Courvoisier French Silk Pie
From fluffy24 15 years ago
- 5 minutes to make
- Serves 8
This is a delicious smooth as silk chocolate cream pie.
Ingredients
- 1 (9-inch) pastry crust, baked shopping list
- 2 1/2 cups half and half or light cream shopping list
- 4 tablespoons cornstarch shopping list
- 1/3 cup sugar shopping list
- 6 squares (1 ounce ea) semisweet chocolate shopping list
- 4 egg yolks shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla shopping list
- 1/4 cup Courvoisier shopping list
- 1 cup whipping cream shopping list
- 2 tablespoons Courvoisier shopping list
- chocolate shavings shopping list
How to make it
- In a medium saucepan, combine half and half, cornstarch, and sugar.
- Stir until well-blended. Add chocolate and cook over low heat, stirring continuously, until chocolate is melted and mixture comes to a boil.
- Stir one cup of hot mixture into yolks, return to pan. Cook and stir one minute. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and Courvoisier.
- Pour into prepared crust. Chill four hours.
- Whip cream with two tablespoons Courvoisier until fluffy. Spread over top of pie. Garnish with chocolate shavings.
- **NOTE: Courvoisier is a type of Brandy/Cognac**
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This sounds heavenly and as long as we're not using a huge quantity of the Courvoisier, I guess I can spare some for a recipe.
wonderful! Thanks for posting!
pat2me
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oh, how decadent! This is a great recipe for a New Year's Eve or a very special occasion!
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Sounds sinfully delicious.
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