Brown Derby Black bottom chocolate cream pie

Recipe Rating:	1 Rating5
Categories:	Pies, Chocolate
Keyword:	Cream
Serves:	six to eight
Prep Time:	2 Hr
Cook Time:	1 Hr

Ingredients

pkg	1 evelope unflavored gelatin
3/4 c	sugar
1/8 tsp	salt
1	egg yolk
3/4 c	regular white milk
1	9 in., pie shell, baked
1 pkg	unsweetened bakers chocolate squares
1 pt	heavy whipping cream
1 tsp	vanilla extract
1 can(s)	carnation evaporated milk

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Barbara J. Matern

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Frackville, PA (pop. 3,805)

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Barbara J.'s Notes:

My daughter made this and She use to go to Perkin's once a month just to buy a full Chocolate silk pie, but since She has adopted this choc. pie recipe left in an old cookbook of My Grams, My daughter has never gone back to The French Silk ones, as She believes these are a hundred times more delicious. Well worth the little extra effort to make it!

Directions

Put 1 cup evaporated milk in bowl, set in freezer until ice crystals form/ appear on sides of bowl,beat until whipped and almost doubles in size in the bowl beat in 1 tsp. vanilla extract, then place back in freezer to keep chilled until later.

In a double boiler pot, combine 1 package of unflavored gelatin, the 3/4 c. sugar, salt(1/8tsp.), egg yolk,and regular white milk,simmer in this double boiler while stirring in and melting 3squares(reserve 1 square for later) bakers unsweetened chocolate, stirring occasionally. After this is all melted and stirred together, let cool.After this chocolate mixture cools, mix with an electric mixer until well beaten and smooth,chill, add evaporated milk mixture (previously set in freezer to chill) mix thoroughly. Poor into the 9 in. baked pie shell, chill,

Take the pint of heavy whipping cream,beat in a separate bowl with mixer until soft peaks form, add dash sugar to taste,put this on top of chilled choc pie in shell, take the reserved 4th square of chocolate,shave on top to color.(can also shave some orange zest for color.) Serve chilled

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Sherry Peyton SherryPeyton

Feb 3, 2012

so is it 4 oz of unsweetened choc? 3 in the pie itself?

Barbara J. Matern barbiedollmatern

Feb 4, 2012

Yes, you need the 4th square just to shave over the whipping cream at the end, only put 3 squares in the mixture for pie.

Barbara J. Matern barbiedollmatern

Feb 4, 2012

Baker's Unsweetened Chocolate squares can be purchased in 8oz. package, with each square(8 total) in each box being 1.oz., so You will need to use 3 squares(1oz. each) in your pie, and the forth 1oz. square being reserved for the final step after pie is completed and topped with the whipped cream, then You can shave this 4th square over the whipped cream along with some orange zest for color, but these shavings or zest are optional,

Sherry Peyton SherryPeyton

Feb 5, 2012

Thanks Barb, I use it a lot. I just wanted to make sure. Our local store now makes a cheaper Unsweetened and they form them in 1/2 ounce squares, so I have to make sure. I have this on a list of recipes to try soon. My husband would prefer that that be soon when it comes to this one I assure you.

Barbara J. Matern barbiedollmatern