Chocolate Velvet Cream Pie
From karlyn255 14 years ago
- 15 minutes to make
- Serves 8
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 butter. Read more The filling contains cream cheese, and is smooth and silky in texture See less
Ingredients
- for the base: shopping list
- 250g (9 oz) packet dark chocolate digestive biscuits (graham crackers in North America). shopping list
- 75g (3 oz) butter, melted and cooled shopping list
- Ingredients for the filling: shopping list
- 225g (8 oz or 2 US sticks) cream cheese shopping list
- 175g (6 oz or one cup scant) caster (fine granulated) sugar shopping list
- 5 ml (1 tsp.) vanilla essence shopping list
- 175g (6 oz) dark chocolate, melted shopping list
- 2 large egg yolks shopping list
- 300 ml (8 fluid ounces or one US cup) double cream shopping list
- 1 large egg white shopping list
How to make it
- 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.
The Rating
Reviewed by 7 people-
A wonderful sounding recipe.
joe1155
in Munchen loved it
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LOVE chocolate pie! Great recipe.
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love chocolate..high five
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