Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Press one wonton into each well of a cupcake pan (or use a mini-muffin pan), forming a cup. If you have a wooden dowel, use it to help shape the mini ones. Bake the cups for about 9 minutes, or until golden brown. Let the cups cool in the pan on a wire rack.
While the cups are baking, you can toast your coconut in a 12-inch skillet on the stove. Pour the coconut flakes into the skillet and stir them over medium-high heat until they are just getting golden. It should take five minutes for unsweetened, and less for sweetened coconut. Transfer the coconut to a bowl to cool.
For the filling, place your coconut milk in a medium sauce pan. Fill the empty coconut milk can with half and half and pour that into the pan as well. Add the eggs, sugar, corn starch and salt. Over medium-low heat, whisk the ingredients and stir constantly until the mixture thickens and bubbles. It will take around 16 minutes, depending on your pan. Turn off the heat and stir in the vanilla and coconut extracts.
Using a scoop if you have one, place 1 ½ tablespoons of filling into each cooled cup (regardless of whether you used the mini-muffin pan or the cupcake pan). Chill the filled cups in the refrigerator while you make your whipped cream.
For the whipped cream, beat the whipping cream and confectioners sugar in a clean, medium stainless steel bowl with a mixer until the cream is about half way to being stiff. Add in the coconut extract and continue beating until stiff peaks form.
When the coconut filling is chilled and set in the cups (mine took maybe 15 minutes), top each pie cup with some whipped cream, using a pastry bag to pipe it on if you wish. Then, sprinkle some toasted coconut onto each pie cup. Keep the filled cups refrigerated until you're ready to serve them. Refrigerate leftovers.
Notes
The pie cups are best served within the first couple of hours of being made, for maximum crispiness. You can make the filling and toast your coconut the day before, but bake the wontons and make your whipped cream the day of serving.There are 48 wonton wrappers in a package. You can bake the extras and fill them with leftover whipped cream, or freeze them for up to two months.If you wish to make a traditional coconut cream pie, double the filling.