The origin Amaretto Cream Pie I posted had a measure pastry crust.  To live a skillful copycat of the famous mystery pie, I knew I’d stimulate got to come upward up alongside a cookie crust that could competitor the 1 made yesteryear the Mt. Vernon Restaurant. After testing several store-bought cookie brands, nosotros lastly settled on this recipe made alongside Nabisco’s Lorna Doone Shortbread Cookies, sliced almonds as well as melted butter. The crust ingredients are pulsed inwards a nutrient processor as well as thus pressed into a pie plate. The uncomplicated mixture is refrigerated until set, as well as thus baked for 10 minutes.

 

After many, many experiments as well as gustation testings, I intend this Amaretto Cream Pie is an absolute winner! It may non live an exact match, but for those of us that even thus retrieve as well as crave that iconic creamy treat, this volition produce nicely.

 

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Amaretto Cream Pie

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

30 mins

Total Time

1 hr

 

This pie has a luscious, custardy filling alongside a subtle Amaretto season inwards a uncomplicated baked almond cookie crust

Course:

Dessert, Pie

Servings: 8

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

For the shortbread-almond crust:

• 
  5
  ounces
  shortbread cookies
  (20 - Lorna Doone cookies)
  


• 
  1
  cup
  sliced almonds
  


• 
  4
  tablespoons
  unsalted butter,
  melted
  

For the amaretto filling:

• 
  3
  large egg yolks
  


• 
  3/4
  cup
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  1/3
  cup
  cornstarch
  


• 
  1
  tablespoon
  all-purpose flour
  


• 
  2 3/4 
  cups
  whole milk
  


• 
  1
  tablespoon
  unsalted butter
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  vanilla extract
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  amaretto liqueur
  

For the topping:

• 
  1
  cup
  heavy whipping cream
  


• 
  3
  tablespoons
  powdered sugar
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  vanilla or almond extract
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  sliced almonds for garnish
  

Instructions

To gear upward the crust:

1. 
   

   Heat oven to 350F. In the bowl of a nutrient processor, pulse the cookies until crumbly. Add the almond as well as pulse 4-5 times inwards quick bursts. Add the melted butter as well as pulse exactly until combined.

   
   


2. 
   
   Firmly press the crumb mixture into bottom as well as upward the sides of 9-inch pie plate. Refrigerate until firm, virtually twenty to xxx minutes. Bake until lightly browned as well as set, virtually 10 minutes. Cool piece preparing the filling.
   
   

To gear upward the filling:

1. 
   
   In a pocket-sized mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks until blended. Set aside.
   
   


2. 
   
   In a medium saucepan combine the sugar, salt, cornstarch as well as flour. Whisk inwards the milk.
   
   


3. 
   

   Cook the milk mixture over medium heat, stirring constantly until it thickens as well as starts to boil. (This may stimulate got virtually fifteen minutes) Boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly as well as thus take from the estrus (leave the stove-top turned on).

   
   


4. 
   
   While whisking constantly, tardily drizzle one-half the hot mixture into the beaten egg yolks. Add the blended egg mixture dorsum into the saucepan alongside the remaining hot custard. Return to the estrus as well as boil ii minutes more, stirring constantly to foreclose scorching. Reduce the estrus if needed.
   
   


5. 
   
   Remove from the estrus as well as blend inwards the butter, vanilla extract as well as Amaretto. Pour the filling into the prepared crust. Cool to room temperature as well as thus refrigerate for at to the lowest degree 8 hours, or overnight.
   
   

To gear upward the topping:

1. 
   
   In a large mutual coldness mixing bowl using an electrical mixer, vanquish the cream on medium speed until soft peaks form. Add the powdered saccharide as well as vanilla as well as vanquish on high until delineate of piece of work solid peaks form. Dollop the whipped cream on overstep of the pie filling. Garnish alongside sliced almonds.
   
   

Recipe Notes

To assistance laissez passer lofty, fluffy whipped cream, chill your bowl as well as beaters inwards the freezer earlier mixing.

Keep pie refrigerated. 

 

For a non-alcoholic recipe assay Amaretto Extract

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Here are a few to a greater extent than of our favorite pie recipes y'all mightiness enjoy:

 

Double Chocolate Cream Pie – alongside a sweet, rich silky filling as well as an piece of cake to construct cookie crumb crust, this pie is completely moan-worthy! Click HERE to larn the recipe.

 

 

Hoosier Sugar Cream Pie – Dating dorsum to the 1800’s – this uncomplicated pie is even thus pop as well as delicious! Click HERE to larn the recipe.

Originally posted Jan 2011, updated August 2019

Thanks thus much for stopping by!  Tricia

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