Chocolate Marble Cream Cheese Pie

Cream cheese and semisweet chocolate filling highlighted with sugar, vanilla, egg and whipping cream. Spooned into a chocolate cookie crumb crust and garnished with strawberries and pecans.
Ingredients -
Cookie Crust:
1 1/2 cups Chocolate Cookie Crumbs
2 tablespoons Granulated Sugar
6 tablespoons melted Butter

Filling:
8 ounces Cream Cheese, softened
1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
2 Egg Yolks
1 teaspoon Unflavored Gelatin
1/2 cup Water
1 cup Whipping Cream
4 ounces Semisweet Chocolate, melted

Strawberries, optional
Pecan Halves, optional

 
Preparation:
Pie Crust:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.

2. Combine cookie crumbs, granulated sugar, and melted butter in medium bowl. Mix well.

3. Press mixture into 9-inch pie plate.

4. Bake 8 minutes. Cool.


Pie Filling:

1. In mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, granulated sugar, and vanilla extract until smooth.

2. Add yolks one at a time to mixture. Beat until each is well blended with cream cheese mixture.

3. In small saucepan over low heat, combine gelatin and water. Stir until gelatin is well dissolved.

4. Cool gelatin mixture slightly and beat gelatin mixture into batter.

5. Combine melted chocolate with ¾-cup batter.

6. Whip whipping cream until soft peaks form.

7. Fold half the whipped cream into chocolate batter.

8. Fold half the whipped cream into vanilla batter.

9. Using a large spoon, place spoonfuls of chocolate and vanilla batter into cookie crumb crust.

10. Using knife, swirl batter to form marble pattern.

11. Chill at least 3 hours. Garnish with strawberries and pecans.

 



Cooking Tip
Melting Chocolate
When melting chocolate, it is best to use a double boiler, also known as a bain marie. This french technique is simply a pan of boiling water with a bowl suspended over the top of it.

Cooking Tip
Paring Knife and Cake Server
For perfect slices of pie, use a very sharp paring knife to cut slices through to the pie pan, and a metal cake server to slip under individual pie pieces and lift them out.

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