French Silk Pie

Name: French Silk Pie
Prep time: 2 h 55 min
Cook time: 2 h 55 min
Total time: 2 h 55 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Mediterranean, French, European
Ingredients: 79 milliliters butter, melted; 4 eggs, cold; 12 larges 12 graham crackers (the 4-section large pieces); 355 milliliters heavy cream; 59 milliliters powdered sugar; 237 milliliters (2 sticks) salted butter, softened but still cold; 1 semisweet chocolate, for grating; 79 milliliters sugar; 355 milliliters sugar; 113 grams unsweetened baking chocolate; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

The recipe French Silk Pie could satisfy your Mediterranean craving in roughly 2 hours and 55 minutes. One portion of this dish contains roughly 6g of protein, 48g of fat, and a total of 664 calories. This recipe serves 10. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of butter, baking chocolate, vanillan extract, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy.

Instructions

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For the crust: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

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Crust

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Oven

Crush the crackers in a food processor or resealable bag.

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Crackers

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Food Processor

Pour them into a bowl and stir in the melted butter and sugar. Press into a pie pan and bake until golden and set, 5 minutes.

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Butter

Sugar

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Oven

Pie Form

Bowl

Remove from the oven and set aside to cool slightly.

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Oven

For the filling: In a small microwave-safe bowl, melt the baking chocolate until stirrable (about 45 seconds on high). Set aside to cool.

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Unsweetened Baking Chocolate

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Microwave

Bowl

It is important for the bowl and ingredients to be cold for the next stage of making the filling--to get the right texture and result. In a large chilled bowl with an electric mixer, beat the sugar and butter until fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes.

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Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

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When the melted chocolate is cooled, drizzle it over the butter/sugar mixture.

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Chocolate

Butter

Sugar

Add the vanilla extract. Beat the mixture thoroughly until combined (on a stand mixer, you will be using the whisk attachment).

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Vanilla Extract

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Stand Mixer

Whisk

Turn your mixer to a medium speed and over a period of 15 to 20 minutes, add in the 4 cold eggs, one at a time, leaving about 5 minutes between each egg addition. Once the pie filling is well mixed, pour it into the baked pie shell, scraping every last speck of it out of the bowl. Smooth out the pie filling and place the pie in the refrigerator to chill for at least 2 hours (preferably longer).

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Pie Filling

Pie Crust

Speck

Egg

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Blender

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Add the heavy cream and sugar to the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment and whip until it is stiff. Cover the pies with a thick layer of cream. Grate the semisweet chocolate over the top.

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Semisweet Chocolate