Chocolate and Vanilla Cream Cheese Pie

Melted chocolate chips blended with cream cheese, brown sugar, salt, vanilla and egg yolks. Filling is combined with mixture of egg whites beaten together with brown sugar. Heavy cream is folded in and filling is spooned into homemade chocolate pie crust prepared from graham cracker crumbs, brown sugar, nutmeg, melted butter, and unsweetened chocolate.

Ingredients -
1 (9-inch) Chocolate Graham Crust (recipe follows)
1 (6 ounces) package Semisweet or Milk Chocolate Chips
1 (8 ounces) package Cream Cheese, softened
3/4 cup Light Brown Sugar
1/8 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 Eggs, separated
1 cup Heavy Cream, whipped

Chocolate Graham Crust:

1-1/2 cups Graham Cracker Crumbs
1/4 cup Brown Sugar
1/8 teaspoon Nutmeg
1/3 cup melted Butter
1 Square Unsweetened Chocolate, melted
 
Preparation:

1. Melt the chocolate chips over hot water, making sure the water is not boiling.

2. Cool the chocolate for 10 minutes.

3. Blend in the cream cheese, 1/2 cup brown sugar, salt and vanilla.

4. Beat in the egg yolks, one at a time.

5. Add in the chocolate stirring constantly to combine.

6. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until they are stiff but not dry.

7. Slowly beat in the remaining brown sugar.

8. Beat the mixture until stiff and glossy.

9. Fold the chocolate mixture into the egg whites.

10. Fold in the whipped heavy cream.

11. Pour the mixture into the chilled pie crust, reserving 1/4 of the mixture for decorating.

12. Refrigerate until the filing slightly sets.

13. Drip the reserved mixture into mounds on top of the pie using a tapered spoon.

14. Chill overnight.

Chocolate Graham Crust:

1. In a medium mixing bowl, combine all of the ingredients.

2. Mix thoroughly.

3. Press the crust mixture into a 9 inch pie plate.

4. Chill until firm.

 



Cooking Tip
Vanilla Beans

Vanilla beans take months of drying and curing to develop the flavor and fragrance we know as vanilla. The process is time and labor intensive and the reason why high quality vanilla products are costly.


Cooking Tip
Cream Cheese

Cream cheese is considered a fresh cheese as it is unripened. There is no aging process involved. Cream cheese is at least 33% fat (from cow’s milk), with water and emulsifiers added. Plain cream cheese has a fresh, neutral, slightly sweet, and slightly tangy flavor. In recent years light, no-fat, and flavored cream cheeses have been added to the product line. All of these products have a short shelf life and should be used within days of the packaging being opened.


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