Cream pie

Cream pie

A slice of coconut cream pie topped with whipped cream and toasted coconut
Place of origin	United States[1]
Main ingredients	Pie crust, milk, cream, flour, sugar, eggs
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A cream pie, crème pie, or creme pie is a type of pie filled with a rich custard or pudding that is made from milk, cream, sugar, wheat flour, and eggs^[2] and typically topped with whipped cream.

Cream pies are usually what is used for pieing, or throwing a pie in someone's face.

One notable version is the banana cream pie. Cream pies are made in many other flavors, including vanilla, lemon, lime, peanut butter, coconut, and chocolate.^[2]

Most cream pies have a custard filling and a whipped cream topping. The custard filling is related to crème patissière, a key component of French cakes, and tarts. It is a one-crust pie, where the crust covers the bottom and sides but not the top. The crust may be a standard pastry pie crust, or made with crumbled cookies or a graham cracker crust.

Most cream pies are made with a cooked custard filling. The "Magic Lemon Cream Pie", invented at Borden and attributed to their fictional spokesperson, Jane Ellison, is instead thickened by the room-temperature curdling of a mixture of sweetened condensed milk, eggs, and lemon juice. This later evolved into Key lime pie.^[3]

Pieing, or throwing a pie—usually a cream pie—has its origins in the "pie in the face" gag from slapstick comedy. It appears on stage in the music hall sketches of the English theatre impresario Fred Karno.^[4] The practice is also used to express disapproval of politicians or other public figures and is sometimes done lightheartedly at charity events, where someone in a position of authority will volunteer to receive a pie in the face from the winning bidder.

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• Boston cream pie is an American cake that in the past has been referred to locally as a chocolate cream pie
• Sugar cream pie is an American custard pie