Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie
By: Tina Butler
Published: Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 6:51am

Ingredients




1 package Pillsbury Pie Crust (one crust) or Homemade
1 cup Sugar
1/4 cup Cornstarch
pinch of Salt

1 tablespoon heaping  of unsweetened baking cocoa
2 cups carnation evaporated milk or whole milk
3 eggs, separated - reserve egg whites
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 tablespoons butter
Meringue Topping:

3 reserved egg whites
dash cream of tarter

2 tablespoons sugar or
use Meringue Powder

Preparation

1 Preheat Oven to 350. Prick the bottom and sides of your pie crust and bake until golden brown. Remove from oven and let cool while you prepare the filling. Mix the sugar, cornstarch and cocoa together in a medium size pot. Add the 2 cups evaporated milk or whole milk. If using evaporated milk I use a 12 oz can, measure one cup evaporated milk add to the pot and then measure one more cup evaporated milk. you will be a bit short it comes to more like 3/4 cup so fill the rest of the measuring cup with water to make a cup. Using a wire whisk blend together and stir constantly over medium high heat. When the mixture is heated through add 2 If using Meringue Powder omit the egg whites and sugar. Follow the directions on the back of the can of the Meringue Powder for pies. I doubled the meringue recipe.

About


Everyone loves a good old-fashioned homemade pie for the holiday. I love pumpkin and pecan pie, but my most favorite is Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie. This Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe is amazing! It is rich and velvety, sweet and thick just like an old fashoined chocolate pie should be. The chocolaty pudding filling is so comforting because it’s the way Mom and Mamaw used to make it. I have been making this pie for over 15 years I love old fashoined desserts they have to be my absoulute favorite. Ya know the ones old fashioned cream pies like chocolate, coconut or banana, lemon ice box pie or homemade banana pudding from scratch. Red velvet cakes, coconut cake, marble cake, sock it to me cake or a sunshine cake. Chocolate pudding from scratch and one of my favorites.