Recipe

Chocolate Velvet Cream Pie Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Karlyn255 / All my dishes 7 months ago This recipe is from Claire Macdonald who has written many cookery books and runs the cookery school at Kinloch Lodge in the UK. This pie has a base not of pastry but of crushed chocolate digestive biscuits (Graham crackers), mixed with melted b... More Prep:25m Cook:15m Servings:8	Karlyn255
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Ingredients

for the base:

250g (9 oz) packet dark chocolate digestive biscuits (Graham crackers in North America).

75g (3 oz) butter, melted and cooled

Ingredients for the filling:

225g (8 oz or 2 US sticks) cream cheese

175g (6 oz or one cup scant) caster (fine granulated) sugar

5 ml (1 tsp.) vanilla essence

175g (6 oz) dark chocolate, melted

2 large egg yolks

300 ml (8 fluid ounces or one US cup) double cream

1 large egg white

Directions

To make the base, crush the biscuit to crumbs in a blender or food

processor, or in a polythene bag with a rolling pin.

Mix together the biscuit crumbs and the cooled melted butter, and press round the base and sides of a 20-22.5cm (8-9inch) flan dish. Bake in the oven pre-heated to 180'c (350'f/gas mark 4) for 15 minutes.

Remove and leave to cool.

To make the filling, beat together the cream cheese and 100g (4 oz) of the caster sugar.

Beat in the vanilla essence and the melted chocolate, and the

egg yolk, one by one.

Fold in the cream, whipped until it just holds its shape.

Whisk the egg whites until they are stiff, then, still whisking, add

the remaining caster sugar a spoonful at a time.

Fold into the chocolate mixture.

Pour the mixture in to the cooled baked pie crust.

Chill in the fridge for several hours until set.

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