Chocolate Cream Pie
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
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Crust
- 2 cups vanilla wafer crumbs
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1⁄3 cup sugar
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Filling
- 9 ounces best-quality bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 2⁄3 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup cornstarch
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 6 large egg yolks
- 4 1⁄2 cups milk
- 3 tablespoons butter, cut into bits and softened
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup well-chilled whipping cream
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons sugar
- grated bittersweet chocolate (to garnish)
directions
- Make crust: Preheat oven to 350°F In a bowl stir together crumbs, butter and sugar and press on bottom and up side of a 10 inch pie plate.
- Bake crust in middle of oven until crisp, 15-20 minutes.
- Cool completely.
- Make filling: In a metal bowl set over barely simmering water melt chocolate, stirring, until smooth and remove bowl from heat.
- In a saucepan, whisk together sugar, cornstarch, salt and egg yolks until combined well and add milk in a stream, whisking.
- Bring milk mixture to a boil over moderate heat, whisking, and simmer, whisking, until thick, about 1 minute.
- Force custard through a fine sieve into a bowl and whisk in melted chocolate, butter and vanilla until smooth.
- Cover surface of filling with plastic wrap to prevent skin from forming and cool completely.
- Pour filling into crust and chill pie, covered, at least 6 hours or overnight.
- In a bowl, beat cream to soft peaks.
- Beat in sugar and continue beating cream to stiff peaks.
- Spoon whipped cream decoratively onto pie and sprinkle with grated chocolate.
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I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
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Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
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