Chocolate has me by the balls

[miles]

Saw a cooking show yesterday that featured homemade pies, and I made one last night. A chocolate cream pie with a crust made of 16 crushed oreo cookies (with the icing), a half pound of bittersweet chocolate, eggs, and butter, topped with real whipped cream. None of that instant pudding shit. We're talking crack here.

Tried the first slice after lunch. Another at 3:00. Then a big slice for dessert, and just to make sure it hadn't spoiled, one more around 10:00. Right now I'm thinking about cutting a small slice to have with a glass of milk right before going to bed, just to get me through the night.

They say the first step is admitting you have a problem. I'm powerless in the presence of chocolate.

I feel so dirty.

 

[BustyTheClown]

MMM... You and me both, miles. Care to share that pie with a lovely Lit poster? Either that, or share the recipe. Or both!

 

[Summery]

I want to come to your house for dessert.

 

[Wiggles]

I think I've just gained a pound reading that.

 

[red_rose]

I think I've just gained a pound reading that.

Holy smokes... me too.

drools....

 

[cymbidia]

I'm chewing on a chocolate caramel brownie as i type the words to this post. Sharffenberger chocolate, real caramel. I'm pms'ing bad, too, real bad. Don't get between me and my chocolate right now.

 

[morninggirl5]

I saw the same show, but it was the key lime pie that looked wonderful to me.



Somebody take my temperature fast, i must be seriously ill.

 

[MissTaken]

I want to come to your house for dessert.

Sweetie!

You could end up being dessert!


*Somebody had to say this. *




Yes...I, too, am a slave to chocolate. In particular, oreos and Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies are my obsession of choice these days.

 

[Summery]

Sweetie!

You could end up being dessert!


*Somebody had to say this. *




Yes...I, too, am a slave to chocolate. In particular, oreos and Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies are my obsession of choice these days.

LOL. Anything for chocolate!

Actually, I love anything that has chocolate and raspberries.

 

[BustyTheClown]

Now, now ladies, don't forget your manners -- I asked first. You can take the sex, I'll just take the cake. Er, pie.

 

[miles]

laurel

Fucknard? Is that a new word or a typo?

I like it, I like it!

 

[InnocentAngel81]

Saw a cooking show yesterday that featured homemade pies, and I made one last night. A chocolate cream pie with a crust made of 16 crushed oreo cookies (with the icing), a half pound of bittersweet chocolate, eggs, and butter, topped with real whipped cream. None of that instant pudding shit. We're talking crack here.

Tried the first slice after lunch. Another at 3:00. Then a big slice for dessert, and just to make sure it hadn't spoiled, one more around 10:00. Right now I'm thinking about cutting a small slice to have with a glass of milk right before going to bed, just to get me through the night.

They say the first step is admitting you have a problem. I'm powerless in the presence of chocolate.

I feel so dirty.

::drools:: chocolate cream pie, share the recipe, i would love to make it tonight but my family would kill it off before i get home from wwf.

 

[miles]

Don't say I didn't warn you

Chocolate Cream Pie

Serves 8 to 10
For the best chocolate flavor and texture, we recommend either Callebaut semisweet and unsweetened chocolates or Hershey’s Special Dark and Hershey’s unsweetened chocolates. Do not combine the yolks and sugar in advance of making the filling—the sugar will begin to break down the yolks, and the finished cream will be pitted.

Chocolate Cookie Crumb Crust
16 Oreo cookies (with filling), broken into rough pieces, about 2½ cups
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled

Chocolate Cream Filling
2 1/2 cups half-and-half
Pinch salt
1/3 cup (2.3 ounces) sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
6 large egg yolks, room temperature, chalazae removed
6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into 6 pieces
6 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
1 ounce unsweetened chocolate, finely chopped
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups Whipped Cream, whipped to soft peaks

1. For the crust: Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. In bowl of food processor fitted with steel blade, process cookies with fifteen 1-second pulses, then let machine run until crumbs are uniformly fine, about 15 seconds. (Alternatively, place cookies in large zipper-lock plastic bag and crush with rolling pin.) Transfer crumbs to medium bowl, drizzle with butter, and use fingers to combine until butter is evenly distributed.

