Best Ever Chocolate Silk Pie

• Vegetarian

• Refrigerated

  • 4 Pasteurized eggs

• Baking & Spices

  • 4 oz Baking chocolate, unsweetened
  • 1 3/4 cups Sugar
  • 2 tsp Vanilla

• Bread & Baked Goods

  • 1 (9 inch pie shell, baked

• Dairy

  • 1 cup Butter
  • 2 cups Heavy whipping cream

Found on chef-in-training.com

Ingredients

• 4 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1½ cups sugar
• 1½ teaspoons vanilla
• 4 pasteurized eggs
• 1 baked 9 inch pie shell
• 2 cups heavy whipping cream
• ⅓ cup sugar
• ½ teaspoon vanilla

Directions

• In a small microwave safe bowl, melt chocolate in 30 second increments, stirring in between each increment until smooth. Let cool down and set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream and beat butter and sugar for about 2 minutes until fluffy. Add melted chocolate to butter mixture. Add in vanilla and beat until combined.
• Continue to beat mixture for 15-20 minutes at medium speed, adding eggs in one at a time spacing them about 5 minutes apart before adding the next one.
• Pour into cool baked pie shell and evenly and carefully spread over pie. Cover and chill for 1-2 hours.
• Beat heavy cream on high, gradually adding in sugar and vanilla until soft peaks form.
• Spread or pipe prepared whipped cream over pie.
• Garnish with curled chocolate and cover and chill until ready to serve.
• I went the easy route and made my chocolate curls by shaving off chocolate from a giant chocolate block with my potato peeler. I even had some chocolate shavers, but actually preferred the potato peeler curls to those.