Substitues for cream?

Tonnina

I'm making pumpkin pie from scratch this year and I found a wonderful recipe with few ingredients... But It calls for 12oz of cream. All the other pumpkin pie recipes I've been looking at call for evaporated milk. Can I sub evaporated milk for the cream or will it totally wreck the pie? I've never done this before...

aa1440

You can substitute anything you want. I may be wrong but, the cream is better for you than the evaporated milk. I would even use almond milk instead of evaporated milk. I'm partial to almond milk. It would add a little flavor. Good luck.

DrBorkBork

I just made a pumpkin pie fill with coconut milk (not the silk stuff, but Native Forest/Thai Kitchen). Way yummy!

kmengen

I also have made pumpkin pie with coconut milk, the canned kind, I believe, for a friend who has dairy allergies, and it turned out better than the "normal" pie. Go ahead and substitute.

premiumchilenita

just a heads up, coconut cream/milk is still very high in fat. I've started to use Philidelphia cream for desserts, it has 50-60% off the real stuff and it tastes almost identical. And it's quite thick like cream but far less calories.

CakeFit21

Can you post the recipe? It may need the fat. Are there eggs? My recipe calls for 1/2 cup of cream I think. Personally, I would NOT sub almond milk in a custard pie on a day like Thanksgiving. You just don't know how it's going to go.

Tonnina

Can you post the recipe? It may need the fat. Are there eggs? My recipe calls for 1/2 cup of cream I think. Personally, I would NOT sub almond milk in a custard pie on a day like Thanksgiving. You just don't know how it's going to go.

Here's the ingredients:
Pumpkin Pie from Scratch

1 sugar pumpkin
2 eggs
12oz cream
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves

CakeFit21

Can you post the recipe? It may need the fat. Are there eggs? My recipe calls for 1/2 cup of cream I think. Personally, I would NOT sub almond milk in a custard pie on a day like Thanksgiving. You just don't know how it's going to go.

Here's the ingredients:
Pumpkin Pie from Scratch

1 sugar pumpkin
2 eggs
12oz cream
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves

I think you could sub for evaporated milk. I've just looked at several recipes, (on martha stewart if you want to look too) and they are almost identical to yours except for using 12oz of evap milk instead of cream. (Most of them have 1/4 cup more sugar)

I think it'll be great!