How to Prepare Perfect Chocolate Cream Pie

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chocolate cream pie. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chocolate Cream Pie is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Chocolate Cream Pie is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chocolate cream pie using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Cream Pie:

1. Take Crust:
2. Get 16 oz unsalted butter chilled 1/2 in cubes
3. Get 1/4 cup Light brown sugar
4. Make ready 2 1/4 cup crushed chocolate wafers or choc. teddy grahams.
5. Make ready Filling
6. Make ready 3 1/2 cup half and half
7. Get 2/3 cup white sugar
8. Make ready 1/4 cup corn starch
9. Prepare 9 egg yolks
10. Take 1 cup semisweet choc. finely xhoppwd
11. Prepare 1/4 cup unsweetened choc. finely chopped
12. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
13. Take Whipped topping:
14. Prepare 2 cup Heavy whipping cream
15. Make ready 2 tbsp confectionera sugar
16. Get 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions to make Chocolate Cream Pie:

1. Grease bottom and sides of a 9" glass pie plate with butter; set aside. Heat 8 tbsp. butter and brown sugar in a 1-qt. saucepan until sugar dissolves. Transfer butter mixture to a medium bowl; stir in ground wafers. Transfer mixture to pie plate; press into bottom and sides, using the bottom of a measuring cup to compress crust. Refrigerate for 20 minutes. Bake at 350 or 12 min until set; let cool.
2. Heat half-and-half in a 4-qt. saucepan over medium-high heat until it just begins to simmer; remove pan from heat.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together 2?3 cup sugar and cornstarch; add egg yolks and whisk until smooth.
4. Drizzle half-and-half into egg yolk mixture, whisking constantly, until smooth.
5. Return mixture to saucepan; heat over medium heat. Cook, stirring often, until bubbles rise to the surface and mixture is very thick, 3?4 minutes.
6. Remove pan from heat and add remaining butter and chocolates in small batches, whisking until smooth; stir in 1 1?2 tsp. vanilla.
7. Set a sieve over a medium bowl and strain chocolate mixture. Cover with plastic wrap, pressing plastic onto surface; refrigerate until set, about 4 hours.
8. Remove plastic wrap from chocolate filling and, using a rubber spatula, stir mixture until smooth. Spoon mixture into reserved crust, forming a dome, and smooth surface with the spatula.
9. Whipped Topping: In a large bowl, whisk confectioners sugar, vanilla, and whipping cream until stiff peaks form; spread on top of filling, forming a dome. Add chocolate sprinkles to top. Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

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