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Chocolate: Chocolate Cake Pie

Source of Recipe

Ethel Warner


List of Ingredients

3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1 9 inch unbaked pastry shell
1/2 cup water
2 ounces semisweet chocolate
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup chopped walnuts


Recipe

In a large bowl, beat 1/2 cup of the butter with an electric mixer on medium speed 30 seconds. Add 3/4 cup sugar; beat until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and 1 teaspoon of the vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat flour mixture and milk alternately into egg mixture. Pour into pastry shell; set aside. Heat water and chocolate over low heat until chocolate melts. Stir in 2/3 cup sugar; heat just until boiling. Remove from heat; add remaining 1/4 cup butter and I teaspoon vanilla, stirring until butter melts. Pour chocolate mixture over batter in pie shell. Sprinkle with nuts. Bake in a 350ºF oven about 50 minutes. Cool about 30 minutes on wire rack. Serve warm or cool. Makes 10 servings.