French Silk Chocolate Pie Recipe
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Category
Dessert
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Cusine
French
What do you need?
How to make?
Ingredients
One single pie crust, blind baked in a pie plate and cooled
1 cup heavy cream, chilled
3 large egg yolks
Pinch of salt
¾ cup sugar
2 tbsp. water
8 oz. bittersweet chocolate, melted and cooled
Freshly whipped cream, for serving
Optional: chocolate shavings
Directions
Whip heavy cream and set aside in the fridge. Melt the chocolate over a double boiler. Whisk the yolks, sugar, and water together in the bowl from your stand mixer or a heatproof bowl. Set the bowl over a pot of boiling water and whisk vigorously. Continue to whisk until the temperature reaches 160 degrees Fahrenheit, and remove from the heat. Immediately begin whisking yolk mixture on high speed until it grows in size and thickness and comes to room temperature—about 5 minutes. Reduce speed of mixer to low and begin streaming the cooled melted chocolate into the bowl with the yolks. Mix until combined. Fold chocolate mixture into whipped cream , taking care not to deflate the cream. Pour mixture directly into the cooled, blind-baked pie shell. Chill the pie in the fridge for at least 2 hours. Top with additional whipped cream and chocolate shavings right before serving.
Use a knife dipped in warm water for clean slicing, and be sure to clean the knife between each incision.