Mocha Cream Pie

Name: Mocha Cream Pie
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp confectioners sugar; 59 milliliters cornstarch; 4 larges egg yolks; 473 milliliters half-and-half; 237 milliliters heavy cream, chilled; 1 Tbsp instant espresso powder; 14 Oreo cookies; 0 teaspoons salt; 1 pinch Pinch of salt; 85 grams semisweet chocolate, chopped; 118 milliliters sugar; 2 Tbsps unsalted butter, melted; 4 Tbsps unsalted butter, at room temperature; 28 grams unsweetened chocolate, chopped; 1 Tbsp vanilla extract

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Mocha Cream Pie a try. This recipe makes 12 servings with 358 calories, 4g of protein, and 26g of fat each. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of confectioners' sugar, cornstarch, salt, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

Make crust: Preheat oven to 350F.

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Crust

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Oven

Place cookies and salt in a food processor and blend until cookies are ground.

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Salt

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Pour in melted butter and pulse until crumbs are moistened.

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Butter

Transfer to a 9-inch pie dish and press crumbs evenly over bottom and up sides to form a crust.

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Crust

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Pie Form

Bake for about 15 minutes, until firm.

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Oven

Let cool on a wire rack.

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Wire Rack

Make filling: In a small cup, combine vanilla and espresso powder until coffee has dissolved.

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Instant Espresso

Vanilla

Coffee

Mix 1 cup half-and-half with both chocolates in a saucepan and place on stove over medium-low heat. Cook, whisking often, until chocolates have melted and mixture is hot, about 5 minutes (it may look grainy). In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, cornstarch and salt.

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Corn Starch

Sugar

Salt

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Whisk

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Pour remaining cup of half-and-half into sugar mixture and whisk until no lumps remain.

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Sugar

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Whisk

Whisk in yolks.

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Egg Yolk

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Whisk

While whisking cornstarch mixture constantly, slowly pour in hot chocolate mixture. When both mixtures are combined, pour back into saucepan, place on stove over medium-low heat and cook, whisking constantly, until thickened and beginning to boil, 5 to 7 minutes.

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Hot Chocolate

Corn Starch

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Whisk

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Pour hot pudding into a clean medium bowl, and stir in butter and reserved vanilla-coffee mixture. Cover with plastic wrap, pressing plastic directly onto surface.

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Vanilla

Butter

Coffee

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

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Let pudding cool at room temperature for 1 hour, then pour into pie shell, cover with a fresh piece of plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 3 hours.

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Pie Crust

Wrap

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Make topping: A half hour before you're ready to serve the pie, pour heavy cream and confectioners' sugar into a chilled bowl and beat with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until firm peaks form.

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Powdered Sugar