Buko pie is a Filipino pastry that is made from a young coconut which is usually served in a corporate cocktail party by Catering Services. Other culinarians define buko pie as a custard dessert that is similar to a coconut cream pie because they have similar taste. The difference between the two is that buko pie has a top crust and the coconut cream pie has a whipped cream on top.
The usual ingredients of buko pie are pie crust, fresh buko slices, sugar, buko juice, coconut milk and cornstarch. These are the important ingredients when you want to make a buko pie. The young coconut gives the buko pie a rich and unique flavor that can everyone really enjoy. Using young coconut makes buko pie closely to a cream pie. In addition, others use condensed milk instead of sugar to give the pie a richer flavor.
Condensed milk is an additional ingredient to make a buko pie sweeter and flavorful. Buko pie is also similar to macapuno pie, because macapuno is commonly used in ice cream and cakes because of its jelly-like texture. Aside from Laguna province you can also buy buko pie in some areas of Batangas and Tagaytay. There are many vendors of buco pie in these three provinces.
We all know that majority of people love to eat sweet food and sometimes, sweet food is our stress reliever. Buco pie is just only one example of our sweet delicacies. Other Filipino sweet delicacies such as espasol, yema, puto, kutsinta, ube halaya and etc. are the reasons why other foreigners keep coming back here in the Philippines.
