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A powerful Chocolate Cream Pie with a chocolate biscuit base, a creamy clean chocolate custard filling, topped with clouds of cream. Also called a chocolate pudding pie, it tastes like a cross between chocolate mousse and Chocolate Bavarian Pie!

Chocolate Cream Pie

As a child, I’d get so excited on the uncommon event my mom would splurge on a chocolate bavarian pie. I’m speaking concerning the type bought within the freezer part of supermarkets. Not a elaborate patisserie cake made with the gorgeous French bavarian cream, crème bavaroise.

I believed it was the very best factor ever. Simply the correct amount of crumbly biscuity base. That chocolatey creamy filling.

And it will nonetheless be the very best factor ever had I not learnt to cook dinner it myself! Whereas the biscuit base isn’t too totally different, the chocolate layer is completely no comparability. Do-it-yourself has actual chocolate flavour and a mouthfeel that store-bought by no means will.

My childhood bavarian pie additionally advanced with the addition of a beneficiant cloud of whipped cream, which is simply heavenly with the chocolate filling, Therefore, re-christened as a Chocolate Cream Pie.

I may eat this day by day. I predict you’ll really feel the identical!

What’s in a Chocolate Cream Pie

This Chocolate Cream Pie is a basic mixture with:

1. chocolate cookie base – produced from Oreo cookies which supplies it an additional intense chocolate flavour.

2. chocolate filling – it’s basically a pudding, a creamy-but-light custard chocolate filling. If you wish to get fancy, it’s the truth is a kind of French chocolate custard referred to as crème pâtissière. Fancy it might sound, however it’s really a surprisingly easy custard that you simply see contestants in actuality cooking exhibits frantically stressing about making silky clean and thick, somewhat than gritty and runny.

   I’m sorry, however I don’t get it. It’s not arduous to make. Not should you comply with the only a few easy steps required to make it! You’ll see within the recipe video. 🙂

3. whipped cream – the pie is topped with a mound of fluffy calmly sweetened vanilla whipped cream.

Dreamy is a phrase that involves thoughts!

Components in Chocolate Cream Pie

1. Chocolate filling elements

This custard / pudding is thickened with a mix of cornflour/cornstarch and egg yolks, enriched with butter and cream and flavoured with melted chocolate. It’s DIVINE!

• Chocolate – I take advantage of a mix of 70% cocoa darkish chocolate and milk chocolate for my excellent stability of chocolate flavour depth (70% cocoa) and creamy chocolatey-ness (milk chocolate).

• Egg yolks – This helps the custard thicken and set in addition to giving it an opulent mouthfeel that frozen Sara-Lee chocolate bavarian pies can ever examine to!

  Additionally, here’s a record of what I do with leftover egg whites.

• Cornflour / cornstarch – That is additionally used to thicken the custard.

• Cream and milk – The liquids for the custard. Cream isn’t typical for custards however it provides richness right here! You’ll be able to simply use milk, should you’d choose.

• Butter – This provides but extra richness into the custard.

• Sugar for sweetness (this isn’t overly candy), vanilla for flavour and a pinch of salt to convey out the flavours (commonplace candy baking follow nowadays).

**Overlook Cool Whip** Shortcut recipes for chocolate pie fillings are fairly frequent on the web. Some are made with Cool Whip (Australia, we don’t have this and I hope we by no means do, it’s a synthetic thickened “cream” filling), or boxed chocolate pudding powder, marshmallows (too candy for my style), or a easy ganache filling (which could be very dense and really wealthy).

For me, I imagine that there are some issues that ought to be completed proper. And if we’re going to make a selfmade Chocolate Cream Pie – let’s make the very best one we are able to! I promise it trumps boxed pudding powder. 🙂

2. Oreo Cookie pie base elements

I like making Chocolate Cream Pie with an Oreo Cookie pie crust. Made with crushed Oreo cookies, there’s terrific texture distinction with the creamy filling and an additional hit of chocolate. I additionally just like the darkish almost-black color.

Right here’s what you want:

• Oreo biscuits – I like utilizing Oreo cookies for the feel and flavour, I discover they’re extra chocolate-y than most different chocolate biscuits. However any plain chocolate biscuits / cookies will work positive right here, corresponding to Arnott’s Chocolate Ripples.

• Melted butter – That is what makes the Oreo crumbs maintain collectively to kind a crust.

vanilla Whipped cream

And right here’s what you want for the fluffy mound of whipped cream:

• Whipping cream – Be sure to use cream that may be whipped. Not all lotions are, some are made for simply pouring or dolloping. Learn the label to verify. And – NO LOW FAT! 🙂

• Vanilla for a contact of pretty flavour.

• Sugar – Not an excessive amount of. Only a bit, to calmly sweeten.

make Chocolate Cream Pie

That is an nearly no-bake recipe. The crust is baked for 10 minutes to make it additional crisp. The custard-pudding filling is cooked on the range, poured into the crust then refrigerated in a single day to set.

1. find out how to make the pie crust

I take advantage of a meals processor to blitz the Oreo cookies. It takes seconds!

