Chocolate Pudding Pie
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Old Fashioned Chocolate Pudding Pie. Made completely by my kids, Olivia & Noah! Using a 50 year old recipe for homemade chocolate pudding as the filling in this simple but luscious pie.
Originally published June 28 , 2012.
2026 Note. 14 years later, Olivia is married and working in the tv and cinema field in Toronto. Noah continued baking, at establishments here in St John's and in Halifax. He recently started a new position as Head Pastry Chef for the relaunch of the incredible Mallard Cottage Restaurant in Quidi Vidi Village, here in St. John's. Time, it does fly.
Old Fashioned Chocolate Pudding Pie.
My son, who is 12 and my daughter, 14, are turning into able bakers in their own right. Both of them have no problem banging out a homemade chocolate cake, or a batch of cookies or cupcakes.
A couple of nights ago they announced they were going to make homemade chocolate pudding. The pudding recipe became the inspiration for their delicious Chocolate Pudding Pie.
The pudding recipe is one I often used as a kid. It brought back memories of my early days in the kitchen as we all enjoyed this creamy chocolate pie.
Sift the cocoa as well before using it. This recipe relies only in good quality cocoa for it's chocolatey goodness. So many older recipes only use cocoa, and many of them I still use.
To make it even more old fashioned use a butter pastry pie shell as I did when I was a kid.
My kids actually chose the cookie crumb crust on this occasion, but use whichever you prefer.
My pastry shell recipe can be found in my Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe.
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Chocolate Pudding Pie
Old Fashioned Chocolate Pudding Pie - using a 40 year old recipe for homemade chocolate pudding as the filling in this simple but luscious pie.
Ingredients
For the Chocolate Crumb Crust
- 1 ⅓ cups chocolate cookie crumbs
- 2 tablespoon sugar
- ⅓ cup melted butter
For the Chocolate Pudding Filling
- 2 ½ cups whole milk
- 4 rounded tablespoon flour
- 6 rounded tablespoon cocoa
- 1 cup sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 3 egg yolks
For the Vanilla Whipped Cream
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 2 tablespoon icing sugar, i.e. powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
To prepare the Chocolate Crumb Crust
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
- Mix together the cookie crumbs, sugar and melted butter.
- Press evenly into the bottom and sides of a greased 9 inch glass pie pan and bake for 10 minutes. Cool completely.
To prepare the Chocolate Pudding Filling
- In the microwave, scald the milk almost to the boiling point.
- Sift together the flour, cocoa, 1 cup sugar and salt. It is a good idea to run this mix through a sieve or flour sifter to ensure that there are no small lumps of cocoa in it.
- Add the mixture to a medium sized pot over medium low heat and immediately add about ⅓ of the milk, stirring constantly.
- When the mixture begins to thicken, add another third of the milk and when that begins to thicken, add the final third of the milk. You have to stir this continuously during the cooking time.
- In a large measuring cup, whisk together the 3 egg yolks.
- Before adding the whisked egg yolks you have to temper them with some of the pudding to ensure they don’t scramble and produce lumps. To do this, working as quickly as you can, remove the pot from the heat and just add a ladle full of the pudding mixture to the egg yolks, whisking constantly; then add them all at once back to the pudding mixture, still stirring the pudding constantly.
- Cook for another two to three minutes, stirring constantly.
- Pour the hot pudding into the prepared pie crust and cool completely in the fridge. To prevent a “skin” from forming over the pudding as it cools, cover the surface of the pie with plastic wrap if you like.
- When completely cooled and set, garnish the pie with vanilla whipped cream and grated chocolate before serving.
To prepare the Vanilla Whipped Cream
- Whip the cream, icing sugar and vanilla extract all together until firm peaks form. Spread or pipe onto the top of the pie before garnishing with chocolate if you like.
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Nutrition Information
Yield
10Serving Size
1 sliceAmount Per Serving Calories 406Total Fat 21gSaturated Fat 12gTrans Fat 1gUnsaturated Fat 7gCholesterol 104mgSodium 186mgCarbohydrates 52gFiber 1gSugar 44gProtein 5g
The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.
I made this recipe last weekend with two small changes. Used chocolate graham crackers (omitted sugar)for the crust and added a layer of chocolate ganache between the crust and pudding. It was amazing and so easy. Thank you for the recipe!
I can't wait to try this