Chocolate cream pie. A pie filled with chocolate. Sounds like every kids dream. The inspiration to make this recipe was after watching Julie and Julia a film which interweaves the stories of Julia Child and a New York blogger Julie Powell. I have put this recipe together from several I found on the Internet with a few alterations of my own. I will get round to cooking Julie Child’s version.
Instead of a pastry case I have chosen to use a biscuit base as you would for a cheese cake. At first I was going to use Oreo biscuits for this, but whilst stood in the supermarket changed my mind and used bourbon biscuits. The filling is essentially a custard .
Ingredients
Base
- 1 packet of bourbon biscuit
- 50g butter
Filling
- 1 cup of double cream
- 2.5 cups of milk
- 3/4 cup of vanilla sugar
- 1/3 cup of corn flour
- 75g of 85% coco solids chocolate
- 25g of butter
- 9 egg Yolks
Topping
- 1 cup of double cream
- Vanilla extract
Method
Base
- Put two bourbon biscuits. to the side and crush the rest.
- Melt the butter and add to the crushed biscuits.
- Put the mixture in the bottom of 30cm spring form or loose bottom cake tin and spread the mixture out with the back of a spoon. Pressing the mixture against the base of the tin as you go.
- Chill the base in the refrigerator.
Filling
- Put the egg yolks and sugar in a bowl and whisk.
- Add the corn starch.
- Heat the cream and the milk.
- Pour the cream and the milk into egg and sugar mix.
- Return to the heat are stir until the custard starts to thicken.
- Add the chocolate and stir until melted.
- Allow the chocolate custard to start to cool.
- Pour the chocolate custard on top the base.
- Return to the refrigerator.
Yet more waiting but don’t worry. You remember the two bourbon biscuits you kept to the side in step one? You can now eat these with a cup of tea.
Topping
- Once cold carefully remove the pie from the cake tin.
- Whisk the cream and a few drops of vanilla extract and pipe onto the top of the pie.
- Slice and eat.
Chocolate cream pie serving suggestions
Serve with raspberries or other fresh fruit or eat it as it is. bon appétit!
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It looks delicious. I wondered what the two biscuits were for, I laughed when I found the answer. I like the idea of using biscuits as a base instead of pastry, the biscuit base is my favourite part of a cheesecake.
Aww, looks so dreamy! I wish I could try it
It was delicious I certainly wish more people could have tried it. It would have stopped me eating so much!