1. Blitz – Roughly break up the Oreo cookies by hand and drop right into a meals processor. Blitz into positive crumbs (~5 – 10 seconds). Add melted butter then blitz briefly simply to combine by means of. The combination ought to resemble moist sand.

2. Press – Pour right into a 22.5cm/9″ pie tin. Use your palms / rubber spatula / one thing flat to press the crumbs firmly into the bottom and partitions.

3. Bake for 10 minutes at 180°C/350°F (160° fan-forced). This makes the pie crust crisper.

4. Deflate – The crust puffs up within the oven. Gently deflate utilizing a rubber spatula or comparable – the bottom and partitions. This too makes the pie crust crisper and firmer.

2. find out how to (EASILY) CUT A ROUND FROM PAPER

Earlier than we get into the enjoyable chocolate filling making half, a fast little tip for find out how to reduce a circle from paper. Do that earlier than you begin the custard so you may cowl the custard as quickly as you pour it into the crust. It prevents a pores and skin from forming on the floor which begins fairly rapidly.

1. Baking paper – Tear a sheet of baking paper bigger than the pie tine, then fold in half.

2. Fold in half once more.

3. Then fold right into a triangle.

4. Hold folding to kind a protracted skinny triangle.

5. Measure how massive your pie dish is by inserting the tip of the triangle above the centre of the pie tin. Reduce off the top.

6. Then unfold. Voila! Neat circle that covers your pie!

3. find out how to make the chocolate filling

The chocolate filling elements are merely whisked on the range which thickens right into a custard because it heats up. The custard is pourable when sizzling, then units so it’s cuttable as soon as refrigerated.

1. Whisk dry – Place cornflour, sugar and salt in a medium saucepan. Whisk to mix.

2. Add liquids – Add milk, cream and yolks. Whisk to mix. Then whisk once in a while over medium warmth (or medium low for robust fuel stoves) because the combination is heating up. As soon as the liquid is sizzling (round 3 minutes), you’ll really feel the combination beginning to thicken so begin to whisk always to make sure the bottom doesn’t catch.

   45 second whisk – When the combination begins effervescent (round 4 min), whisk always for 45 seconds then take it off the range.

   Lumps? Don’t fret in case your combination will get lumps, take it off the range and whisk vigorously, you must have the ability to whisk them out. As a final resort, you may pressure the custard at step 5.

3. Soften in chocolate – Take away off the range. Add butter, chocolate and vanilla and whisk till the chocolate melts and the filling is clean.

4. Thickness – The custard ought to have a thickness like honey. It will likely be pourable, however received’t mound.

5. Pour the custard straight into the pie crust.

6. Easy the floor.

4. Setting and adorning

7. Cowl – Instantly cowl with a spherical piece of baking/parchment paper, urgent calmly so it’s in touch with the floor. This may forestall a pores and skin from forming. (Don’t use cling wrap, you’ll peel a thick layer of custard off which I do know you’re pondering nicely then I get to lick all of it off! However the actuality is it’s really fairly troublesome to do off cling wrap. Sure, I do know from first hand expertise. Stick to paper!!)

8. Refrigerate for 12 hours+ to make sure the custard absolutely units. Don’t attempt to shortcut it and don’t assume which you can reduce a slice on the 3 hour mark as a result of it appears fairly set! In the event you reduce out a slice earlier than it’s absolutely set, you’ll break the custard in the entire pie and it’ll by no means set once more. Once more, I do know this from first hand expertise from testing variation iterations of this Chocolate Cream Pie in addition to this recipe, this recipe and this recipe!

9. Cream – Fastidiously peel off the paper then high with whipped cream.

10. Garnish with a sprinkle of grated chocolate, if desired. Then, it’s able to devour!

Issues of serving and consuming

As a result of it’s a pie, it’s finest to serve it out of the pie tin. Eradicating the entire pie can be dangerous! Reduce within the pie tin and carry (pulling the primary slice out neatly is all the time a little bit difficult, if essential, I’ll resort to a rubber spatula to get proper beneath). The Oreo cookie crust holds collectively when sliced (see video and pictures) however it crumbles a bit as you begin consuming it which makes the entire consuming expertise even higher. As a result of, think about this:

A giant mouthful of wealthy, clean, chocolatey filling with clouds of fluffy cream PLUS little bits of crumbled Oreo cookie…..

It’s simply perfection!  – Nagi xx

PS If you wish to make this forward as much as 2 days forward with out the whipped cream weeping, then stabilise the whipped cream by including marscapone. Details about stabilised whipped cream right here, recipe is within the notes of the recipe card beneath.

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Chocolate Cream Pie

Prep: 25 minutes minutes

Cook dinner: 25 minutes minutes

Cooling / refrigeration: 15 hours hrs

Whole: 55 minutes minutes

Dessert

Western

Servings10 – 12

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Recipe video above. It is a magnificent but surprisingly straight ahead pie that may be made days prematurely of serving. A biscuit base, full of a creamy pudding / chocolate custard filling and topped with clouds of cream that is made completely from scratch. No pudding combine round right here!

Directions

• Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F (160° fan-forced).

