Chocolate Chess Pie

Chocolate Chess Pie is specified a elemental pastry to marque with truthful overmuch cocoa spirit that requires minimal effort. One vessel and a fewer minutes of clip are each you request to hole this pie. Serve with caller whipped pick and you person an astonishing confederate dessert.

A Classic Southern Recipe

Pies are 1 of my implicit favourite things to devour and I particularly similar simple, old-fashioned pies similar this Chocolate Chess Pie. Chess pies are truthful speedy and casual to marque and lone necessitate a fewer basal ingredients. Typically chess pies incorporate flour, sugar, food and eggs.

This Chocolate Chess Pie is wonderfully saccharine and afloat of cocoa flavor. It has a custard filling that is rich, but not excessively dense and I similar to service it either astatine country somesthesia oregon chilled.

Bake successful Advance

For champion results, cook a time successful beforehand and chill overnight. If you effort and portion it close aft baking, the filling volition beryllium runny. I emotion to refrigerate Chess Pie, but it volition beryllium good near connected the antagonistic astatine country somesthesia for a fewer days.

Quick and Easy Pie Recipe

This Chocolate Chess Pie is specified an casual pastry to make  and lone a fewer ingredients are needed. It’s ace sweet, creamy, and delicious with plentifulness of cocoa flavor. I usually usage a store bought pastry crust and past it lone takes a fewer minutes to prep this pie. Forty-Five minutes aboriginal you person a fantastic homemade dessert to service with supper. I similar to service it with whipped pick that’s hardly been sweetened to chopped the sweetness of the pastry some.

Next to Chocolate Meringue Pie, this is astir apt my favourite cocoa pastry to make. The apical develops a thin, crackly furniture and the filling underneath is truthful creaseless and creamy. It’s genuinely a decadent dainty that volition transport you backmost successful clip to your grandmother’s kitchen. If you’re feeling adventurous, you tin besides marque a homemade pastry crust for this recipe.

Why Do They Call It Chess Pie?

The root of the sanction is debated. One mentation is that it comes from the word “cheese pie” since the filling of the pastry resembles the texture and colour of a creamy food (not the cocoa mentation erstwhile it comes to colour of course). Another mentation is the sanction evolved from “chess pie” which was a word utilized for pies stored successful a pastry chest.

If you’d similar to marque a homemade pastry crust for this look ticker the video below. Linda Carman, the caput of the trial room astatine Martha White, shows maine however to marque an easy, flaky pastry crust.

Have a fantastic week afloat of pie!

More Chess Pie Recipe To Try

• Caramel Chess Pie
• Lemon Chess Pie
• Southern Chess Squares
• Blueberry Buttermilk Pie– precise akin to chess pie.

Watch the abbreviated video beneath to spot however casual this look is to make:

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Chocolate Chess Pie

This Chocolate Chess Pie volition marque you consciousness similar you are sitting successful your grandmother's kitchen. It is affluent creamy and truthful saccharine and afloat of cocoa flavor! It's a classical confederate dessert that has stood the trial of time.

Course Dessert

Cuisine Southern

Keyword chocolate pie

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes minutes

Servings 8

Calories 360kcal

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2/3 cup evaporated milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• pinch of salt
• 4 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 (9-inch) uncooked pastry crust, store-bought oregon homemade
• whipped pick for serving

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degree.
  
  
  
•  In a mean bowl, whisk unneurotic sweetener and  cocoa pulverization until blended.
  
  
• Add eggs, evaporated milk, vanilla extract, salt, and butter. Mix good and determination into prepared pastry crust.
  
• Bake for astir 45 minutes. There volition inactive beryllium a small jiggle successful the mediate erstwhile you shingle it. Cool wholly earlier slicing. I similar to chill it successful the refrigerator earlier serving.
  
  
• Serve with whipped cream.

Notes

Store pastry successful refrigerator for up to 4 days.

Nutritional info is an estimation lone and volition alteration based connected brands of products used.

Nutrition

Calories: 360kcal | Carbohydrates: 53g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 62mg | Sodium: 185mg | Potassium: 147mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 40g | Vitamin A: 285IU | Vitamin C: 0.4mg | Calcium: 71mg | Iron: 1mg

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