CHOCOLATE CREAM PIE ~ Tuesdays With Dorie Chocolate Pudding
Chocolate Pudding Recipe
I was soooo very excited when the Chocolate Pudding recipe was chosen for this weeks
Tuesdays With Dorie challenge. You see, I made this a few months ago, and smart girl that I was, I took tons of pictures, just in case. Just in case the Chocolate Pudding recipe was chosen! You see the connection? My mind is always spinning!
Thanks to Melissa from It's Melissa's Kitchen for picking Chocolate Pudding from Baking: From My Home To Yours on page 383. That's if you have your own book, which you should have already. If you haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet and joined the other 225 other Tuesdays With Dorie's baking fools that obsess each and every Tuesday over the baked good of the week, well then, you can find this Chocolate Pudding Recipe by clicking on Melissa's blog.
What? No Food Processor?
Living on a small boat presents certain challenges from time to time and this was no exception. There just wasn't room for a regular sized food processor on NIRVANA. I was lucky at the time to have my little Hamilton Beach hand held mixer! Things have changed drastically since then, (new boat, new mixer, new food processor) but at the time I had to have my homemade Chocolate Pudding. I brought back one of my baked pie shells from a recent visit to Vermont and I was in business! I followed the recipe to the letter, except that I used my mixer instead of the food processor.
I read the directions again after I made the pudding and decided it was a good thing I used the mixer instead. Clean up was a lot quicker with less to wash, that's for sure! And the mixer produced the same results. A nice creamy, luscious Chocolate Pudding! I've read a few other TWD blogs today and they too have decided that the clean up was also a mess and if they ever made the pudding again, they would definitely go back to their own method. Dorie's recipe was fantastic and I would use it again and do it just the way I did it this time...with a mixer and far less bowls!
Chocolate Cream Pie
So, what do you do with a big pot of chocolate pudding? I'll tell you what I did. I made a Chocolate Cream Pie! Here's my tried and true Best Ever Flaky Pie Crust Recipe that I've been making for 200 years! It always comes out perfect. No holes, no tearing, you don't have to chill it or roll it between stupid pieces of plastic wrap. I taught John and my sons how to make this crust years ago and if a bunch of He-Man guys can make a pie crust, then you can too! And if you don't have a rolling pin, then use a chilled bottle of white wine to roll your pie crust. Why a chilled bottle? Silly baker! So you can drink it when you're done making your pie crust!
How-To Decorate A Chocolate Cream Pie
So, I poured the hot pudding into the baked pie shell, put a piece of plastic wrap over the top so it wouldn't form a skin and put it in the mini bar...I mean mini fridge! I let it cool completely, then whipped up a big batch of sweetened whipped cream, spooned it into a pastry bag fitted with a large star tip and piped billowy clouds of cream on top of the pudding. Then I decorated it with mini chocolate chips and Chocolate Ganache. Yowsa! What an awesome combination! Chocolate Heaven on Earth! John and I have a saying for food that knocks our socks off, but this is a family-friendly blog, so I really can't say it here. I'll only allude to what it is, OK? We'd say "That's a Chocolate Or***m!" And so it was!
Sweetened Whipped Cream Recipe:
- 2 cups cold heavy cream
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
- Whip cream on medium-high speed using a hand-held or stand mixer until almost stiff. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla and whip until stiff. Pipe or spread on pie.
Pudding Skin or No Pudding Skin? That is the question!
Oh, and the age old debate continues ~ pudding skin or no pudding skin? What do you like best? My Grandma made the best Chocolate Cream Pie evah! I was a kid back then, but I always remember her making my favorite pudding...with an extra little bowl just for me, with skin! I loved chocolate pudding skin! And to this day, mmmm years later, I still absolutely and totally love pudding skin! Course, you can't make skin with the new and improved instant boxed puddings! It has to be made the old fashioned way...ya gotta cook it. So, when I made this Chocolate Cream Pie, sweet memories flooded my soul and I was right back in Grandma's kitchen - flour everywhere, pots and pans in the sink and a little girl with a chocolate smudge on her face and a bowl of pudding skin! And Cindy, if you're reading this, and I know you are, it'll take you back too!
Make Some Chocolate Pudding...NOW!
- So, here's your assignment:
- Click on my Flaky Pie Crust Recipe and print it off.
- Click on How To Roll A Pie Crust Without A Rolling Pin (it's just a few posts down!).
