Easy, No Bake Millionaire Pie Recipe (Furr's Copycat)

Table of Contents

• 🎥 Video
• 🧾 Ingredients
• 🔪 Instructions
• 📖 Recipe
• 📖 Variations
• 💭 Things to know
• 👩‍🍳 FAQs
• 📚 Related recipes
• 💬 Comments

🎥 Video

If you grew up in Texas in the ‘60s, chances are you’ve met this pie before—probably at a church potluck, sitting pretty next to a bowl of nuclear green Jell-O. It’s creamy, nutty, tropical, and takes five minutes flat to throw together. No baking, no drama—just sweet nostalgia in a graham cracker crust. It’s basically ambrosia salad’s cooler cousin who showed up in pearls and never left the buffet table. One bite and you’ll be makin’ memories and side-eying anyone who asks for the last slice.

Love these easy, vintage recipes? Try this fluffy pineapple pie from my mom's 1941 Better Homes and Garden cookbook!

🧾 Ingredients

Use a premade pie crust or homemade graham cracker crust. Out of graham crackers? Pie crust is just as tasty when made with shortbread cookies or Pecan Sandies! If you like pie a little less sweet, you can use a regular all butter pie crust.

🔪 Instructions

1. In a large bowl, combine the coconut, crushed pineapple, and sweetened condensed milk.
2. Stir in the maraschino cherries, pecans, fresh lemon juice, and pineapple juice. Add the cherry juice to adjust the color.
3. Gently fold in the whipped topping in two additions.
4. Spoon the creamy pie filling into the shell and chill. Top with additional whipped topping just before serving.

📖 Recipe

📖 Variations

• Some people like to use marshmallows instead of shredded coconut.
• Substitute the toasted pecans with macadamia nuts, if you prefer.
• Stir in some mandarin orange slices for an extra citrus flavor.
• Feel free to use Cool Whip from the store or make your own whipped cream using the link in the recipe card below.
• Make this delicious pie into bars to serve at potlucks. Simply press the crumbs into the bottom of a 13x9-inch pan and double the filling.
• Some people call millionaire pie "Pina Colada pie." Make an adults-only version by swapping the pineapple juice with rum.
• Garnish the top with little cocktail umbrellas before serving for a cute finish.

💭 Things to know

Expert Tip: Lemon juice helps thicken no-bake pie recipes (similar to my lemon icebox pie.) You can't leave it out! If you really need a swap, lime juice works in a pinch and will taste just as good, too.

• Drained pineapple is key—too much liquid and your filling won't set. First, let the juice run out of the can. Then, dump the pineapple into a sieve and press it down with a thick layer of paper towels.
• The maraschino cherry juice gives the pie its pretty pink color. Add more or less depending on how you want it to look.
• Watch nuts carefully when toasting—they go from pale to charred in an instant. Check below the recipe for a general time frame for the nuts.
• Prepping the pie in advance? Wait to add the extra whipped topping until just before you are ready to serve.
• Put the pie in the freezer for about 45 minutes before you want to cut it so the slices are pretty and clean.
• This million-dollar pie recipe is very rich, so you can technically cut it into ten servings and no one will complain!

👩‍🍳 FAQs

Whether you call it Millionaire Pie, Pina Colada Pie, Hawaiian Pie, or something else -- this old-fashioned no-bake recipe is absolutely the best!

Be sure to make it soon. And let me know in the comments if this is one of those recipes that was part of your childhood...

This exquisite bite of Americana is, or was, a popular dessert at Furr's Cafeterias in Texas during the 1970s and before. They may still serve it - I honestly haven't been to a Furr's in years.

Actually I think we went to Furr's when we were in Fort Worth and Wyatt's Cafeteria when we were in Dallas....

It doesn't matter - they both had this wonderfully creamy pie.

I always thought it was called "million dollar pie" and I felt special that Dad spend that kind of money on me - until I learned to read and found it it was something like $1.59!

📚 Related recipes

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• Creamy, rich, and tropical, Pineapple Upside-Down Cheesecake combines two classic desserts into one decadent, delicious confection.
• When the temps get high, don't turn on the oven. Strawberry Ice Cream Crunch Cake tastes sweet and refreshing like your fave childhood treat!

First published: May 2018. Last updated June 13, 2023 for images and readability.