Chocolate-mint sweetheart pie

8 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 Prepared; (9-inch) piecrust, baked and cooled
¾ cup Sugar
½ cup (1 stick) butter; softened
3 ounces Unsweetened chocolate; melted and cooled
1 teaspoon Vanilla
½ teaspoon Peppermint extract
3 larges Eggs
½ cup Heavy cream
1 tablespoon Sugar
¼ cup Heavy cream
Fresh strawberries

Directions

GARNISH

(Great American Home Baking)

Filling: beat together sugar and butter at medium speed until light and fluffy. Stir in melted chocolate, vanilla, and peppermint extract. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat together cream and sugar at medium speed untilsoft peaks form. Fold cream into chocolate mixture. Spoon filling evenly into prepared piecrust. Chill 4 hours. Beat cream at medium speed until soft peaks form. Using a pastry bag fitted with a star-tip, pipe a rosette in center of pie. Arrange strawberries on top.

Baking Tip: to glaze berries, heat 1/4c strawberry or currant jelly over low heat until dissolved. Arrange berries on top of pie and brush with the glaze.

Posted to EAT-L Digest by Abtaxel <Abtaxel@...> on Jan 21, 1998

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