Sorry to be blogging about it so late. My fantastic neighbor made this glorious request, and we all gathered in our neighbor's backyard yesterday to eat said pie and drink wine until 11 at night. And, well, I need my beauty rest.
I made my usual crust and then my usual pudding recipe, but did the following to make it chocolatey:
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
3 oz unsweetened chocolate (chopped)
4 cups milk
4 slightly beaten eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
Mix sugar, flour, salt in sauce pan. Chop chocolate and add to milk; slowly stir in milk to sugar/flour/salt mixture. Cook and stir over medium heat till mixture boils and thickens; cook 2 minutes longer. Stir a little of hot mixture into eggs; stir into remaining hot mixture. Stirring constantly, bring just to boiling. Add vanilla. Makes a full filling for a 9" pie.
This pudding calls for more sugar, but I backed it out, and it tastes MUCH, MUCH better.
I also tried something new with the meringue, but it was a stellar fail (did I tell y'all I failed chemistry in college?). I wanted to make chocolate meringue to put on top of the chocolate pudding. Doesn't that sound good? I think it would look good, too. All I had was Nesquik in the pantry, so I put a couple of tablespoons in the egg whites while I was beating them and phhhhhhbbbbbbtttttt, the meringue melted. Oh well. I'm going to keep working on a recipe for that. Just sounds yummy.
Have a good weekend everyone and throw a cupcake in trash for me...it's pie's time to shine!
Two of those hands in this picture are mine! I'm a lucky neighbor who occasionally is invited to be a guinea pig/taste tester. My first pie slice was the "She's My Cherry" and I've been a devotee ever since. This Chocolate Meringue Pie earns 5 stars - the "ususal" crust was perfectly flakey, the filling was super smooth and chocolatey, and the meringue held up beautifully. Way to go Neighbor!
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