Chocolate Piñon Pie Recipes

CHOCOLATE PINON COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• With an electric mixer, in a medium size bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Stir in the vanilla, grated chocolate, and pine nuts. Mix in the flour and salt. Chill the dough.
• When ready to bake, roll out the dough, on a floured surface, to a 1/4 inch thickness. Cut out the cookies with a 2inch round cookie cutter. Gather the scraps together and reroll the dough to cut out more cookies. Place slightly apart on a nonstick baking sheet.
• Bake for 10 minutes, or until the cookies are dry and firm. When cool, dust the cookies with the powdered sugar.

SPICED PUMPKIN PIE WITH CHOCOLATE PINON NUT STREUSEL

Steps:

• For the cake: In the mixer with the paddle attachment, cream the almond paste, egg, powdered sugar and vanilla paste and mix until creamy with no lumps. Then add the egg yolks one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
• Change the paddle to the whisk, and whisk for another 6-8 minutes. Fold in the flour, then the melted butter.
• Whisk the egg whites and sugar together to a soft peak making a meringue. Lastly fold in the meringue.
• Spread on a cookie sheet in a very thin layer and bake at 375 degrees F for about ten minutes.
• For the mousse: Cook the sugar and water to a glucose/syrup consistency. Place the egg yolks in the mixer and whisk until the color is pale and the consistency is thick. Then add the sugar/water syrup slowly and whisk until room temperature.
• Warm the pumpkin puree with the vanilla paste and pumpkin spice. Whisk in the gelatin and mix well.
• Bring the heavy cream to a soft peak by whisking it in a mixer. Fold the puree mixture into the egg yolk mixture and then fold in the whisked heavy cream. Pour the batter onto the biscuit cake.
• For the streusel: In the food processor combine all of the ingredients together and mix until it becomes a corn meal consistency.
• Spread the mixture over a silpat and bake at 300 degrees F until crispy and dry, about fifteen minutes. Chill and break into pieces.
• For Serving: Divide the mousse pie into eight squares and top with the streusel. This dessert can be served with an optional scoop of vanilla ice cream.

MARGARET'S SOUTHERN CHOCOLATE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Sift together the cocoa powder and the flour and pour them into a saucepan. Whisk the egg yolks and 1 1/3 cups sugar. Gradually add the evaporated milk, whisking constantly; slowly pour the milk mixture into the saucepan, whisking until combined.
• Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with a flat-bottomed wooden spoon or spatula, until the mixture begins to thicken and coats the back of the spoon, about 15 minutes. Remove the custard from the heat and stir in the butter until melted. Pour the filling into the baked pie crust.
• To make the meringue topping: Combine the egg whites and cream of tartar in a clean glass or metal bowl; beat with an electric mixer until foamy. Gradually add sugar, a tablespoon at a time, continuing to beat until stiff peaks form. Lift your beater or whisk straight up: the egg whites will form sharp peaks. Spread the meringue over the chocolate filling.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes, or until the tips of the meringue peaks are golden brown.

CHOCOLATE-PIñON PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°. Process piñons and chocolate in a food processor until ground. Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamed; add sugar, and beat until sugar dissolves. Add egg yolks to butter mixture; add zest and piñon mixture, and beat until blended. Beat egg whites at high speed until stiff peaks form. Fold egg whites, one-third at a time, into butter mixture. Pour batter into a buttered, floured 8-inch round cake pan lined with parchment paper. Bake for 45 minutes or until pie shrinks away from edges of pan. Cool and slice with a wet knife.

CHOCOLATE BUTTERMILK PIE

Steps:

• 1. Combine sugar and butter and mix until well blended.
• 2. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and mix well.
• 3. Combine and whisk the flour, cocoa, and salt until mixed. Then add to the butter mixture.
• 4. Add buttermilk and vanilla to the mixture. Stir until well mixed.
• 5. Pour into pie shells and bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Or, as oven temperatures vary, bake as long as it takes for the pie to be firm and not jiggle in the middle.
• 6. Cool completely before cutting. Store leftover pie in the refrigerator.
• 7. Note: I used an electric mixer though this recipe can easily be mixed by hand. Adapted from Karen's Buttermilk Pie My older sister Karen always made the Buttermilk Pie for our Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner, and though I'm not sure where she got her recipe, I am sure that it was the best Buttermilk Pie that anyone in our family ever made. Yes, even better than mine. My beloved sister passed away in 1999 a few days after Christmas. The following year I decided to make her Buttermilk Pie in honor of her. I contacted family members and began a search for her recipe. To my dismay no one had it. My mother said my sister had written down the recipe for her, however, after searching she could not find it either. Each year I make a buttermilk pie from recipes I have found in books and online and none of them tasted the same. I am happy to say that while looking through old recipes of my mother's, after 13 years, I found my sister's handwritten recipe in time to bake it for Thanksgiving and my family got to enjoy a piece of Karen's Buttermilk Pie as we reminisced about her and holidays past.