Hello hi everyone! Wesley here. aToday we’re getting back to our series on local Hawaiian classics with a shot at one of my favorite pies from my childhood, which is the chocolate coconut “haupia” cream pie found at the legendary “Ted’s Bakery” in Oahu. For those unfamiliar, Ted’s bakery is a local institution dating back to the mid 80s on the North Shore of Oahu, and is well known for sporting a wide variety menu items to serve to local surfers and beach goers, but by far their most legendary item is their “chocolate haupia” pie. For those unfamiliar, the haupia chocolate cream pie is a multilayer cream pie with a thick and rich dark chocolate cream bottom layer, a coconut cream “haupia” center layer, and a whipped coconut cream topping.

We’ll be making use of favorite flakey pie crust recipe courtesy of Bon Appetit, but of course if you’re looking for shortcuts, premade crusts are always ok in my book. Finally as with pretty much every baking adventure on this channel, there were MANY mistakes made in my attempts, which we’ll absolutely be touching on as well. Hope you try it.

It will be out on Friday December 10, 2021, so bookmark the recipe here, and be sure to subscribe and hit the bell on YouTube to get notified when it’s out!

Woo Can Cook is a series where we reproduce fun foods and recipes from my childhood. Some of them are authentically Chinese and/or pan-Asian, but a lot of them are odd Americanized versions that I inherited from my parents and grandparents while growing up in the Bay Area/California.

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