This a wonderful pie. I is chocolaty but not super sweet. I do alter this recipe a bit when I make it and I add a tablespoon of dark cocoa but it may be too much chocolate for some people. This pie makes me stop everything and just enjoy the bite whenever I eat it.
Provided by Dixie from Kansas
Categories Dessert
Time 35m
Yield 1 pie, 8-10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F for baking crust.
- Stir together crumbs, butter, and sugar and press on bottom and up side of a 9-inch pie plate (1-quart capacity). Bake until crisp, about 15 minutes, and cool on a rack.
- Whisk together sugar, cornstarch, salt, and yolks in a 3-quart heavy saucepan until combined well,.
- add milk in a stream, whisking.
- Bring to a boil over moderate heat, whisking, then reduce heat and simmer, whisking, 1 minute (filling will be thick).
- orce filling through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, then whisk in chocolates, butter, and vanilla. Cover surface of filling with a buttered round of wax paper and cool completely, about 2 hours.
- poon filling into crust and chill pie, loosely covered, at least 6 hours.
- For whipped cream.
- Just before serving, beat cream with sugar in a bowl using an electric mixer until it just holds stiff peaks, then spoon on top of pie.
- Pie (without topping) can be chilled up to 1 day.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 477.1, Fat 29.9, SaturatedFat 17.1, Cholesterol 159, Sodium 329.7, Carbohydrate 49.2, Fiber 1.9, Sugar 34.8, Protein 7
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