Grandma’s Old-Fashioned Walnut Cream Pie with Graham Cracker Crust
Some recipes have a way of living rent-free in your heart for decades. This walnut cream pie is exactly that kind of dish — the sort that transports you straight back to a holiday gathering the moment the first bite hits your tongue. With its buttery, golden graham cracker crust and silky, sweet cream filling studded with chopped walnuts, this pie is the kind of dessert that disappears from the table before anyone even realizes it was there.
This is a true heirloom recipe, the kind passed down not always in writing but in memory — in the smell of a warm kitchen, in the sight of a grandmother’s hands pressing a crust into a pie dish. If you’ve been searching for that nostalgic, old-fashioned walnut cream pie you remember from childhood holidays, this is the one. Let’s bring it back to life.
Ingredients
- 1 and 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar (for crust)
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (optional, for crust)
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar (for filling)
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 and 1/2 cups whole milk
- 3 large egg yolks, lightly beaten
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter (for filling)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup chopped walnuts, lightly toasted
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