Chocolate pie in the skyyyyyyyy,
I can eat twice as hiiiiiiiiiigh!
Take a look! It’s on your fork!
It’s Mile-High Chocolate Piiiiiiiiiiie!
BYDHTTMYFI!
It really makes me mad that these pictures didn’t come out better…but c’est la vie! As usual, the next time is simply an opportunity for improvement.
Anyway, pie!
Pie is actually not my favorite dessert (anyone who’s been reading n00bcakes can attest to the fact that I hate pie crusts with an undying passion), but it was my father’s birthday, and doggone it if Dad doesn’t like pie. And because I love him, I made the ultimate dessert sacrifice and made him what he wanted, not what I wanted. I know, I know – send my name in for sainthood.
*cough* Of course, I did fill the pie full of chocolate. But…that wasn’t for me! That was for my mother, who like myself loves chocolate. I mean…she and Dad would have to share the pie…so she should like it too…right? >.>
Foldin’ foldin’ foldiiiin’….
So I needed a pie, and it had to be chocolate. Luckily I’d recently torn apart about a year’s worth of Bon Appetit’s, and had specifically filed away the Mile-High Chocolate Pie recipe for future usage. I was pretty excited – a mile is a really long way for a pie to go.
The recipe was a little putzy, but nothing terribly complicated. The biggest issue was having to clean out my mixer halfway through because it requires you to whip 2 ingredients to a proper state of fluffiness, though not whip them together. Oh, and it also required folding…not my favorite technique (as I am the consummate lazy baker), but not really complicated either.
Technically this pie takes almost no baking at all, only that of your crust (which yes, I did cheat with. Thank you, Publix pre-made crusts!). I should’ve let the crust cool a little longer before layering my ingredients – the first layer of mousse melted slightly as I began the layering – but my rush didn’t foul up the final result.
The pie was very sweet and fairly rich, but fun to eat since it was so tall. Would I make it again? Well, I’m definitely keeping the recipe, but it’s not something I’d make every week. Like I mentioned before, pie’s not my favorite type of dessert, and the amount of patience it takes to mix all the ingredients separately and then layer them together is not, in my opinion, the essence of efficient baked good-consumption.
Piieeeeee
But yes, it was definitely tasty.
BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT!
Mile-High Chocolate Pie Recipe
From Bon Appetit.