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Classic Chocolate Cream Pie




Source of Recipe


Easy Home Cooking


List of Ingredients




2-1/2 bars (1oz each) Hershey's unsweetened baking chocolate, broken into pieces
3 cups milk, divided
1 1/3 cups sugar
3 tbsp all-purpose flour
3 tbsp cornstarch
1/2 tsp salt
3 egg yolks
2 tbsp butter or margarine
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 baked (9-inch) pie crust, cooled


Recipe



Combine chocolate and 2 cups milk in medium saucepan; cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, just until mixture boils. Remove from heat and set aside.

Stir together sugar, flour, cornstarch and salt in a medium bowl. Whisk remaining 1 cup milk into egg yolks in a seperate bowl; stir into sugar mixture. Gradually add to chocolate mixture. Cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, until mixture boils; boil and stir 1 minute. Remove from heat; stir in butter and vanilla.

Pour into prepared crust; press plastic wrap directly onto surface. Cool; refrigerate until well chilled. Top with whipped cream if desired.