Ok, so the Valentine’s Day Feast that I posted about yesterday is probably a little bit ambitious. Do-able, but ambitious. If you aren’t really feeling up to preparing a 3 course meal for your true love and accompanying little ones but you still want to make something sweet for your sweetie – then YOU MUST MAKE THIS PIE.
Seriously. This pie whips up so fast and is so delicious there’s really no reason not to run out to the store to pick up the ingredients and make it right now. It’ll keep in the fridge just fine until Valentine’s Day. Though, I doubt anyone in your house will have the will power to hold off until then.
There are only 5 ingredients, so you can even use the express check-out line when you get to the store. What’s that you say? It’s -12 C outside and there’s 20 cm of snow on the ground? Still totally worth the drive.
I’ve adapted the recipe very slightly from where I first found it, mostly to get a thicker crust. In a pie, I think it’s important for slicing and serving to have a properly thick crust.
I have just a couple of other notes, too. One standard size can of coconut milk should be about 14floz (I wasn’t sure and my mL to floz conversion in my head wasn’t quit right). Also, the bags of semo-sweet chocolate chips that I had access to (President’s Choice brand) were just a tad shy of 120z, so I had to buy two bags but the 2nd bag is still mostly full and ready for my next batch of cookies. Oh! And while we’re talking about chocolate, don’t feel as if you have to use chocolate chips. The next time I try this pie I’m going to try it with a higher quality chocolate.. maybe Lindt or Valrhona. You’d have to chop the chocolate, but I suspect the flavour would be amazing. If you do use a higher quality chocolate, try to buy something around the 60-70% cocoa range in a dark chocolate and definitely melt it in a double boiler. Nothing ruins the fun like a pile of burned chocolate that you just spent good money on.
The last thing I want to say, really, is that this pie is easy as.. well, you know. I hesitate to get punny. For reference, though, you can see in the 3rd photo that my pre-schooler was helping me with the pie (note, it’s a kid friendly recipe) and when we weren’t working on it, we had a pretty solid game of Snakes and Ladders going on the sidelines.
Heavenly Chocolate Pie
Adapted only very slightly from Wendy and Rebecca Woolf
(who apparently got it from Cooking with Trader Joe’s)
Ingredients
2 cups of chocolate cookie baking crumbs
1 stick or 8 tablespoons of unsalted butter, melted
12 oz of semisweet chocolate chips
14 oz light (or not) coconut milk
1 cup whipping cream
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Measure cookie crumbs into a bowl. Pour in melted butter and pulse till combined. Press crumbs firmly into an oven-safe pie dish.
- Bake crust for 5 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely.
- Melt chocolate on stove-top, ideally in a double boiler, or in microwave. (Microwave for 1 minute and then in 30 second increments, stirring well in between until completely smooth and melted. Do not scorch.)
- Pour coconut milk into a blender and add melted chocolate. Immediately, blend until completely smooth (about 20-30 seconds).
- Pour filling into crust and chill for 4 hours or overnight in fridge.
- Whip cream with a bit of sugar and vanilla if you have it. Though, the pie is sweet enough that the cream doesn’t need a lot of added sugar.
- Top the pie with with whipping cream or pipe a creamy border around the edge. Cut and serve.
MOUTH is absolutely watering now. Gee I just might make this for myself on Valentines lol. Sass ya back
kevin 🙂
that pie looks REALLY good – I am not a fan of coconut though, does the taste really come through?
SASS
Yummy! That pie looks soooo….good!
That looks really good and so easy to make
looks delish!
Yummy!! Thanks for a recipe to add to my list
Wow! I think you are simply amazing. Your food always looks so delish 🙂
OMG. Chocolate is my weakness. This looks delicious and so easy and since you didn't say it, I will, EASY AS PIE. Thanks for sharing. I haven't decided yet if I am going to indulge tomorrow.
Om nom nom… that's me eating this pie virtually! I'm a huge chocoholic! Totally salivating after the picture. Must. Make. This!
Thanks for all your tips, so I can recreate this to it's beautiful glory!
For those of you worried about not liking coconut, we were pretty skeptical of the coconut milk ourselves (I'm Rebecca's husband), but in the end, we couldn't really taste it. If the flavour does come through, it's fairly subtle. Mostly this pie just taste chocolaty and delicious!
This Heavenly Chocolate Pie looks delicious and, judging from its contests, will taste heavenly as well. I can’t wait to make it for a special occasion. Thank you so much for the recipe.
This pie looks decadent –yummy!
I love anything with coconut milk! Your title of the post really attracted me to click into it. Pure heaven!!
I just have to make this! I’ve pinned it for later today until I get my semi-sweet chocolate chips for it. It sounds so yummy and hubby will love the surprise for supper tonight!! 🙂
This pie looks so good. I feel like I have gained 5 lbs looking at the picture but I’m still going to try it LOL
Thanks for sharing,your pie looks amazing.