Chocolate Cream Pie

Chocolate Cream Pie

baked pie crust (see below)
1 C sugar               
1/4 C cornstarch
1 1/2 C whole milk           
1 1/2 C half and half
3 squares (ounces) unsweetened chocolate, chopped
4 eggs yolks
1 T butter               
 2 t vanilla

In a medium saucepan combine sugar and cornstarch.  Gradually stir in milk and half and half.  Add chocolate.  Cook and stir over medium-high heat until mixture is thickened and bubbly.  Reduce heat; cook and stir for 2 minutes more.  Remove from heat.  Beat egg yolks lightly with a fork.  Gradually stir about 1 C of the hot filling into yolks.  Return all to saucepan; bring to a gentel boil.  Cook and stir for 2 minutes more.  Remove from heat.  Stir in butter and vanilla.  Pour the hot filling into pie crust.  Cover filling with plastic wrap (to prevent film from setting on top) and place in fridge for a minimum of 5 hours.  Serve with Stabilized Whipped Cream or top with Cream Cheese Whipped Cream (below), which is our preference.


Cream Cheese Whipped Cream
1 C sugar
1 8oz cream cheese
2 C whip cream
Cream sugar and cream cheese together beating well so sugar dissolves.  Whip cream and at very end, add cream cheese and sugar mixture.  Put on top of pie.  It is a lot of topping, I usually don’t use all of it, but it is fun to have a really tall pie. (Hans likes a higher chocolate ratio to cream.)


Monette’s Pie Crust - Baked Crust
2 1/4 C flour
1 C butter flavored Crisco
½ t salt
cut in
1/3 C cold water (refrigerated -   super cold)
Cut Crisco into flour and salt until  resembles coarse meal.  (I usually use my hands) Sprinkle a tablespoon of cold water at a time over flour mixture and let sit for 5 minutes once all of the water has been added.  Mix with fork and work as little as possible. Dived in half and roll out.  (Best if you use a pastry cloth for rolling out.) Place in a pie plate, finishing edges as desired. Poke dough with fork several times around pie to prevent crust from bubbling up.  Bake at 450 for 10-12 minutes.

** I had a chocolate cream pie when I was pregnant with Truman in Vermont.  It is so memorable as one of the best things I've ever eaten.  This pie is it. My favorite over banana cream any day!