- Click on Melissa's blog for Dorie's Chocolate Pudding Recipe and maybe you can print it off.
- Make some sweetened whipped cream (see above recipe).
- Then, pour a BIG glass of milk, get comfy and browse through some of the Tuesdays With Dorie blogroll to see some more spectacular Chocolate Pudding photos!
Ooh chocolate pie! Looks delish!
Posted by: Rachelle ~ | July 16, 2008 at 12:12 AM
Your pie is beautiful! You've inspired me to get out the old pastry bag next time.
Posted by: Barbara | July 16, 2008 at 03:09 AM
this is the most gorgeous pie - i made the pudding yesterday, and now i guess i need to make another batch to use in a pie like this one. my thighs thank you. :)
Posted by: Lori | July 16, 2008 at 04:04 AM
I had planned to make pie too, but couldn't wait to eat - no patience. Looks great!
Posted by: Holly @ PheMOMenon | July 16, 2008 at 04:58 AM
Wow, how beautiful is that pie?? Almost too cute to eat... ok, I'd probably eat it anyway. Tuesdays with Dorie looks like a lot of fun! Do you always use the From My Home to Yours book, or others too? I'd like to do it, but I can't go out and buy a million books just right now. And if you're busy one week, is it forgivable to miss a TwD?
Posted by: Stephanie | July 16, 2008 at 05:02 AM
that is the way to use this pudding. looks like i have something else to try!
Posted by: Sarah | July 16, 2008 at 06:05 AM
Your pie looks beautiful! Such nice details with your decorating :)
Posted by: Rigby | July 16, 2008 at 07:02 AM
That looks so great - I am drooling over this one as chocolate is my weakness..
YUMMMMMMMM
Cheers
Cathy
www.wheresmydamnanswer.com
Posted by: Cathy | July 16, 2008 at 08:17 AM
How you cook on a boat, I'll never know! And make things look so beautiful and professional to boot! My father LOVES pudding pie, so I'm going to have to follow in your footsteps and make this for him when I visit him this weekend!
Posted by: Teanna | July 16, 2008 at 08:43 AM
Great post. I love the pastry bag artwork too. :-D
Posted by: Kristy - Where's My Damn Answer | July 16, 2008 at 09:06 AM
What a wonderful job you did! Your pie looks amazing and so do the pictures (good enough to eat!). Chocolate pudding will never be the same.
Posted by: Liliana | July 16, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Did I read this right? Did you do this on a boat???? Holy cow, this is fantastic. I have the same memories with chocolate pudding with skin from our boarding school.
Posted by: nina | July 16, 2008 at 10:04 AM
AH! is there anything more delicious than a chocolate cream pie? from your photos - nope. i want a slice!
Posted by: Becky | July 16, 2008 at 10:09 AM
That looks wonderful!
Posted by: Melissa | July 16, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Nice looking pudding pie!
Posted by: noskos [Living the Life] | July 16, 2008 at 11:04 AM
I was planing on making the pudding again, but now I think I'm going to make pudding pie!
Posted by: Madam Chow | July 16, 2008 at 02:05 PM
I was planing on making the pudding again, but now I think I'm going to make pudding pie!
Posted by: Madam Chow | July 16, 2008 at 02:05 PM
Awesome. Love those 'billowy clouds' of cream :D
Posted by: Y | July 16, 2008 at 03:52 PM
What a pretty, pretty pie. Great job!
Posted by: Dragon | July 16, 2008 at 05:35 PM
mmm.sooo pretty! Oh and I bet it was just delicious!!
Posted by: Leslie | July 16, 2008 at 06:37 PM
You did it, again! The pie looks good enough to eat. Send me some.
Posted by: Karen R | July 16, 2008 at 07:52 PM
I KNEW this pudding would be great in a pie ~ thank you for confirming it! Your pie looks delicious.
Posted by: Nancy @ A Recipe A Day | July 17, 2008 at 05:37 AM
OMG, it looks ever so scrumptious and beautiful! A wonderful treat!
cheers,
Rosa
Posted by: Rosa | July 17, 2008 at 07:33 AM
I love how you sound so enthusiastic, lol. Makes me want to go out and try this again.
Your pudding-pie looks FAN-tastic!
Posted by: JacqueOH | July 17, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Very very impressive. I love it!
Posted by: Jules | July 17, 2008 at 12:40 PM