Chocolate Layer Pie
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Yields:
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1 Pie
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
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Crust
- 1 1⁄2 cups finely crushed chocolate cookies
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1⁄3 cup melted butter or 1/3 cup margarine
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Cream Cheese Layer
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1 (8 ounce) container whipped topping, divided
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Chocolate Filling Layer
- 1⁄3 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 1⁄2 cups milk
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 2 egg yolks
- 4 ounces German sweet chocolate, chopped
- chocolate shavings (to garnish)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
directions
- Combine cookie crumbs, 3 Tbs sugar and melted butter.
- Press firmly into 9 inch pie plate covering bottom and sides evenly.
- Bake at 350° F for 10 minutes.
- In a medium sized bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar, and 1 tbs milk in large bowl until smooth.
- Gently stir in 1/2 of the whipped topping.
- Spread on bottom of baked crust.
- In a medium saucepan, combine the 1/3 cup sugar and the cornstarch.
- Stir in the milk, chocolate, and 1 tablespoon butter.
- Cook on medium stirring constantly until thickened and bubbling.
- Reduce heat; cook and stir 2 additional minutes.
- Remove 1 cup of mixture from pan.
- Gradually stir the 1 cup of mixture into egg yolks.
- Return mixture to saucepan; bring to boil.
- Cook, stirring constantly for 2 additional minutes.
- Stir in vanilla.
- Set pudding aside to cool for a few minutes.
- Turn pie filling into pie pan on top of the cream cheese layer.
- Refrigerate for 4 hours or until set.
- Just before Serving spread remaining whipped toping over pudding layer, and garnish with shaved chocolate.
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Reviews
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Love, this is a beautifully rich pie! So creamy and delicious! I did have a few questions while preparing. #1 the amount is not given for the vanilla, so I used about 1 tsp in the chocolate filling layer. #2 The amount was not given for the whipped topping. I must have used too much because when I added it to the pie shell, it almost filled it up, so I removed half and used it to top the chocolate filling layer with. :) I also didn't have enough german chocolate on hand, so used 2 oz. german chocolate, 2 oz semi-sweet, which worked out very nicely ;). Also, I wanted to mention, to cool the pie shell before filling with the whipped topping. Great pie, Love! Thanks for posting!
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Thanks for suggesting this delicious dessert! I found this so easy to make and yet so pretty! When I added the chocolate shavings on top of the whip cream layer, it looked like a picture right out of a magazine! I added 1 tsp of vanilla to the chocolate layer as Bev suggested. (I'm also glad she reminded me to let the crust cool before adding the first layer--thanks) Thanks for this great recipe! I will be making this creamy chocolate treat again!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
love4culinary
United States
Since April 2008, I have been a vegetarian. I dont eat creatures...that's the easiest way to put it! :D
I still eat a small amount of dairy, but not very much.
I have been missing around here for a while, and hope to poke my head in a bit more often from now on...
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