Fun With Baking: French Silk Pie
For the crust:
- 20 (230 g) Oreo cookies
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
For the filling:
- 1 1/3 cup (266 g) sugar
- 4 eggs
- 8 ounces (227 g) bittersweet chocolate chips, melted
- 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 1/3 cup heavy cream
- 4 teaspoons powdered sugar
For the topping:
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Dark chocolate shavings
- Place the Oreo cookies into a food processor and pulse until finely ground.
- Add the melted butter and pulse until just moistened.
- Press into a greased 9 inch deep dish pie plate and up onto the sides.
- Bake at 350 for 10 minutes or until the crust is set. Cool completely.
- In a small saucepan, whisk together the sugar and eggs and cook over medium heat whisking constantly until the mixture reaches 160.
- Stir in the melted chocolate and vanilla until smooth. Cool to just warm, stirring occasionally.
- In a large bowl, use a hand mixer to beat the butter until light and fluffy, 2-3 minutes.
- Gradually add in the chocolate mixture and beat on high until light and fluffy, 5 minutes.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, whisk the cream until it begins to thicken.
- Add the powdered sugar and beat until stiff peaks form.
- Fold in the chocolate mixture and pour into the pie crust. Refrigerate until completely chilled.
- In the stand mixer, beat the heavy cream, powdered sugar and vanilla until stiff peaks form.
- Top the pie with the whipped cream.
- Garnish with the dark chocolate shavings.
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My name is Kathryn. I live in suburban Cleveland. I have 2 cats, who are my kids. I work in early childhood education, specializing in infants at a local childcare center. I’ve also worked with preschoolers and school aged kids there. I used to be an ESL teacher in South Korea.
I love to bake. My coworkers get to be my taste testers. I enjoy coloring, and I even participate in a coloring Meet Up group. I’m a fan of all kinds of music, but country is my favorite. I started taking a tap class at a local dance studio. Ginger Rogers, I’m not. But I’m holding my own after *mumble years* away from it.
My kitties, Gidgette and Ivory, are my favorite models for my photography. I play around with photo editors to create what I call “Works of Art”. I’m not very good at it, but I do it anyway.
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