Chocolate Cream Pie From Gourmet.com

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/3 cups chocolate wafer crumbs (from about 26 cookies such as nabisco famous chocolate wafers)
• 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 large egg yolks
• 3 cups whole milk
• 5 ounces bittersweet chocolate, fine-quality not unsweetened, melted
• 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3/4 cup heavy cream, chilled
• 1 tablespoon sugar

Recipe

• 1 put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°f for baking crust.
• 2 stir together crumbs, butter, and sugar and press on bottom and up side of a 9-inch pie plate (1-quart capacity). bake until crisp, about 15 minutes, and cool on a rack.
• 3 whisk together sugar, cornstarch, salt, and yolks in a 3-quart heavy saucepan until combined well,.
• 4 add milk in a stream, whisking.
• 5 bring to a boil over moderate heat, whisking, then reduce heat and simmer, whisking, 1 minute (filling will be thick).
• 6 orce filling through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, then whisk in chocolates, butter, and vanilla. cover surface of filling with a buttered round of wax paper and cool completely, about 2 hours.
• 7 poon filling into crust and chill pie, loosely covered, at least 6 hours.
• 8 for whipped cream.
• 9 just before serving, beat cream with sugar in a bowl using an electric mixer until it just holds stiff peaks, then spoon on top of pie.
• 10 pie (without topping) can be chilled up to 1 day.