Chocolate Chess Pie

Name: Chocolate Chess Pie
Yield: Serves 8 to 12
Ingredients: 1 (9-inch), store-bought pie dough round; 12 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 12 pieces; 3 ounces, unsweetened chocolate, chopped; 1 1/2 cups (10 1/2 ounces) plus 1 teaspoon, sugar; 1 teaspoon, sugar; 3 tablespoons, all-purpose flour; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 4 , large eggs plus 2 large yolks; 1/4 cup, heavy cream; 1 1/2 teaspoons, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2015

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Dessert Pies

We knew that introducing smooth, silky chocolate to this simple Southern pie would instantly elevate the dish, if only we could make it work. (We did.)

SERVES8 to 12

TIME1¾ hours, plus 4½ hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

A catchall term for a kind of one-crust custard pie, English settlers brought chess pie to the new world as early as the 17th century. Originating from an archaic English spelling of cheese (“chese”), this word was used to signify the types...

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