Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Mocha Cream Pie

Move over chocolate cream pie!  Coffee's got you lot all jazzed upwardly together with turned you lot into ridiculously delicious Mocha Cream Pie ... alongside a java together with chocolate custard filling, within an Oreo crumb crust, all topped alongside java whipped cream.  It'll brand you boot patently chocolate cream pie to the curb, too.


Perhaps I should convey used decaf to brand this pie.  Allow me to explicate ...

I don't drinkable coffee.  Not a drop.

In fact, I drinkable rattling piddling caffeine at all.  In whatever form.

Not because I don't similar caffeine.  But because caffeine doesn't similar me.  Caffeine affects me a lot.  Like, if I drinkable a Diet Coke or then 10:00 inwards the morning, I'll convey a difficult fourth dimension falling asleep at 10:00 that night!  For real.  And I am bouncing off the walls.  My married adult man tin post away say inwards an instant if I've been drinking anything alongside caffeine ... fifty-fifty if it's hours later.  Oh, delight say me I'm non the entirely 1 who can't conduct maintain my caffeine!

So when I ate the entire slice of this pie at the terminate of the pie's photograph shoot, it was not a adept choice.

But there's to a greater extent than explanation required every bit to why ...


... together with that has to create alongside the idiosyncrasies of nutrient photography.

See, somehow ... together with I don't claim to convey any agreement what-so-ever of how ... infinite  and size seem to get, well, quite distorted when photographing food.  To 'look right,' things by together with large take away to live actually unopen together ... together with plates take away to live really total ... together with bowls of materials take away to live super heaped up.

And pieces of pie take away to live big.

So that slice of pie you lot run into on the plate inwards these photos is a really big slice of pie.

That I ate.

At close 2:00 inwards the afternoon.

Fortunately this pie's coffee-and-chocolate custard filling ... within an Oreo crumb crust ... topped off alongside java whipped cream ... is then ridiculously adept it's worth a nighttime of express sleep.

But side past times side fourth dimension ... together with ooohhhhhhh, at that spot will live a side past times side time, ... I intend I'll purpose decaf.




Mocha Cream Pie
Source:  Adapted from Southern Living Magazine, Mocha-Espresso Cream Pie, Nov 2013
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
Crust:
  • 2 c. finely crushed Oreos
  • 1/2 c. butter, melted
Mocha Filling:
  • 2/3 c. granulated sugar
  • 1/4 c. cornstarch
  • 2 T. instant java crystals
  • 2 c. half-and-half
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 2 oz. semi-sweet chocolate squares, chopped
  • 2 T. butter
Coffee Whipped Cream:
  • 2 c. whipping cream
  • 1 T. coffee liqueur (I purpose Kahlua)
  • 1/4 c. granulated sugar
Directions
  1. FOR THE CRUST: Stir together crushed Oreos together with melted butter until good combined. Press into the bottom together with upwardly the sides of a 9-inch pie plate coated alongside non-stick cooking spray. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Cool completely.
  2. FOR THE MOCHA FILLING: In a saucepan, whisk together granulated sugar, java crystals, together with cornstarch. In a bowl, whisk together half-and-half together with egg yolks. Whisk egg mixture into carbohydrate mixture a piddling at a time.
  3. Bring carbohydrate together with egg mixture to a boil over medium heat, whisking constantly. Once mixture begins to boil, boil for 1 minute, whisking constantly. Remove from heat.
  4. Melt semi-sweet chocolate squares (over depression estrus inwards a small-scale saucepan or inwards the microwave on high for close 1 minute). Add melted chocolate together with the 2 tablespoons butter to the carbohydrate mixture inwards the saucepan together with whisk in. Spoon into prepared cooled crust.
  5. Place plastic roll straight onto the surface of the pie filling (this helps forestall a cinema from forming). Refrigerate for at to the lowest degree four hours to chill completely.
  6. FOR THE COFFEE WHIPPED CREAM: Chill a large mixing bowl together with the beaters of an electrical mixer (or whisk attachment of a stand upwardly mixer) inwards the fridge for close xv minutes. Remove from the fridge together with pour the whipping cream together with java liqueur into the chilled bowl. Beat on medium-high speed until foamy. Gradually add together granulated sugar; compaction on high speed until soft peaks form.
  7. Spread whipped cream on overstep of pie. Garnish alongside shaved chocolate, if desired.
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