This is a ridiculously easy, unbelievably delicious recipe for chocolate pie.
Originally from freethoughtblogs.com
Ingredients
- 1 single pie crust (this is an open-faced pie). More on pie crust in a tic.
- 1 stick butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 Tbsp. evaporated milk
- 2 squares/ ounces baking chocolate (unsweetened)
- Whipped cream (optional in theory, mandatory in my opinion)
- If you want:
- 1/8 tsp. ground cardamom
- 1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp. ground white pepper
Instructions
- Bake the unfilled pie shell for 5-10 minutes at 450 degrees, until it’s starting to firm up a little but isn’t cooked through
- Melt butter and chocolate in a saucepan
- Add the other ingredients (minus the whipped cream) and mix; you can do this in the saucepan. (I add the eggs last, so the melted butter and chocolate have a chance to cool and the eggs don’t scramble.)
- Pour the filling into the pie shell.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes at 325 degrees, until the filling is set. (I usually test it at 30 minutes, but it usually still needs another 5-10 minutes. When it’s no longer jiggling in the middle, it’s done.)
Additional notes
A quick note on the baking chocolate: For the sweet love of Loki and all the gods in Valhalla, use Scharffen Berger’s if you possibly can, or some other seriously good baking chocolate. I made this pie for years using just regular baking chocolate from the supermarket, and it was perfectly yummy… but once I started using Scharffen Berger’s, it amped up from delicious to transcendent. I frankly don’t much care for Scharffen Berger’s eating chocolate, I think the mouth- feel is insufficiently creamy… but for cooking, their baking chocolate is beyond compare.