French Silk Chocolate Pie

Name: French Silk Chocolate Pie
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 cup, heavy cream, chilled; 3 large, eggs; 3/4 cup (5¼ ounces), sugar; 2 tablespoons, water; 8 ounces, bittersweet chocolate, melted and cooled; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract; 8 tablespoons (1 stick), unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces and softened; 1 , (9-inch) pie shell, baked and cooled (see note)

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2009

Desserts or Baked Goods

SERVES8 to 10

TIME45 minutes, plus 3 hours chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Don't let the name fool you: the recipe for French Silk Pie was born in America. Created by Betty Cooper in 1951 for the third annual Pillsbury Bake-Off, this old-fashioned icebox chocolate pie is rarely made today, perhaps because it calls...

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