• Reduce spherical paper – Reduce a spherical piece of baking / parchment paper, the dimensions of the pie dish (to forestall pores and skin forming on custard). (Word 5)

Oreo cookie crust:

• Blitz – Break up Oreos roughly by hand and place in a meals processor. Blitz into crumbs (~10 sec). Add butter, blitz to combine by means of. Combination ought to resemble moist sand. (No meals processor? Bash in ziplock bag with a rolling pin).

• Press – Pour right into a 23cm / 9″ pie dish. Unfold crumbs out and press firmly into the bottom and up the partitions utilizing your palms, spatula or one thing flat.

• Bake for 10 minutes, then enable to chill on the counter earlier than filling.

Filling (see video, it is useful):

• Whisk dry, then moist – Place cornflour, sugar and salt in a big saucepan. Whisk to mix. Add milk, cream and yolks. Whisk to mix.

• Warmth to thicken – Flip warmth onto medium excessive. Because the combination warms up, whisk once in a while, however not always. Because the liquid begins to get sizzling at across the 3 – 5 minute mark (you will see steam), flip the range right down to medium low and begin to whisk always. You’ll really feel and see the combination begin to thicken. Obtained lumps? See Word 6!

• 45 second whisk – If you see sluggish, lazy bubbles (~6 minutes, you have to to pause whisking to see bubbles), whisk always for 45 seconds then take it off the range.

• Chocolate and butter – Add butter, chocolate and vanilla. Whisk till chocolate melts and filling is clean.

Assembling / setting custard

• Pour sizzling filling into pie crust, clean floor. Gently place spherical baking paper on floor.

• Cool on the counter for two hours then refrigerate for 12+ hours to permit the custard to completely set.

• Whipped cream – Beat whipped cream elements in a bowl on excessive for two to three minutes till softly whipped.

• Topping – Fastidiously peel again paper. Pile on the whipped cream, then grate chocolate throughout the floor.

• Serving – Hold the pie within the pie tin. Reduce and serve!

Recipe Notes:

1. Oreos – You will have 2 commonplace Oreo packets. There are 14 in every packet so that you’ll use all of 1 packet and all however 3 within the 2nd packet.
Plain chocolate biscuits/cookies, like Arnott’s Chocolate Ripples, will also be used although the color isn’t as an intense darkish chocolate brown.
2. Cream – I like so as to add cream into the filling as a result of it makes it simply that contact extra creamy and wealthy nevertheless, most chocolate custards / crème pâtissières are made with simply milk. So you may simply use milk if you want – the filling might take 30 seconds or so longer to thicken.
3. Leftover egg whites – Right here’s my record of what I do with them and all my egg white recipes could be discovered on this recipe assortment.
4. Chocolate –I make this with a mix of darkish and milk chocolate as a result of the darkish offers that intense chocolate flavour and the milk lightens the color of the filling so it contrasts with the darkish crust. You possibly can make this completely with milk or darkish chocolate. 
Australia: For the 70% cocoa, Plaistow from the supermarkets is ok, Lindt is nice! US: Ghirardelli is nice too.
Chips or melts can be utilized as nicely, for a greater high quality choice. Nonetheless, I like to recommend utilizing chocolate bought from the baking aisle, not consuming chocolate, as some manufacturers are designed to not soften very nicely!
5. Reducing spherical – See video at X.X. Fold a sheet of baking/parchment in half, then half once more. Hold folding to make a protracted skinny triangle with a sharp finish. Measure how massive your pie dish is by inserting the tip of the triangle above the centre of the pie tin. Reduce off the top, then unfold. Voila! Neat circle!
6. Lumpy custard? That’s okay! In the event you get them whereas on the range, take it off the range and whisk vigorously, this may take away most. In the event you’ve nonetheless acquired lumps after the chocolate is melted by means of, simply pressure the custard into the pie crust. 
7. Storage – This pie will maintain for round 3 days, then I discover the bottom begins softening a bit. Hold within the fridge. 
Stabilised cream – To stop the cream from weeping, add 100g / 1/2 cup mascarpone into the cream, then beat till whipped. This may stabilise it so it doesn’t deflate for two – 3 days. Extra on stabilised cream right here.
6. Diet per serving assuming 12 slices.

Diet Info:

Serving: 173gEnergy: 521cal (26%)Carbohydrates: 44g (15%)Protein: 6g (12%)Fats: 38g (58%)Saturated Fats: 22g (138%)Polyunsaturated Fats: 2gMonounsaturated Fats: 11gTrans Fats: 0.3gLdl cholesterol: 142mg (47%)Sodium: 114mg (5%)Potassium: 186mg (5%)Fiber: 2g (8%)Sugar: 32g (36%)Vitamin A: 1069IU (21%)Vitamin C: 0.3mgCalcium: 98mg (10%)Iron: 3mg (17%)

Key phrases: Chocolate bavarian pie, chocolate cream pie, chocolate pudding pie

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Initially printed in 2017. It’s such a private favorite, I actually needed to re-publish it with higher pictures and a a lot improved recipe video. My abilities have improved over the previous 5 years with numerous follow!

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