>I'm going to spend about $31 to make the recipe on America's Test
>Kitchen for coconut cream pie, so I definitely do not want to settle
>for anything less than the best tasting ingredients. I'm going to use
>real vanilla and real cream too


Best testing ingredients?.....
..IMO thats funny...as that is a relative term...<grin>

I suggest you have to practice that recipe first before you go for the
big day....and
a final word
Keep in mind the ; Murphy's Law