French Silk Pie, Cooked

Steve_G's Note:

All the silky richness of the original recipe with a COOKED filling to guard against possible food poisoning associated with raw eggs.

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 8

Yield: 1.0 pie

• 1 cup whipping cream
• 6 ounces semisweet chocolate pieces
• 1/3 cup butter
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 egg yolks, beaten
• 3 tablespoons whipping cream
• 1 baked 9 inch pie shell
• whipped cream (for serving)
• chocolate curls (for garnish)

Directions:

1. In a heavy 2-quart saucepan, combine the 1 cup whipping cream, chocolate pieces, butter and sugar.
2. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, till chocolate is melted.
3. About 10 minutes.
4. Remove pan from heat.
5. Gradually stir about half of the hot mixture into the beaten egg yolks.
6. Return egg mixture to saucepan.
7. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, till mixture is slightly thickened and almost bubbly-- 3 to 5 minutes.
8. Remove saucepan from heat.
9. Stir in whipping cream.
10. Place saucepan in a bowl of ice water, stir occasionally till mixture stiffens and becomes hard to stir (20 minutes).
11. Transfer chocolate mixture to a medium mixing bowl.
12. Beat the cooled chocolate mixture with an electric mixer on Medium to High speed until light and fluffy 2 or 3 mins.
13. Spread filling in a baked pastry shell.
14. Cover and chill pie 4-5 hours or until set Best served within 24 hours, but will last 3-4 days if stored properly.
15. Serve with whipped cream and a garnish with chocolate curls.

Reviews

[gatormom1972]

I made this last year and it was wonderful. I am going to make it every year at Holidays. Not too sweet. All I can say is if you made it and it turned out wrong then maybe you should stick to frozen pies. It was the easiest pie to make! Yum. I used regular pie crust and one with oreo crust. Both were well liked. :)

[lifeservant_1216178]

The recipe was AWESOME! I was too glad to find one with cooked eggs. I did modify somewhat. At the step where you add the three tablespoons of whipping cream, I added an additional tablespoon. After I cooked the mixture, then cooled it, and removed it from the freezer; as I began to beat it for the 2-3 minutes it resembled ganache (too chocolaty for a french silk pie) so, I decided to add more whipping cream and beat it longer until the mixture was lighter in color and fluffier in texture. All I can say...it turned out very good and very close to Baker Squares, if not better.

I used 4 oz. of semi-sweet chocolate and 2-3oz. of dark chocolate 65% cocoa, as well as, oreo cookie crumb crust. Thanks for the post.

[BbyBluThghHghs]

Made this for my husband for Valentine's Day weekend. Unfortunately my pie wasn't so silky after having been refrigerated. I was looking for more of a mousse consistency and got a pretty hard, solid filling that I wasn't too thrilled about (the filling was beat until fluffy, as directed). While it still tasted good it wasn't what I was hoping for. I did swap the pie crust from a dough crust to a cookie crust and there were no complaints on that :). Good luck with the recipe!