Chocolate Pie!

Hi, Wilful here.

I'm about to leave the country for twelve days and go to Argentina. You know what that means! Chocolate cream pie time! Actually, it's pretty much always chocolate cream pie time around here.

Here's a recipe that will knock your socks off. If you don't want pie, just make the filling, refrigerate it and call it chocolate pudding. "Hey, Chocolate Pudding! Come over here so I can eat you!" Ha ha, "call it", get it? Err, never mind . . .

For crust

• 1 1/3 cups graham cracker crumbs
  
• 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1/4 cup sugar

For filling

• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 large egg yolks
• 3 cups whole milk
• 7 oz chocolate, melted (you can use a combo of bittersweet and unsweetened or all bittersweet)
  
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

For topping

• Whip cream! Either out of a can or whipped from scratch.
  

Directions:


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix the ingredients for the crust together and pat them into a pie pan. Bake until crisp, about 18 minutes. (The white spot in the middle of mine is a lump of sugar that didn't incorporate well. It's not mold. I promise.)


Mix the sugar, cornstarch, salt and egg yolks in a heavy sauce pan. Whisk them until it forms a big lump in the middle of your whisk. That's what it did for me anyway. Then pour the milk in a steady stream, whisking all the time. Bring to a boil over medium high heat, whisking all the while. When it's boiling, turn the heat down to low and cook for one minute, still whisking. it will be very thick! Turn off the heat.



Then pour in your melted chocolate, add the butter and vanilla and whisk until smooth.

Put a piece of plastic wrap directly on the surface of the filling so it won't form a skin. Set the pot in a bowl full of ice water until the filling is cool. This will take about 45 minutes. Pour it into your prepared shell. Taste it too. It's REALLY good.


Ok, stop tasting it! Smooth what's left in the shell until it looks like chocolate pie. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and set this in the fridge for 6 hours or until your company comes, whichever happens soonest. Top with whipped cream and serve! My whip cream is coming with my company, so I don't have a pic of that. I'll post one later if I can.


Share and enjoy!