Chocolate Chess Pie

Name: Chocolate Chess Pie
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, coarsely chopped; 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped; 1-1/4 cups sugar; 1 tablespoon fine cornmeal; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules; 3 large eggs plus 1 egg yolk, at room temperature; 1/4 cup milk; 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract or 1-1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract plus 1/4 teaspoon almond extract

Chocolate Chess Pie was pinched from <a href="http://www.almanac.com/recipe/chocolate-chess-pie-recipe?utm_source=Almanac%20Recipe%20Box" target="_blank">www.almanac.com.</a>

"Why "Chess" Pie? As one story goes, a Southern gentleman came home one evening and asked his wife, an accomplished but modest cook, what smelled so good. "It's jes' pie," she replied. This recipe is courtesy of The Old Farmer's Almanac Everyday Baking...."

INGREDIENTS

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1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, coarsely chopped

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4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped

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1-1/4 cups sugar

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1 tablespoon fine cornmeal

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1/4 teaspoon salt

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1 teaspoon instant coffee granules

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3 large eggs plus 1 egg yolk, at room temperature

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1/4 cup milk

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1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract or 1-1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract plus 1/4 teaspoon almond extract

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