Chocolate Chess Pie

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword chess-pie-recipes, chocolate-chess-pie

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 40

Cooling time 4

Total Time 4 50

Servings servings

Calories 389kcal

1 9 inch deep dish frozen pie crust or homemade
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
3 Tbsp cocoa powder (You can use either Dutch process or standard Hershey's cocoa powder)
2 Tbsp all purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
4 Tbsp salted butter
2 oz semi sweet baking chocolate
2/3 cup evaporated milk or half and half
2 large eggs room temperature
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
whipped cream or ice cream for serving

Preheat oven to 350°F. Center pie crust in pan on a baking sheet.
In a medium size mixing bowls, use a whisk to sift together sugar, brown sugar, cocoa, flour and salt
In a microwave safe bowl, melt together butter and chocolate on 50% power stopping to stir every 20 seconds. Repeat until smooth.
Whisk milk, eggs and vanilla into melted chocolate. Once combined, add wet ingredients to dry ingredients mixing until fully incorporated. Pour into pie crust.
Bake for 45 -55 minutes or until the center still has slight movement when gently shaken. Check at 30 minutes and tent loosely with foil to prevent over browning.
Cool completely on a cooling rack then chill thoroughly.
Cut into desired size pieces and serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

There's no need to thaw the frozen crust before baking.
The filling of this pie will puff up while baking, but will settle as it cools.
Should you choose to use a homemade pie crust dock the bottom using a fork, line with parchment and fill with pie weights or beans. Par bake for 6-8 minutes at 375°F before filling.