chocolate pie
Oh Chocolate. If you follow me, you know how much I love chocolate. I mean, you could just go look in my dessert section and see. Ha!
Anyways, chocolate pie is such a staple in the South. Pie in general, really. This pie is a pie my aunt always bragged about. Before she made it for me, I tried it out on my own and have never stopped making it since!
Ingredients:
- 1 premade pie shell (deep, if you don't want leftover mixture- which is good for pudding)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 cups milk
- 4 large egg yolks
- 4 oz unsweet chocolate
- 1 oz intense dark chocolate
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup whipped cream for topping
- Reserved dark chocolate for shaving
- Directions:
- Heat oven according to directions for your pie shell
- Cook accordingly
- In a medium sauce pan place sugar, cornstarch and salt
- Start to heat it
- Mix eggs and milk in a bowl
- Dump into the heated saucepan and continue to stir until it comes to a boil
- Turn down heat a little and continue to stir it while it thickens
- When thickened, add chocolate and vanilla
- Mix well
- Pour into cooked shell
- Make whipped cream
- Top with whipped cream
