Chocolate Haupia Cream Pie

Name: Chocolate Haupia Cream Pie
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Ingredients: 1 (9-inch), store-bought pie dough round; 4 ounces, semisweet chocolate, chopped; 1 (13.5-ounce) can, unsweetened coconut milk; 1 cup, whole milk; 1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces), Sugar; 1/4 cup (1 ounce), cornstarch; 1/8 teaspoon, Salt; 1 cup, heavy cream, chilled; 1 tablespoon, Sugar

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2017

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Dessert Pies

The name takes some sounding out, but once we’d settled the recipe, this Hawaiian pie was the talk of the test kitchen.

SERVES8 to 10

TIME1½ hours, plus 45 minutes cooling and 3 hours chilling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The defining characteristic of this popular Hawaiian dessert is its firm haupia, pronounced how-PEE-ah, or coconut pudding, filling. Not the rich, ploppable stuff you usually think of as pudding, haupia is stable and slices cleanly: ¼ cup o...

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