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Gone to Heaven Dark Chocolate Pie

February 13, 2013

Gone to Heaven Dark Chocolate Pie

Some something magical happened at Christmas…

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My mom got me a 12-cup food processor. Oh, the joy! I have wanted a food processor for so long. I’ve managed to make pestos and sauces in our blender but it is just the same. So I knew having a food processor would making pesto, sauces, mayo, grated cheese, and ground meat so super easy. But best of all I was looking forward to making pie dough in it.

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I’ve been pinning different pies like crazy on Pinterst. My “Sweets-Pie” board is filing up. I have some plans to start to tackle the pins this spring. So, well, you’ve been warned. The first thing that jumped out to me was a Dark Chocolate Pie from One Ordinary Day and I knew I had to make it asap. But guess what… no need to use the food processor as it has a graham cracker crust. Well, go figure! ha!

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Making a graham cracker crust is so easy so I felt I should make my own instead of buying one. Plus this was when we were snowed in last week so going out for a pie crust was not an option. Just 3 ingredients and a bit of mixing and you’re already half way done to a homemade graham cracker pie crust. The one disadvantage of making the crust is that is thicker than a store-bought crust, which meant I could not get all of the pie filling in the pie. Oh the horror! A bowl of just chocolately pie goodness. noms!

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The pie is basically a cooked pudding so it is quick and easy to make. You really need to keep stirring the mixture while it is heating up since you don’t want clumps or for it to burn  to the pan. My mixture didn’t come to a boil as I have the tendency to burn milk to pans (and then subsequently swear at them or throw them out) so I cooked the filling on a medium-low heat. This meant the overall process took 25 minutes. The most important thing is for it to cook and thicken so I don’t really think boiling is key.

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Try this pie. You can whip it up easily. Perfect for Valentine’s day to show the person you love that they deserve something sweet (besides you). Or make these at any time to show yourself that you deserve the best chocolate pie.

Gone to Heaven Dark Chocolate Pie

Servings 12 slices

Ingredients

Graham Cracker Pie Crust

  • 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
  • 1/2 cup melted butter
  • 1/3 cup sugar

Chocolate Pie

  • 2/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup cornstarch
  • 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 3 cup milk, any fat content (I used 2% milk)
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 3/4 cups dark chocolate chips
  • whipped cream nad chocolate shavings, optional for garnish

Process

To create the pie crust:

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray a 9-inch pie plate non-stick cooking spray.
  2. Combine all of the ingredients.
  3. Evenly press the crust into the bottom and up sides of the pie plate.
  4. Bake for 10 minutes, until golden brown. Let cool completely.

To make the pie:

  1. Combine the sugar, cornstarch, and salt in a 2 quart saucepan.
  2. In a medium sized bowl, cmbine egg yolks and milk.  Slowly pour milk mixture into sugar mixture and stir to mix.
  3. Cook the mixture over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil.  Boil while continually stirring for 1 minute.  Remove from heat and stir in the butter and vanilla extract.  Add the chocolate chips and stir until chips are melted and the mixture is well blended.
  4. Pour into the graham cracker pie shell.  Lightly lay a piece of plastic wrap on top of pie filling before refrigerating for several hours until chilled.
  5. Garnish with whipped cream and shaved chocolate before serving.

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Oreo Peanut Butter Cups

February 12, 2013

Oreo Peanut Butter Cups

When I was in High School I used to make chocolate pops and candies. We won’t even talk about the number of molds I have! But one of my favorite things I used to make where peanut butter cups. I used to make tiny ones using a mold and bigger ones using a cupcake tin with wrappers. Well I was thinking about all the recently and was thinking about how much fun it was to make the peanut butter cups and decided I’d make a batch. And then I got to thinking…

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I was thinking about how I often use Oreos at the bottom of mini cheesecakes (another new recipe next week!) so it got me thinking into using a peanut butter Oreo at the bottom of the peanut butter cup. I’d start the process like normal with some chocolate in the wrapper and then slip an Oreo in before the peanut butter. This would make some some great layers in the peanut butter cup. Plus more chocolate and peanut butter can’t go wrong!

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If you love peanut butter or Oreos or chocolate you will love these. I’ve already had requests to make more.

Oreo Peanut Butter Cups

Makes 9

Ingredients

  • 9 peanut butter Oreos
  • 11.5 oz bag of milk chocolate, such as Ghirardelli’s Milk Chocolate Baking Chips
  • 2/3 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • pinch of kosher salt

Process

  1. Line a muffin tin with 9 cupcake wrappers
  2. Melt the milk chocolate. Put a 1 1/2 tablespoons of chocolate in each wrapper. Pull the chocolate half way up the wrapper.
  3. Put an Oreo cookie in each wrapper, pushing it down into the chocolate.
  4. Microwave the peanut butter until warm and easy to mix, approximately 30 seconds. Mix the powdered sugar and talk into the peanut butter. Spray your hands with no stick spray then divide the peanut butter mixture into 9 even balls and then work into disks the size of Oreos.
  5. Press the peanut butter disk on top of the Oreo cookie. Then cover the peanut butter completely with the remaining chocolate.

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