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Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie

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Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and everyone loves a good homemade pie for the dessert. This Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie is great for your chocoholic guests!

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Ingredients

  • MERINGUE TOPPING:
  • 1 homemade or store bought pie crust (one crust)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup cornstarch
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 heaping tablespoon of unsweetened baking cocoa (about 2 tablespoons)
  • 2 cups evaporated or whole milk
  • 3 eggs, separated - reserve egg whites
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 3 reserved egg whites
  • Dash cream of tarter
  • 2 tablespoons sugar or use meringue powder

Details

Servings 6
Preparation time 20mins
Cooking time 50mins

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350°F. Prick the bottom and sides of your pie crust and bake until golden brown. Remove from oven and let cool while you prepare the filling.

Mix the sugar, cornstarch and cocoa together in a medium size pot. Add the 2 cups evaporated milk or whole milk.

If using evaporated milk I use a 12 ounce can, measure one cup evaporated milk add to the pot and then measure one more cup evaporated milk.

You will be a bit short it comes to more like 3/4 cup so fill the rest of the measuring cup with water to make a cup.

Using a wire whisk blend together and stir constantly over medium high heat. When the mixture is heated through add the 3 egg yolks.

You will need to temper you egg yolks so add a bit of the pudding mixture to the egg yolks and blend before adding to the pudding mix. (you don't want scrambled eggs).

Stir constantly until thickened and bubbly. Remove from heat and add the vanilla and the butter.

Let cool pudding mixture cool while you prepare the meringue topping. Mix the 3 egg whites with a dash of cream of tarter along with 2 tablespoons sugar.

Whip the egg whites till stiff and soft peaks form. Add pudding to cooled pie shell and top with meringue making sure the meringue touches the sides of the pie crust to prevent shrinking.

Broil till lightly golden brown on top.

Cook's Note: If using Meringue Powder omit the egg whites and sugar. Follow the directions on the back of the can of the Meringue Powder for pies. I doubled the meringue recipe.

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