OLD FASHIONED CARAMEL PIE RECIPE
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A caramel lover’s dream, Old Fashioned Caramel Pie Recipe is rich and dense. This splurge-worthy dessert is totally worth the effort!
OLD FASHIONED CARAMEL PIE RECIPE
This recipe is an old Southern recipe and I don’t see it very much anymore. Old southern recipes use very basic ingredients because the majority of the people were poor. That’s why you have recipes like bread pudding and dressing that were made with day-old bread. They could not afford to waste food.
This caramel filling is a homemade filling with a smooth, creamy texture much like this Chocolate Pudding Pie.
Traditionally, Old Fashioned Caramel Pie has a meringue topping. However, I’m not a fan of meringue and top pies with whipped cream instead.
You can make a homemade pie crust. Here are two recipes
If you prefer, you can also use a store-bought pie crust.
Caramel Pie
I love the caramel pie from O’Charley’s. However, this caramel pie recipe is not the same as that one. If you’re familiar with a chocolate pudding pie, this caramel is the same consistency as it.
Instead of using sweetened condensed milk as a shortcut for caramel, you’ll actually caramelize sugar for this recipe. Between caramelizing the sugar and stirring the custard, this recipe does take a little hands-on time. I typically don’t share many recipes that require a lot of hands-on time. (Because I’m very impatient.) However, this caramel pie recipe is so worth the time.
More caramel for you!
- Salted Caramel Monkey Bread
- Homemade Caramels
- Banana Bread Blondies with Quick Caramel Frosting
- Caramel Sauce
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Old Fashioned Caramel Pie Recipe
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 9-inch pie crust homemade or store-bought
- 1 cup granulated sugar for custard
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups whole milk or 2% milk
- 4 large egg yolks beaten
- 1 cup granulated sugar for caramel
- Whipped Cream for top if desired
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Blind bake your pie crust 10 to 12 minutes. To blind bake, Line the crust with a parchment round or paper coffee filter. Fill the crust with pie weights or dried rice or beans. Bake in a preheated 375°F oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove the pie from the oven, lift out the paper and weights, and cool.
- Whisk together milk and eggs in a medium saucepan. Add the flour, salt, and 1 cup of sugar. Whisk until the mixture is smooth. Continue whisking over medium heat until the mixture thickens. This should also take around 10 minutes.
- It is best to caramelize the sugar and make the custard at the same time so neither cooks for too long. Use a low heat setting and be patient.
- Place 1 cup of sugar in a cast iron skillet. Cook the sugar over medium-low heat, stirring with a wooden spoon, until golden brown and caramelized. It should take around 10 minutes. Keep warm over very low heat until the custard is thick.
- Add caramelized sugar to the custard, whisking continuously. If the caramel hardens, just continue whisking over medium heat until it has melted and the mixture is smooth and thick. This should take 5-8 minutes.
- Pour custard into the baked pie crust and refrigerate until chilled and set. This should take 1 to 2 hours. Serve with whipped cream if desired.
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
Our family recipe list using 1/2 cup sugar for Carmel. I tried it just as written and was to much Carmel for us will stick with 1/2 c instead of full cup. This is first recipe I ever found that was close to our family recipe. Was still very good, also we add a tsp of vanilla to ours. Try it!
Could you use self-rising flour?
Love this recipe it is so close to mama’s recipe. Thank you for sharing. 🙏🙏
Love it! But, I didn’t ask my family before hand if they liked caramel pudding. Apparently no one likes it but me, so it’s going to be a chore to eat a whole pie to myself. Next time I will 1/2 it.
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There is no flour in the ingredients. would you be kind as to give us the flour measurment.
It’s listed…1/2 cup.
My grandma made a very similar recipe and it was always fantastic. Thanks for sharing!
Did I miss where the salt goes in?
Yes, you did. Shows to add along with the flour.