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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Big Fat Chocolate Pie

This chocolate pie has been around our family for years! I started making it when my kids were little and it quickly became my daughter's favorite. It's a great pie...easy and delicious. We've had it for holidays lots of years and sometimes just because we needed chocolate pie. It's good with either meringue or sweetened whipped cream. Just an all around yummy pie!

Big Fat Chocolate Pie




1 10-inch pie shell ~ baked
2 cups sugar
2/3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 cups half & half
4 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate ~ chopped
6 eggs yolks (whites reserved for meringue, if desired)
4 tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons vanilla

In a large saucepan, whisk together the sugar, flour and salt.

Pour in the half & half and stir to combine.

Add the chopped chocolate and whisk for 10 minutes until mixture starts to boil and chocolate has completely melted.

In a small bowl, whisk the egg yolks together with a little of the hot chocolate filling mixture to temper the eggs.

Pour egg mixture back into the pan with the hot filling and whisk to combine. Cook and stir until mixture comes to a boil and cook for about a minute.

Remove from the heat and stir in the butter and vanilla.

Pour mixture into the baked 10" pie shell.

Lay a piece of plastic wrap directly on top of the hot filling and place pie in the fridge for several hours or over night.

Serve with whipped cream or meringue made from the reserved from the egg yolks.


Let's cook! 
Let's cook!

Mix together the sugar, flour and salt in a saucepan then pour in the half & half. 
Mix together the sugar, flour and salt 
in a saucepan then pour in the half & half.

Add the chopped chocolate then cook until mixture thickens, boils and the chocolate has completely melted. 
Add the chopped chocolate then 
cook until mixture thickens, boils 
and the chocolate has completely melted.

Add a little of the chocolate mixture to the egg yolks to temper them. 
Add a little of the chocolate mixture 
to the egg yolks to temper them.

Then add them into the chocolate mixture and stir and cook until mixture is thick and boils. 
Then add them into the chocolate 
mixture and stir and cook until 
mixture is thick and boils.

Remove from heat and add the butter and vanilla. 
Remove from heat and add the butter and vanilla.

Pour filling into your cooked pie shell, cover with plastic wrap and chill in the fridge. 
Pour filling into your cooked pie shell, 
cover with plastic wrap and chill in the fridge.

Slice and enjoy!! 
Slice and enjoy!!