National Pi Day

I really haven't changed to a cooking blog (believe me I am not that good), but since I am loving cooking right now, I thought I'd share what I made. It isn't very pretty...but I was just happy it worked! Yesterday was "National Pi Day." March 14-3.14. So in honor of the unknown holiday, I made French Silk Pie. I got the recipe from Kraftfoods.com. It is the same one as the Betty Crocker Cookbook. It was really good!

* 1 cup heavy whipping cream
* 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate pieces
* 1/3 cup pure butter
* 1/3 cup sugar
* 2 egg yolks, beaten
* 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
* 1 baked (9 inch) pie shell
* Chocolate curls (for garnish)
* 1 can heavy whipping cream (for serving)

Preparation
1. In a heavy 2-quart saucepan, combine the 1 cup heavy whipping cream, chocolate pieces, butter and sugar. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, till chocolate is melted, about 10 minutes. Remove pan from heat.

2. Gradually stir about half of the hot mixture into the beaten egg yolks. Return egg mixture to saucepan. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, till mixture is slightly thickened and almost bubbly – 3 to 5 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat. Stir in 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream. Place saucepan in a bowl of ice water, stir constantly till mixture stiffens and becomes hard to stir (20 minutes).

3. Transfer chocolate mixture to a medium mixing bowl. Beat the cooled chocolate mixture with an electric mixer on medium to high speed until light fluffy (2 to 3 minutes). Spread filling in a baked pastry shell.

4. Cover and chill pie 4 to 5 hours or until set best served within 24 hours, but will last 3 to 4 days if stored properly. Serve with whipped cream and a garnish with chocolate curls.
Notes
Be sure to use pure butter or pure margarine in this recipe. If not, water and oil will form in the chocolate and will ruin the chocolate silk. (No spreads!)