Quick Caramel Pie Recipe

 The gooey pie below may be served with or without a topping.  For pie topping, use whipped cream or cool whip spread on the entire chilled pie or add a dollup onto of each slice.  Another topping option could be chopped pecans sprinkled over top of caramel, mini chocolate chips instead of or along with pecans, or simply a little powdered sugar sifted on top.  A few recipes use pre-baked crust or graham cracker crust instead, but this requires cooking the ingredients together until it thickens and then pouring into crust, then immediately chilling for 4 hours or more to set the caramel filling.

Quick Caramel Pie

Ingredients:

1 cup milk 
4 Tablespoons flour 
1 cup brown sugar 
3 Tablespoons butter 
1 teaspoon vanilla 
1 egg, beaten
8-inch pie/pastry shell 

Steps:

1. In saucepan on low heat, melt sugar and butter together. 
2. Add milk and flour until caramel colored and slightly thickens.
3. Remove from heat, add vanilla and egg.
4. Pour filling into pie shell, spread evenly, and bake at 350 degrees until edges of shell are golden or according to pie crust recommendations.
5. If pie does not set as desired for slicing, chill it before serving.

For a cool creamy caramel pie, try Easy Caramel Pie made with cream cheese and prepared caramel sauce or the decadent no-bake version QuickCaramel Pie.  If 2 pies are desired without doubling recipes, consider making Southern Brown Sugar Pie instead.