Kelly's French Silk Chocolate Pie

My Aunt Karen has been making this recipe for years. I finally asked her for the recipe and was surprised at how easy it is to make. You absolutely MUST continue beating the butter until the sugar granules disappear into it (5 minutes), and then you must beat each egg in seperately (approx 5 minutes each.) This makes it time consuming, and practically impossible to whip by hand. In fact, a Kitchen Aid type mixer will really work the best, but I have also done it with an electric hand mixer in a large bowl. Other than the time involved, it is very simple and completely delicious. My husband says it is "the height of decadence" and everyone I serve it to asks me for the recipe. Try it!

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I ate the whole thing in 12 hours. A mistake. Don't do that. This pie requires that someone ELSE serves you a small slice and hides the rest.

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Make sure you beat the eggs at least 8 minutes each time one is put into the bowl...I use the whipping paddle on my KitchenAid, instead of the regular one...made the filling higher and creamier...this was made for an event tonight and so many people asked about it...Great recipe! Served it in an Oreo cookie crust...with whipped cream on top. People wanted to take it home with them on a plate...after eating a piece, they wanted more!

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Great light but rich pie. I used the paddle on my Kitchen Aide but switched to the whisk when adding the eggs. Made for a light but so good pie. Made a graham cracker crust which was great but may try chocolate next time.

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I've made this pie about 30 times now, over the past couple of years. It's one that's requested for every holiday and get together...by my church, my family, my friends, etc. This is the #1 best recipe I've ever stumbled upon. I did make it the last time using semi-sweet chocolate, as I'd run out of unsweetened and it was good, but definitely unsweetened is the way to go!

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I've been making this exact recipe for more than 25 years! I do sometimes add an extra half ounce of chocolate for a deeper color and flavor. I like it best with a real pie crust and serve whipped cream on the side if at all.. It needs to chill for much more than an hour, especially if you double it like I always do. (My recipe says chill overnight.) I highly recommend using a Metro blade on your KitchenAid; it does a fantastic job of scraping the bowl and dissolving the sugar. With it I only scrape manually twice, once before the second egg and then again at the end. These days I only serve this to close family and friends and maybe would try pasteurized eggs if serving to someone who is immunocompromised... but as far as I know in all the dozens (hundreds?) of times I've made it no one has gotten sick.

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5 stars accross the board! This is one easy pie and although I wasn't crazy about the raw egg I still followed the recipe. I did use semi-sweet baking chocolate, only because I picked it up by mistake. It still tuned out awesome. My hubby loved it and said he's not crazy about french silk pies but loved this one. Thanks for a great recipe!

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Chocolate lovers--take note! This is over-the-top rich and delicious! I made this for our Christmas Day dessert and we LoVeD it! I followed Faux Chef Lael's tips to bring it to perfection: beat the butter and sugar a good 5 minutes, then beat each egg in for 5 minutes. Sooo good! Thanks Wildflour!

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This pie is really good and very rich! A small slice goes a long way. I took it to a bbq and people loved it.

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I made a double pie for Mother's Day - and I really liked it. I used cage free organic eggs (which I almost always do) because the idea of a pie with raw eggs kind of freaked me out a little. I made it with a stand mixer, beating 5 minutes on high using the whisk attachment after adding each PAIR of eggs (4 eggs total, 2 at a time). It came out really, really good. I couldn't bring myself to tell anyone that was eating it that there were raw eggs in it, but I felt a little guilty for not telling them. But, it was just wonderful. Thank you!

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This is just perfect! I doubled the recipe and poured it into a deep dish homemade graham cracker crust. Also, I made my own sweetened whipped cream to top the pie, not Cool Whip. I used my Kitchen Aid mixer and it made this a breeze compared to when I made it with my hand mixer! So happy to have found this amazing crowd pleasing pie recipe!

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Very good

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Awesome! We loved it! Light and rich at the same time! I didn't use Cool Whip; I whipped my own whipping cream and sprinkled cocoa/confectioner's sugar mixture over it. Definitely goes on the list to make again! Go Steelers!

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Excellent french silk recipe and so easy to make! I crave this pie! Thank you for sharing, Wildflour!

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This is by far the best pie I have ever made! My DH loves this pie. He fell in love with french silk ice cream so I searched for the actual pie and here it is! It is perfect the way it is except DH likes the chocolate chunks placed on top of the pie instead of chocolate shavings!!!

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LOVED this recipe-- it was excellent and really came out beautiful with some chocolate shavings on top!

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I would give it more stars if I could! We made 19 of these pies for our church's dinner theatre fund raiser. We used Egg Beaters instead of whole eggs because they are pasteurized and I was concerned about the raw eggs. We also used whipped cream instead of Cool Whip. Everyone loved them. None of the plates came back with any pie left on them. Great recipe. We froze them and served them just slightly icy.

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This recipe is perfect! My inlaws are coming down from out of state tonight and I wanted to make an orange chocolate silk pie for my FIL. I zested 1 orange and folded it into the melted chocolate. Perfection! The trick really is to beat the eggs at the end and separately for quite a long time to get the height right for the pie. Thanks for sharing such a great recipe.

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This pie never set up. After an hour we checked and it was still liquid. Over night still liquid. I did everything the recipe said, from now on I will read reviews before wasting my time and money!

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Great!

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