Classic Chocolate Cream Pie

Name: Classic Chocolate Cream Pie
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 5 sections (1/2 oz each) Hershey's unsweetened chocolate baking bar, broken into pieces; 3 cup milk, divided; 1 1/3 cup sugar; 3 tbsp all-purpose flour; 3 tbsp cornstarch; 1/2 tsp salt; 3 egg yolks; 2 tbsp butter or margarine; 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract; 1 baked pie crust, cooled, or 1 crumb crust (9inch); 1 sweetened whipping cream (optional)

MamaCanCook @cook_2894710

Classic Chocolate Cream Pie

MamaCanCook @cook_2894710

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Ingredients

5sections (1/2 oz each) Hershey's unsweetened chocolate baking bar, broken into pieces
3 cupmilk, divided
1 1/3 cupsugar
3 tbspall-purpose flour
3 tbspcornstarch
1/2 tspsalt
3egg yolks
2 tbspbutter or margarine
1 1/2 tspvanilla extract
1baked pie crust, cooled, or 1 crumb crust (9inch)
1sweetened whipping cream (optional)

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Steps

1

combine chocolate and 2 cups of milk in medium saucepan; cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, just until mixture boils. remove from heat and set aside.
2

stir together flour, sugar, cornstarch and salt in medium bowl. whisk remaining 1 cup milk into egg yolks in seperate bowl; stir into sugar mixture. gradually add to chocolate mixture. cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, until mixture boils; boil and stir 1 minute. remove from heat, stir in butter and vanilla
3

pour I to prepared pie crust, press plastic wrap directly into surface. cool; refrigerate until well chilled. top with whipped cream, if desired.