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Chocolate Angel Pie




Source of Recipe


Paula Deen


Recipe Introduction


This was so rich and so chocolate-y and so delicious!


List of Ingredients




Crust:
4 egg whites -- room temperature
1 cup sugar (original recipe was 1 1/3 cups)
2 teaspoons cornstarch
2 teaspoons white vinegar
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Filling:
2 (1 oz.) squares unsweetened chocolate
4 egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons water
1 cup heavy cream -- whipped

To finish:
1 cup heavy cream -- whipped
Chocolate shavings

Recipe



Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Grease a 9-inch pie pan.

To make the meringue, beat egg whites with a hand held electric mixer until soft peaks form. In a separate bowl, mix the sugar and cornstarch together, then add 2 tablespoons at a time to the egg whites, beating well between each addition. After the third addition, add the white vinegar. Before the last addition, add the vanilla extract. Place into the pie shell and press against sides to form a pie crust. Place in oven and turn off oven heat. Leave pie in oven at least 3 hours.

For filling, melt chocolate in a bowl over a double boiler. In another bowl, beat the yolks, sugar, salt, and water thoroughly. Stir mixture into melted chocolate. Cook mixture over double boiler stirring constantly until very thick. Cool mixture completely. Fold chocolate mixture into whipped cream. Pour into cooled shell and chill overnight.

Top with remaining whipped cream and garnish with chocolate shavings.

Yield: 6 to 8 servings

NOTES : I didn't get the meringue in the oven until 1:00 am and just left it there until morning. Also, I added a small amount of the whipped cream to the chocolate mixture to "lighten" it before I tried to fold it into the whipped cream. I think I also added a splash of vanilla to the cooked chocolate mixture. And I used my 9 inch pyrex deep dish pie pan. I served each piece topped with a dollop of whipped cream and shaved milk chocolate. Oh and it says 6 to 8 servings, but it's so rich that you can only eat a small piece so it's more like 10 to 12 servings.