Chocolate Buttermilk Pie

Sinful and sinfully easy to whip up! The chocolate adds a nice twist to the traditional buttermilk pie. Recipe courtesy of Sandra Lee's Semi-Homemade Cooking 2 cookbook.

• Ready In: 1 hr 40 mins
• Serves: 8-10

Ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups  semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 1⁄4 cup flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 6  eggs
• 1  cup buttermilk
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons vanilla extract
• 1 (9 inch)  deep dish pie shells
•  Cool Whip, for garnish (optional)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325°F.
2. In a double boiler, melt the chocolate chips over a low heat, stir constantly until smooth.
3. In a mixing bowl, whisk sugar, flour and salt to combine.
4. In another mixing bowl, combine eggs, buttermilk and vanilla; add sugar mixture and beat with a mixer until well combined.
5. Pour the batter into the pie crust (you may have leftover batter).
6. Bake, on the middle oven rack, for 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 25 minutes or until the pie is crisp on the top and/or inserted knife into center of pie comes out with just a little bit of moist chocolate.
7. Cool; refrigerate immediately if not eating pie until later or let pie stand at room temperature for 1 hour, prior to eating.
8. Garnish with Cool Whip, if desired.