Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chocolate cream pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chocolate Cream Pie is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Chocolate Cream Pie is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chocolate cream pie using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Cream Pie:
- Prepare Crust:
- Get unsalted butter chilled 1/2 in cubes
- Prepare Light brown sugar
- Make ready crushed chocolate wafers or choc. teddy grahams.
- Take Filling
- Take half and half
- Prepare white sugar
- Get corn starch
- Prepare egg yolks
- Get semisweet choc. finely xhoppwd
- Prepare unsweetened choc. finely chopped
- Get vanilla extract
- Get Whipped topping:
- Get Heavy whipping cream
- Prepare confectionera sugar
- Get vanilla extract
Instructions to make Chocolate Cream Pie:
- Grease bottom and sides of a 9" glass pie plate with butter; set aside. Heat 8 tbsp. butter and brown sugar in a 1-qt. saucepan until sugar dissolves. Transfer butter mixture to a medium bowl; stir in ground wafers. Transfer mixture to pie plate; press into bottom and sides, using the bottom of a measuring cup to compress crust. Refrigerate for 20 minutes. Bake at 350 or 12 min until set; let cool.
- Heat half-and-half in a 4-qt. saucepan over medium-high heat until it just begins to simmer; remove pan from heat.
- In a large bowl, whisk together 2?3 cup sugar and cornstarch; add egg yolks and whisk until smooth.
- Drizzle half-and-half into egg yolk mixture, whisking constantly, until smooth.
- Return mixture to saucepan; heat over medium heat. Cook, stirring often, until bubbles rise to the surface and mixture is very thick, 3?4 minutes.
- Remove pan from heat and add remaining butter and chocolates in small batches, whisking until smooth; stir in 1 1?2 tsp. vanilla.
- Set a sieve over a medium bowl and strain chocolate mixture. Cover with plastic wrap, pressing plastic onto surface; refrigerate until set, about 4 hours.
- Remove plastic wrap from chocolate filling and, using a rubber spatula, stir mixture until smooth. Spoon mixture into reserved crust, forming a dome, and smooth surface with the spatula.
- Whipped Topping: In a large bowl, whisk confectioners sugar, vanilla, and whipping cream until stiff peaks form; spread on top of filling, forming a dome. Add chocolate sprinkles to top. Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.
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