I realized that today is Pi Day (3.14-March 14) and I should have made a Pi Pie.
I saw this pie last year, and wanted to make something similar.
Unfortunately, I forgot all about Pi Day until I saw someone post on Facebook about how they had forgotten to make a Pi Pie.
I realized that I had too, but there was still time to make some sort of pie, just not a Pi Pie (I didn't have the right stuff). So, I combined a couple of recipes and came up with this pie (Jeremy and Luke loved it)
For the crust you'll have to bake chocolate cookies:
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Ingredients:
1 cup softened butter or margarine
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 TSP vanilla
2 cups flour
2/3 cup cocoa powder
3/4 TSP baking soda
Preheat oven to 350. In large bowl beat together butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
In a separate bowl combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt; stir into butter mix.
(At this point you can add 2 cups of chocolate chips if you want cookies: omit the chips for a pie crust). Put cookies on ungreased cookie sheet and bake 12 minutes (for just cookies, 8-10 minutes. Pie crust needs longer).
Once you have cookies, crush them until you have 2 cups worth of crumbs. Melt 7 TBS butter and stir into the crumbs. Press the crumbs into a pie plate and chill.
For the custard:
1 cup sugar
2 TBS coca
2 TBS flour
pinch of salt
2 eggs separated
1 cup milk
1 TBS butter
1 TSP vanilla
In a large saucepan combine sugar, cocoa, flour, and salt. Mix well. Stir in egg yolks and milk, whisk all ingredients, cook over medium heat until the mix forms a pudding consistency. Remove from heat, add butter and vanilla. Pour into pie crust.
For the meringue, whisk 2 egg whites until foamy. Slowly add in 1/4 cup white sugar. Beat until white forms stiff peaks, spread over custard, and bake at 400 for 5-6 minutes.
This pie can be served warm or chilled.
It's really yummy!
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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