Starting today, I’m going to post a chocolate recipe a day for the next five days. I have a serious chocolate craving and, by golly, I aim to satisfy it. I am not a chocaholic (I’d choose a citrus dessert over a chocolate one in a restaurant), but once in a great while, I get chocolate brain.
This month for You Want Pies with That?, Rebecca at Ezra Pound Cake and Mary at Alpineberry chose “Taste of Summer” as the theme. For me, summer means fruit, berries to be precise. But I’ve made so many berry pies that a desire to do something different, combined with an intense craving for chocolate, resulted in this marvel of deliciousness, Ye Olde Chocolate Cream Pie. I’d never made it before, and I’m glad my recent chocolate jag led me to take the plunge. (Wow, whipped cream is hard to photograph).
Some friends of ours recently had a second child, and mom was out of town for the weekend, so we invited dad, the babies, and his visiting mom over for dinner. The pie was a hit, especially with their 19-month old daughter, who is not a big eater. Apparently, they had yet to try chocolate cream pie because after one bite of it, she pointed to it repeatedly, loudly proclaiming “PIE!” every time she wanted her dad to shovel some more into her mouth. Her sweet, chocolate-covered mouth. I love cooking. Moments like that make it all worthwhile. You can find the recipe after the jump, and check out the blogroll after July 7 to see what other pies everyone baked.
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