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["Make the pastry cream: Put milk and coconut in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat.", "Scrape seeds from vanilla bean and add both seeds and bean to saucepan.", "Bring mixture to a gentle simmer, stirring occasionally.", "In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, sugar, and flour.", "While whisking, drizzle about 1/3 of the hot milk mixture into egg mixture, then slowly whisk egg-milk mixture back into saucepan.", "Cook over medium-high heat, whisking, until pastry cream thickens and begins to bubble, 4 to 5 minutes.", "Remove from heat, stir in butter, and discard vanilla bean.", "Spoon hot pastry cream into a bowl and set in a larger bowl of ice and cold water, stirring occasionally, until cooled to room temperature.", "Cover with plastic wrap, pressing it directly onto surface (to prevent a skin from forming) and chill until cold, at least 3 hours.", "Fill the pies: Carefully remove baked shells from brioche molds.", "Spoon pastry cream into shells, filling each a little more than halfway.", "With an electric mixer, whip cream with sugar and vanilla until it holds stiff peaks.", "Fills a pastry bag fitted with a large star tip (no.", "6) with whipped cream and pipe a double layer of cream onto each pie, or simply spoon it on (use all the cream--the pies should look like beehive hairdos).", "Garnish the pies: With a vegetable peeler, scrape wide curls or shavings from the chunk of white chocolate.", "Sprinkle curls or shavings over pies, dividing evenly, and top with toasted coconut.", "Serve immediately.", "NOTES: Pastry cream can be made ahead and kept, refrigerated, for two days; unbaked, formed pastry shells keep, frozen, a few weeks.", "The baked shells can be filled with the pastry cream several hours ahead, then topped with whipped cream and garnishes just before serving.", """Chip""--or large-shred--coconut, which is sold at natural-foods stores and Whole Foods Markets, looks like little curls and makes the prettiest garnish, but regular shredded coconut works just fine.", "Toast coconut in a 350-degree oven until golden, 10 to 15 minutes."]
