I was digging through the archives for a good pie and I came across this chocolate frosted wonder. Since I’m making it again, I thought you guys may want the recipe as well.
This is Chocolate Topping Pie!
AuthorRetroRuth
From Baker's Chocolate Advertisement, 1952
Tested Recipe!
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Mix gelatin and cold water.
Combine egg yolks and milk, and cook and stir over low heat until mixture coats a metal spoon. Pour over gelatin, add candy; stir until dissolved. Chill. (or add crushed candy when still over the heat if using round mints. Stir until candy is dissolved, then mix into gelatin and chill.)
When gelatin mixture is slightly thickened, fold in whipped cream and food coloring.
Beat egg whites with salt until foamy, then add sugar gradually, beating until peaks hold. Fold into gelatin mixture. Spoon into pie shell and chill until firm.
For the topping, cream butter and add confectioners sugar gradually. Add melted chocolate and egg yolk and mix well.
Spread topping over chilled peppermint filling and chill again.
Ingredients
Directions
Mix gelatin and cold water.
Combine egg yolks and milk, and cook and stir over low heat until mixture coats a metal spoon. Pour over gelatin, add candy; stir until dissolved. Chill. (or add crushed candy when still over the heat if using round mints. Stir until candy is dissolved, then mix into gelatin and chill.)
When gelatin mixture is slightly thickened, fold in whipped cream and food coloring.
Beat egg whites with salt until foamy, then add sugar gradually, beating until peaks hold. Fold into gelatin mixture. Spoon into pie shell and chill until firm.
For the topping, cream butter and add confectioners sugar gradually. Add melted chocolate and egg yolk and mix well.
Spread topping over chilled peppermint filling and chill again.
Notes
So, this pie has a chocolate top with a peppermint chiffon filling. I was pretty excited about this one, mostly because the “chocolate top” was basically frosting. Pie frosting. Pie frosting!!!
Okay, calm down. We have to make a pie.
The recipe calls for peppermint sticks, but I couldn’t find any in the store so I just subbed in Starlight Mints (round, red and white striped, wrapped in cellophane) and it seemed to work just fine. The only change I had to make with the recipe was to add the crushed mints while it was still over the heat, because I wanted to make sure they all melted and incorporated.
Oh! And I also bought pasteurized in the shell eggs. Which seem to be almost a necessity for making vintage pie recipes (if you are as big of a freak about not eating raw eggs as Tom is), but if you can’t find them around you, you can omit the egg yolk in the topping and use whites from the carton.
Also – props to Tom’s mom who helped me out when I was trying to beat a pasteurized egg white and nothing was happening. Turns out it takes about twice as long and some cream of tartar to get pasteurized egg whites to whip, but hang in there because it WILL happen. Eventually.
Frosting! Frosting. Frosting. Frosting.
I frosted my pie with chocolate frosting.
Oh, one more small change. I didn’t have the stuff to make a regular pie crust, so I made a graham cracker one and baked it at 350 degrees for 8 minutes and used that.
All it said was a BAKED pie crust. It didn’t say it couldn’t be graham cracker.
“Did my dad just steal a bite of pie?”
“Yes.”
“Apparently this pie is so good, you’ll steal it from your own son.”
The Verdict: Very Good!
From The Tasting Notes –
Good! The peppermint chiffon filling was very light and airy, almost like a peppermint marshmallow. The chocolate frosting topping was great. There were a lot of suggestions about what this pie most tasted like, a few were “a sundae with mint ice cream”, “a chocolate easter egg” and even that the topping (when chilled solid) tasted like those little foil-wrapped chocolate Ice Cubes, the ones with the polar bear on them. The graham cracker crust was really good with the pie, and if you make this I highly suggest putting it in a graham cracker crust. Another suggestion would be to use a dark chocolate or omit some of the sugar from the topping to make it less sweet (the finished topping was like a milk chocolate), but that is just a personal preference. Overall, a great pie, and it was gone in two days!
I’m surprised it lasted two days.
This and the past few recipes have been wonderful, but how about more of the weird and wacko ones? They’re truly some of the best entertainment on this planet!