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Thursday, January 2, 2014

I believe we have a winner, chocolate-pie wise

For several weeks now, I have been making recipes of chocolate pies in a quest to recreate the chocolate pie of Mrs. Wolves' youth. Yesterday, on New Year's Day, I apparently kicked the year off right and found THE pie recipe. First off, you will need sugar, flour, milk, baker's chocolate, three egg yolks, butter, vanilla and graham crackers:


Obviously, you can just buy a graham cracker crust and avoid these steps. I have no problem with you doing this. If you choose to make your own crust, put a sleeve of graham crackers (12 crackers), busted up, into a blender:


Melt about 6 tablespoons of butter:


Grind those crackers until they are fine crumbs:


Mix in the butter and 1/4 cup of sugar. Mix it up right:


Press the mixture into a pie pan:


Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes:


Set it aside and let's get on with the pie. Combine 3/4 cup of sugar, 1/3 cup flour, 2 cups of milk and 2-4 ounces (depending on desired chocolatey-ness) of unsweetened or semi-sweet baker's chocolate in a saucepan:


Stir over medium heat:


Once the mixture begins to bubble, stif for two more minutes:


Beat your egg yolks:


Add a large spoonful of your hot chocolate mix to the eggs gradually, stirring it in to avoid cooking the yolks:


Add the warm yolk mixture into the chocolate mixture:


Stir it in, cook for another 90 seconds, then remove from heat. Stir in 1 teaspoon of vanilla and 2 tablespoons of butter:


Once you mix it up right, pour the mixture into your pie crust and chill until set:


Nobody took any pictures of individual slices being served, but put some whipped cream on top and enjoy the hell out of it. Best recipe yet.

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