Sour Cream Lemon Pie
By: Bunny Engle
Published: Saturday, November 27, 2010 - 6:11pm

Ingredients




Ingredients
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup cornstarch
2 cups half-and-half
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
1 lemon, zest of
6 egg yolks
1 1/2 cups sour cream
1 baked pie shell

Preparation

1 Directions 2 In a saucepan, mix sugar, cornstarch, half-and-half, butter, lemon juice and zest, and egg yolks. 3 Stir over medium heat until mixture thickens and boils. 4 Remove from heat. 5 Add sour cream and mix well. 6 Pour filling into pie shell. 7 Cover with plastic wrap and cool at room temperature until set

About


I am a closet Tasty Kake Lemon Pie lover, there I said it, it's out in the open. I feel better now. For those of you who don't know what they are, it's a company that makes treats, you know like Little Debbie or Hostess. There everywhere in Pennsylvania, staring me in the face, beckoning me, calling my name. I have no will power, am I ashamed.......not!! These things are awesome! So awesome in fact that I set out on a search to find a recipe that would be as close as possible to my little hand held treats. Inside of these little pies is a smooth soft as silk pie filling that is not an over powering lemon but just enough, the filling is more of a pudding and very pale yellow. Not like a a Lemon Meringue Pie, oh no better. So my search started, I knew I didn't want lemon Meringue, the filling I was after had to have milk in it to give it that pale yellow color. After looking at many recipes.......I saw it! There it was on RecipeZaar!! Ok not the copy kat recipe, but a recipe that looked and sounded like it could be something close! I'm reading through it...half and half, lots of egg yolks , sour cream, yeah this sounds good , and easy. Make a pie crust , through all the ingredients for the pie filling in one pot on the stove and add the sour cream after it's cooked and thickened. Easy!! The recipe said to wait 4 hours after you put the filling in the baked pie crust, it was a very long 4 hours. It was long cause I just knew it was gonna be good, and it was. Oh yes it was, it was as close to those little treats as I'm ever gonna come. The Half and Half, the lemon and the sour cream gave this pie a wonderful tang, not to sweet, not to tart just enough. I could have sat with a spoon and just ate the filling! I didn't have Half and Half so I made my own with 3/4 cup milk and 1/4 cup heavy cream, that makes one cup of Half and Half the recipe called for 2 cups so I just doubled it. It worked just fine.  If you love lemon like I love lemon try this pie!!