Chocolate Cream Pie - Thanksgiving Dessert

Epicurious is a great site for recipes, this one is delicious. I’ve made it with an ordinary pie crust as well and it’s still excellent.

Ingredients

The crust

1 1/3 cups chocolate wafer crumbs (approx. 26 Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers)
5 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
1/4 cup sugar

The filling

2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/2 teasp. salt
4 egg yolks
3 cups milk
5 oz. bittersweet chocolate melted
2 oz. unsweetened chocolate melted
2 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
1 teasp. vanilla

Topping

3/4 cup chilled heavy cream
1 tablespoon sugar

Directions

Make the crust first.
Heat oven to 350 degrees F.

Stir together the crumbs butter and sugar and press on bottom and up sides of a 9 inch pie plate. Bake until crisp, approx. 15 minutes and cool.

Next make the filling. Whisk together sugar, cornstarch, salt and yolks in a saucepan until combined well, then add milk in a steady stream whisking constantly. Bring to boil over moderate heat, whisking, then reduce heat and simmer whisking one minute until thick. Whisk in chocolates, butter and vanilla. Cover filling with a buttered round of wax paper and cool for 2 hours.

Spoon filling into pie crust and chill for at least 6 hours.

Just before serving,mix heavy cream and sugar together with an electric mixer until the cream is stiff. Spoon on top of pie
This pie is also good without the cream topping!