Smaller French Silk Pie – Cookie Insanity

CommercialFinal week I used to be feeling nostalgic and made a Dream Pie utilizing the recipe on the Dream Whip field. It’s the identical recipe from after I was 10, however as I tore open envelopes and dumped powder into the bowl I might odor disappointment. And my nostril was proper, as a result of the pie didn’t style practically pretty much as good as after I was a child. It simply didn’t dwell as much as my idealized model, so I made a decision to make up for it with a French Silk Pie.

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Origin of French Silk Pie

It feels compulsory to say that French Silk Pie is just not French. It’s an American invention most frequently credited to Betty Cooper, who gained $1,000 for it within the 1951 Pillsbury Bake-Off. Her model was an 8-inch pie, which was a preferred dish dimension again then. The pie is described as “magnificent, rich, creamy and smooth” and the large promoting level is that you simply don’t must cook dinner the butter, chocolate and uncooked egg filling. Yay! Or yay? Uncooked eggs.

French Silk Pie No-Cook dinner Filling

It’s at all times fascinating to see how French Silk Pie recipes cope with uncooked egg security. Cooking the filling is one technique, whereas some counsel utilizing pasteurized eggs or egg substitute. I nearly went with a cooked model, however my grocery retailer was utterly out of eggs (truck concern) and solely had a large carton of Egg Beaters. So I went with the Egg Beaters French Silk Pie.

Egg Beaters in French Silk

I like Egg Beaters. They’re stuffed with protein, low in energy, and pasteurized for security. Their taste has improved over time, and so they’re a bit of extra handy than earlier than. They was once offered frozen and also you’d must thaw every little carton earlier than utilizing, however now you should buy a carton of them, thawed and able to go. So I used two Egg Beaters rather than eggs on this pie and so they labored simply tremendous.

2 ouncesUnsweetened Chocolate

Some French Silk recipes name for semisweet chocolate, however for the reason that unique model used unsweetened, I used 2 ouncesof Ghirardelli unsweetened. Truly, I used barely over 2 oz. The recipe calls for two ouncesof unsweetened chocolate, however I melted it in my massive double boiler and didn’t wish to must obsessively scrape each millimeter of its floor to get all of the chocolate, so I used about 2 1/4 oz. I ought to have simply used the microwave.

Grainy Sugar and Butter

Whilst you don’t must cook dinner the filling, you do have to make use of a excessive pace mixer for at the very least 5 minutes to whip the sugar and butter. I began with chilly butter in order that I might beat it for a bit of longer and provides the sugar extra time to dissolve. After 5 minutes, the combination nonetheless felt a bit of grainy, however after every thing else was added and the pie sat, the graininess smoothed out. Cooking it could have been simpler.

9 or 8 Inch Gluten-Free Oreos Crust

Truth: They didn't have Gluten-Free Oreos in 1951. The unique crust was made with refrigerated pie dough, so plenty of fashionable variations name for that or a home made pastry crust. I wanted a gluten-free crust, so I used 21 Gluten-Free Oreos, 4 tablespoons of butter and a pinch of salt. This was sufficient for a shallow 9 inch crust, but additionally can be excellent for an 8 inch dimension pie, do you have to be fortunate sufficient to have an 8 inch dish. Yow will discover them here and there, however you could simply wish to do what I did, which was to make use of a 9 inch dish and make a shallower pie piled excessive with whipped cream.

Different Favourite Chocolate Pies

As a lot as I loved making this pie and making an attempt out the Egg Beaters, I've to agree with the one that marked up the previous recipe in my e book. French Silk Pie is simply too wealthy. However that fits some palates, so it’s nonetheless an awesome pie. My private favorites are Diner Type Chocolate Pie, Michele’s Good and the a lot much less wealthy however nonetheless scrumptious Earl’s. I additionally utterly forgot that I had an precise home made model of Dream Pie. What I liked most about this most up-to-date French Silk recipe was the Gluten-Free Oreos crust. It’s my new go-to crumb crust.

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Smaller French Silk Pie

Anna

A barely smaller French Silk Pie with an Oreo cookie crust.

Prep Time 3 minutes

Chilling 8 hrs

Whole Time 8 hrs 3 minutes

Course Dessert

Delicacies American

Components 

French Silk Pie Filling

• 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped (170 grams) — Use a bit of extra if wanted
• 3/4 cup sugar (150 grams)
• 1 stick unsalted (can use salted and omit salt) (114 grams)
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup Egg Beaters or 2 pasteurized eggs (100 grams)

Sweetened Whipped Cream — Enhance by 50% if Piping

• 1 cup heavy cream (230 grams)
• 3 tablespoons powdered sugar or extra to style (25 grams)
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions 

Oreo Crust

• In a meals processor, course of Oreos into tremendous crumbs. Add the melted butter (and salt if utilizing) and pulse till blended. Dump into an 8 or 9 inch pie plate and pack it down as neatly as you possibly can.

• Set on a baking sheet and bake your Oreo crust at 350 for 10 minutes. Let cool utterly.

Filling

• Soften the chocolate within the high of a double boiler or within the microwave. Let cool to only barely heat room temperature. If utilizing a double boiler, you may wish to soften 2 1/4 ouncesof chocolate or a bit of bit over 2 ouncesso that you simply will not must obsessively scrape the pan to get the total 2 ouncesinto the pie filling.

• In the meantime, reduce the chilly butter into chunks and put it within the bowl of a stand mixer with the salt and sugar. Utilizing the whisk attachment, start beating on low till the butter softens and is smushed in with the sugar. It'll nonetheless be a bit of chilly at this level.

• Enhance the mixer pace to excessive and proceed beating for five minutes, stopping a few instances to scrape the edges of the bowl. The objective is to dissolve the sugar and beat air into the butter, however even after 5 minutes the combination will nonetheless be a bit of grainy.

• After you have overwhelmed the sugar and butter collectively for about 5 to 7 minutes, test to see that the combination is just not too chilly. If the butter may be very chilly and the chocolate is cool, it might trigger the chocolate to lump, so it is higher ot have luke heat chocolate and a simply barely cool sugar/egg combination.

• Stir in melted chocolate and vanilla, scraping the edges of the bowl. Put the mixer again on the stand and start beating on low.

• Add the Egg Beaters (or eggs) progressively. When all the egg has been added, improve pace to excessive and whip for 1 1/2 minutes, scraping aspect of the bowl usually.

• Scrape combination into pie shell and easy high with a spatula. Cowl with plastic wrap and chill for at the very least 6 hours however ideally extra. This pie improves with an in a single day chill.

Sweetened Whipped Cream

• Put together whipped cream topping the day of serving.

• Whip cream till mushy peaks start to kind. Step by step add sugar and proceed beating simply till peaks are stiff. Beat in vanilla. Unfold or pipe over high of pie.

Notes

If you happen to plan on piping the cream over the pie or you're utilizing a 9 inch crust, make 1 1/2 instances the whipped cream, so 1 1/2 cups cream, 4 1/2 to five T. powdered sugar and three/4 teaspoon of vanilla.

Key phrase Egg Beaters, French Silk