Chocolate Pie

Chocolate pie

This is one I tried for the first time recently, It really is easy, and makes a spectacular dessert.

Ingredients:

85g Plain Chocolate
55g Butter or Margarine
3 Tbsp Golden Syrup
3 Eggs, Beaten
140g Caster Sugar.
1 Tsp Vanilla Essence
115g Milk Chocolate
500ml Whipping Cream

For The Pastry:

165g Plain Flour
½ Tsp Salt
115g Lard or Baking Margarine
2-3 Tbsp Iced Water.

1: Preheat the oven to 220 C/ Gas 7

2: Make the pastry, Sieve the flour and salt into a mixing bowl, cut in the fat until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Slowly sprinkle in the water and gently mix with a fork until it forms a ball.

3: Roll out the pastry on a floured surface, then place it in an 8 or 9 inch (about 20cm) pie tin.

4: Prick the pastry gently with a fork, all over the base and sides; this will help stop it from puffing up. Bake for about 10-15 minutes or until lightly browned.
Remove from the oven and place on a wire rack to cool, in its tin.
Note: I trimmed the edges of the pastry in the above picture, and it shrank, trim once its cooked..

5: Put the plain chocolate in a Pyrex bowl with the margarine and golden syrup. Put the bowl over a pan of lightly simmering water so the contents melt together. Don’t heat it too hard, or the chocolate will solidify.

6: remove the bowl from the heat and stir in the eggs, vanilla and sugar.

7: Reduce the oven temp to 180 C/ Gas 4. Pour the chocolate mixture into the pie case and bake for about 35 – 40 minutes, or until the filling is set. It will rise quite a bit and may look a bit like a soufflé. Remove it from the oven and let it cool.

8: Whip the cream until soft peaks form, and spread it over the pie with a spatula.

9: With a potato peeler, shave curls off the bar of milk chocolate. Use these to decorate the pie.

Great Isn't it.