French Silk Pie
 
Ingredients
  • Pie Filling
  • 6 oz unsweetened baking chocolate
  • 1½ cup salted butter
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 6 eggs
  • Crust
  • 1½ cups crushed graham cracker
  • ½ cup finely chopped walnuts
  • ⅓ cup sugar
  • 6 Tbsp butter
  • ¼ tsp cinnamon
  • Sweetened Whipped Cream
  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • 3 Tbsp powdered sugar
Instructions
  1. Start by making your crust. Combine graham cracker crumbs, sugar, finely chopped walnuts, melted butter and cinnamon until well blended. Press into a 9 inch pie plate. Reserve a couple of tablespoons for topping. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 minutes.
  2. Chill the pie crust while making your filling.
  3. Microwave your chocolate for about a minute, it should be melted and easy to stir. Set it aside to cool.
  4. In a mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. After the chocolate cools down--it really does need to be cooled or else it will melt your butter and sugar. Spoon the chocolate into the butter and sugar mixture. Add vanilla extract. Beat this mixture until thoroughly combined.
  5. While the mixer is going add one egg at a time with several minutes between each addition. Make sure the eggs are cool. It should take about 20 minutes to add all the eggs in. Scrape the sides and mix again. At this point it should be very well mixed, fluffy and absolutely delicious!
  6. Check to make sure the pie crust is completely cooled and then add the filling. Smooth it out and place it in the fridge to chill for at least 2 hours.
  7. Whip the heavy cream and powdered sugar until it forms peaks and then spread over the top and let chill again. Sprinkle with graham cracker mixture to garnish!
Recipe by Messes to Memories at https://www.messestomemories.com/french-silk-pie/