2. Pour crumbs into 9-inch Pyrex pie plate. Press crumbs evenly onto bottom and up sides of pie plate. Once crumbs are in place, line pan flush with large square of plastic wrap, and use spoon to smooth crumbs into curves and sides of pan. Refrigerate lined pie plate 20 minutes to firm crumbs, then bake until crumbs are fragrant and set, about 10 minutes. Cool on wire rack while preparing filling.

3. For the filling: Bring half-and-half, salt, and about 3 tablespoons sugar to simmer in medium saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally with wooden spoon to dissolve sugar. Stir together remaining sugar and cornstarch in small bowl. Whisk yolks thoroughly in medium bowl until slightly thickened, about 30 seconds. Sprinkle cornstarch mixture over yolks and whisk, scraping down sides of bowl, if necessary, until mixture is glossy and sugar has begun to dissolve, about 1 minute. When half-and-half reaches full simmer, drizzle about 1/2 cup hot half-and-half over yolks, whisking constantly to temper; then whisk egg yolk mixture into simmering half-and-half (mixture should thicken in about 30 seconds). Return to simmer, whisking constantly, until 3 or 4 bubbles burst on surface and mixture is thickened and glossy, about 15 seconds longer.

4. Off heat, whisk in butter until incorporated; add chocolates and whisk until melted, scraping pan bottom with rubber spatula to fully incorporate. Stir in vanilla, then immediately pour filling into baked and cooled crust. Press plastic wrap directly on surface of filling and refrigerate pie until filling is cold and firm, about 3 hours.

5. Just before serving, spread or pipe whipped cream over chilled pie filling. Cut pie into wedges and serve.

 

[MorgaineLaFay]

Pure Evil...

 

[alexandraaah]

miles,
while I can't say I read your whole post...as reasons you know render me incapable, I do have to ask if you'd be willing to experiment with chocolate covered testicles.

Yum.

 

[miles]

lexanrdra

miles,
while I can't say I read your whole post...as reasons you know render me incapable, I do have to ask if you'd be willing to experiment with chocolate covered testicles.

Yum.

Huh? Oh, yeah. What did you say? Oh, I think. That's why I wrote it down

 

[alexandraaah]

Re: lexanrdra

Huh? Oh, yeah. What did you say? Oh, I think. That's why I wrote it down

Don't worry, I wrote it down too. It's somewhere in one of these papers, it's also in my palm pilot, Franklin Planner, on a matchbook in my wallet, on the floor of my car, somewhere in my purse and the scrolling marquee as my screen saver.

It's great when someone else gets it.

 

[miles]

Re: Re: lexanrdra

Don't worry, I wrote it down too. It's somewhere in one of these papers, it's also in my palm pilot, Franklin Planner, on a matchbook in my wallet, on the floor of my car, somewhere in my purse and the scrolling marquee as my screen saver.

It's great when someone else gets it.

I got tired of my planner because I couldn't read my own entries. So I bought a Palm with handwriting recognition. HA! That was a wise investment. I have sticky notes on the inside pockets of the case with phone numbers, appointments, etc.

Now I need something to organize my sticky notes.

Scorcher.

 

[alexandraaah]

Re: Re: Re: lexanrdra

I got tired of my planner because I couldn't read my own entries. So I bought a Palm with handwriting recognition. HA! That was a wise investment. I have sticky notes on the inside pockets of the case with phone numbers, appointments, etc.

Now I need something to organize my sticky notes.

Scorcher.

My problem is I never look at the Palm, let alone my day planner. There's a good chance that everything in my life is well compartmentalized, but I never look to see that.

I like to keep shit in my head; it's safe there, nestled among forty two thousand random thoughts.