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This Simple Retro Dessert Contains a Jaw-Dropping Quantity of Chocolate

Why It Works

  • Pulsing chocolate sandwich cookies (similar to Oreos) with butter and salt creates a straightforward three-ingredient crust that is sturdy sufficient to help the pie’s fillings.
  • Whipping the eggs earlier than folding them into the brownie batter creates a softer brownie layer within the pie.
  • Including ample chocolate to the pudding layer and getting ready it within the meals processor creates a easy, dense, sliceable texture for the pie.

In case you’ve ever checked out a chocolate pie and thought to your self, “I want this had extra chocolate,” then Mississippi mud pie is for you. Every of its three mouthwatering layers—crunchy chocolate cookie crust, fudgy brownie heart, and creamy pudding prime—options an eye-bulging quantity of chocolate. And whereas the completely different layers of this intense chocolate pie are stated to be named for the Mississippi River’s silty backside, there’s nothing muddy about its taste or texture. 

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To create this mighty chocolate expertise, our Birmingham, Alabama-based check kitchen colleague Elizabeth Mervosh baked pie after pie earlier than touchdown on this chocolate-laden recipe beneath. Right here’s easy methods to excellent every layer on this delightfully indulgent chocolate dessert.

The Excellent Crispy Chocolate Crust Requires Simply Three Substances

This easy chocolate cookie crust depends on simply three components—cookie crumbs produced from chocolate sandwich cookies (similar to Oreos), melted butter, and salt—to ship a crust that is pleasantly candy and wealthy in taste. Merely pulse chocolate cookies in a meals processor, then mix the crumbs, butter, and a little bit of salt in a bowl, and eventually press the combination evenly right into a pie plate.

We like utilizing store-bought or homemade Oreo cookies. In our assessments, we  discovered it greatest (and best) to maintain the filling with the cookies—the filling enhances the crust’s creamy texture, making it simpler to press and mildew into the pie plate. Or if you happen to desire, you need to use the identical weight of unfilled chocolate wafers, similar to Nabisco model, although the crust might be barely much less wealthy and candy.

A Brownie Layer With a Wealthy Taste however Gentle Texture

We wished a brownie layer that was wealthy and fudgy, however that was additionally mild sufficient in texture that it was straightforward to interrupt off bite-size items with a fork as soon as baked—in any case, you do not need to should slice every particular person chunk of pie with a knife. The trick to getting this lighter texture with our brownies is whipping the eggs till they’ve tripled in quantity and have the feel of runny marshmallows earlier than folding them into the batter. This whipped egg combination leavens the brownie layer and offers it an ethereal texture that pairs nicely with the opposite layers within the pie.

Whereas we wished our brownie batter to bake up mild and fluffy, we nonetheless wished it to have that signature brownie chew. Our assessments revealed that the key to the proper chewy texture boils down to at least one factor: fats—particularly the ratio of saturated to unsaturated fats. By utilizing each butter (a predominantly saturated fats) and vegetable oil (an unsaturated fats) in an roughly one–to-one ratio, we’re in a position to produce a brownie layer with a satisfying chew that’s nonetheless mushy sufficient to run a fork by means of.

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To accentuate the brownie’s chocolaty punch, along with utilizing melted bittersweet chocolate within the brownie layer, we added cocoa powder to the combo: Ounce for ounce, cocoa powder has extra cocoa solids—and thus extra chocolate taste—than some other sort of chocolate, so a mere three tablespoons drastically enhances the brownie layer’s taste with out creating the denser texture that utilizing extra melted chocolate would end in.

The Creamiest Chocolate Pudding

On prime of the fudgy brownie is a lightweight, creamy chocolate pudding. As a substitute of whisking the pudding combination collectively on the stovetop, as most conventional pudding recipes do, right here the pudding is pulsed and mixed till easy in a meals processor. As the recent cream combination is slowly poured into the chopped chocolate combination in processor, the sharp blade ensures each little bit of chocolate blends into the combination for the smoothest pudding potential. 

The pie filling will get its wealthy taste from—you guessed it—much more chocolate, within the type of bittersweet chocolate. We advocate skipping the chips and as a substitute use a top quality bar chocolate with about 64 to 70% cacao. Chocolate chips usually comprise stabilizers like soy lecithin  that stop them from melting totally—that is nice in chocolate chip cookies, however not a lot in a pudding. So for a creamy, easy chocolate pudding, you’re higher off beginning with a bar and chopping it your self. And at last, to safeguard your pudding’s creamy texture and to be sure to do not find yourself with scrambled eggs, bear in mind to mood the egg yolks so that they don’t curdle by slowly pouring the recent cream combination into the meals processor whereas operating.

Whipped Cream Makes Virtually The whole lot Higher

We love the juxtaposition of the dense chocolate pie with fluffy whipped cream topping. And for an ornamental and appropriately Southern end, we advocate sprinkling the pie with crunchy pecans. In case you’re not a fan of nuts, prime the pie with easy chocolate shavings, crushed chocolate cookies, or completely nothing in any respect.

This recipe was developed by Elizabeth Mervosh; the headnote was written by Leah Colins.

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