Creamy Custard Pie With a Mixed Berry Compote

Ingredients: Makes about 2, 7 inch pies

• 1 1/2 cups evaporated milk
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp expresso powder (optional)
• 1/4 tsp salt
• Puff Pastry Sheets (Store bought or Homemade) (I used Store bought)

• Medium saucepan
• 2 pie tins or cake tins (because of the puff pastry, the filling is a little shallow for a pie tin) (I used a 6inch cake pan in the picture)
• Whisk
• Bowl (must be able to handle heat)
• Measuring spoons
• Rolling pin
• Strainer
• Fork

1. Don't forget to defrost your puff pastry for 10-15 minutes beforehand!
2. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees
3. Lay your puff pastry on the counter and roll it out slightly with a rolling pin
4. Cover the bottom of your dish with baking paper
5. Then lift the rolled pastry with your hands, or rolling pin and fit it into your pie tin
6. Fit the pastry to the sides
7. Poke the bottom with a fork
8. And lightly press tinfoil around the inside of the crust
9. Bake in your oven for about 25 minutes (It will puff up, but don't worry)
10. Once out of the oven, poke the bottom with a fork to deflate the pastry
11. Set on the side to cool down

1. Combine the evaporated milk, heavy cream, salt and vanilla extract in a medium saucepan
2. Put the sugar, eggs, optional expresso powder in a separate mixing bowl and mix until just combined
3. Put the saucepan filled with milk onto the stove on low-medium heat and stir every so often
4. Right now you are scalding the milk, so be sure not to boil it
5. You want to see small bubbles on the edge of the pan (its okay if you see a film on top, we are going to strain it out later)
6. Once you see small bubbles, take it off the stove and turn off the heat
7. Add 1/4 of the hot mixture to your sugar, eggs, expresso powder mixture and stir well
8. Add another 1/4 of the scalded milk and stir well
9. Then tip the whole mixture into the rest of your milk and stir
10. Next strain the mixture back into your bowl to collect any bits of cooked egg or milk film
11. You might see bubbles or a white film still on top of the mixture
12. Just let it sit to let the bubbles subside around 25 minutes, or you can put it into the fridge overnight

1. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees
2. Pour your filling in the pie crust
3. Put your pie into your 400 degree oven for about 15-20 minutes
4. Then turn down your heat to 300 degrees and bake for about 35 minutes
5. After the 35 minutes, check to see if its done. Its should not be soupy and be jiggly
6. IF it is still soupy, turn the heat back up to 400 degrees and bake it in 5 minute intervals checking intermittently until set
7. Take out the oven and cool on counter, once room temperature, then put into fridge overnight or eat warm

This is optional, but you can top your pie with whatever you want

I topped it with sweet jammed fruit, but you could top it with a caramel sauce or whipped cream. Anything goes!

If you want to make the jammed fruit,

Use fresh or frozen berries, and throw about a 1/2 cup in a saucepan.

Cook it down and sprinkle about 5-6 tablespoons of sugar (or more) until the syrup bubbles and is the right consistency you want.

Let it cool and spoon it onto the top of the pie