Chocolate Cream Pie #2

By carvalhohm

Ingredients

• For Crust:
• 1 1/3 cups chocolate wafer crumbs (from about 26 cookies such as Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers)
• 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1/4 cup sugar
• For Filling:
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 large egg yolks
• 3 cups whole milk
• 5 oz fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), melted
• 2 oz unsweetened chocolate, melted
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• For Topping:
• 3/4 cup chilled heavy cream
• 1 tablespoon sugar

Details

Servings 8

Preparation

Step 1

*Make crust:*
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°.

Stir together crumbs, butter, and sugar and press on bottom and up side of 9-inch pie plate (1-quart capacity). Bake until crisp, about 15 minutes, and cool on a rack.

*Make filling:*
Whisk together sugar, cornstarch, salt, and yolks in 3-quart heavy saucepan until combined well, then add milk in stream, whisking. Bring to boil over moderate heat, whisking, then reduce heat and simmer, whisking, 1 minute (filling will be thick).

Force filling through fine-mesh sieve into bowl, then whisk in chocolates, butter, and vanilla. Cover surface of filling with buttered round of wax paper and cool completely, about 2 hours.

Spoon filling into crust and chill pie, loosely covered, at least 6 hours.

*Make topping:*
Just before serving, beat cream with sugar in bowl using electric mixer until it just holds stiff peaks, then spoon on top of pie.