An impossibly easy pie!

I can bake cookies, cakes and other desserts just fine, but pies are not my thing. I struggle with the pastry, always going back to the pre-made kind if I have any hopes of salvaging a pie recipe. So when I saw a recipe for Impossible Pie in the Barb's Country Tea Room cookbook I featured a few weeks back, I knew I wanted to try it.

Part of the reason was, I was hankering to use my pretty new 10-inch pie pan from Target! I don't believe I've ever owned a 10-inch pie pan before, and this recipe happened to require one.

What's so great about this recipe is that a) you don't have to make a pie crust and b) you mix everything at one whack in the blender. I was skeptical about this turning out well, so I was extra happy to slice into this pie and find that it set, cut and tasted just perfect. If you're pie-challenged yourself, be sure and add this one to your recipe box. It goes great with an afternoon cup of tea!

Impossible Pie

4 eggs
1/4 cup melted margarine (I used butter)
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups milk
1 cup coconut
1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare a 10-inch pie pan with cooking spray. Combine all ingredients in blender and blend for 3 minutes. Pour into pie pan and bake for 1 hour. Like magic, you will find the pie has a crust, a middle layer of custard, and coconut on top. Brilliant!