Chocolate Pudding Pie
This Chocolate Pudding Pie will tantalize your taste buds with rich chocolate pudding in a buttery pastry crust topped with whipped cream!
Chocolate Pie happens to be a favorite family dessert and is often on our menu for holidays and family get-togethers. The crusts and fillings will vary, but there’s always chocolate involved!
Why You Must Make
- My family loves pudding. So it’s not a big jump to assume that they are fans of cream pies, especially chocolate cream pie.
- Cream pies are essentially homemade pudding piled into a pie crust and topped with whipped cream. Perfect for pudding lovers.
- Homemade pudding is a must, but if time is short this can be made using a storebought graham cracker or chocolate cookie crust. Or even fit a refrigerated Pillsbury sheet of pie dough into your own pie plate and fill it once it’s baked and cooled!
When I married Bill, I knew he had certain food standards. For example, no instant pudding, but the box labeled “Cook and Serve” was quite acceptable. Quite the gourmet, wouldn’t you say?
Expert Tips:
- Use a standard-sized pie plate for this recipe. The first time I made this pie, I used a deep dish pan and it needed more filling.
- If you use a pastry crust, blind-bake it first.
- The chocolate pudding filling would be delicious in almost any pie crust. Use a homemade or store-bought pastry crust, graham cracker crust, or chocolate cookie crust depending on your mood.
- Cool your pie crust before filling, but the filling only needs to cool for about 5 minutes, stirring a few times, before scraping it into the pie crust.
- Chill the pie for a couple of hours before adding the whipped cream topping. Small beads of moisture can develop on the surface after this pie sits in the refrigerator. They will not affect the taste of this pie.
- Garnish as desired. I’ve used fresh raspberries and chocolate curls.
How to Make Chocolate Pudding
Puddings made from scratch usually contain eggs as a thickener. The goal is to cook the eggs so they’re incorporated into the pudding and not scrambled. Nobody wants bits of cooked egg in their pie filling.
- First, whisk together the dry ingredients in a heavy-bottom saucepan. A flimsy pan won’t conduct heat properly and the bottom of the mixture could scorch. Note: you can use whatever pan you have, just use extra care if it’s on the lighter side.
- Follow the recipe and whisk in the egg yolks. Reserve the egg whites for meringue cookies, pavlova, macrons, lemon meringue pie, etc.
- Slowly add the liquids, whisking well, then cooking over medium-high heat, while continuing to whisk, until the mixture boils and thickens.
- PRO-Tip: Use a flat whisk (affiliate link) to get into the corners of the pan.
- Remove from the heat and add the chopped chocolate and vanilla. Whisk until the chocolate is melted.
- Pour into the prepared pie shell and chill before topping with whipped cream.
Frequently Asked Questions
The difference between pudding and custard comes down to the thickening agents. Both use eggs, but pudding also uses starch, like cornstarch or flour as well. Custard tends to be thicker and pudding lighter, but both are frequently used as pie fillings.
If you use a pastry crust to make this chocolate pie, you must bake it first. This is because after it’s filled with the pudding, it will not be cooked again. This is called blind baking a pie crust.
1. To blind-bake a pie crust, first fit the rolled-out pie dough into your pie plate.
2. Trim and flute the edges.
3. Preheat your oven and line the pie crust with parchment paper.
4. Place pie weights (which could be ceramic pie weights you purchase or dried beans you reserve for this specific use) over the parchment to weigh down the bottom of the crust. This prevents the pie crust from puffing up off the bottom of the pie plate as it bakes.
5. Alternatively, you can poke the bottom crust with a fork, but I prefer using pie weights. This technique is called docking a pie crust. Docking gives the steam developing under the crust a means to escape.
6. Once the crust is baked, remove it from the oven, carefully remove the parchment (and weights), and let it cool on a wire rack.
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Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe
A buttery pastry crust, creamy chocolate filling and whipped cream topping for a divine dessert!
Ingredients
Filling:
- ⅔ cup sugar
- ¼ cup cornstarch
- 2 tablespoon cocoa powder
- Pinch of salt
- 6 egg yolks
- 2 cups 2% milk
- ½ cup whipping cream
- 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
- 1 tablespoon dark rum
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 9-inch pie crust of your choice
Topping:
- 1 cup whipping cream
- ¼ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon dark rum
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Whisk the sugar, cornstarch, cocoa powder, and salt together in a medium saucepan.
- Whisk in egg yolks till well combined.
- Slowly whisk in milk, then cream, and continue to whisk and cook over medium-high heat.
- Once the mixture comes to a boil, cook and stir for one more minute.
- Remove from heat and stir in chocolate. Whisk till smooth.
- Add rum and vanilla. Let rest for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, then pour into baked pie crust.
- Chill till cold, at least two hours.
- Beat together the topping ingredients till the mixture comes to firm peaks. Pile onto the middle of the pie or use an open star tip and pipe whipped cream over the top of the pie. Garnish as desired with berries or chocolate curls.
Notes
Adapted from Bon Appetit.
Total time does not include chilling time.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 528Total Fat: 33gSaturated Fat: 18gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 13gCholesterol: 194mgSodium: 156mgCarbohydrates: 54gFiber: 2gSugar: 37gProtein: 8g
41 Comments on “Chocolate Pudding Pie”
Simple and delicious, my favorite kind of dessert. For summer (hopefully, we get one) I would use a graham cracker crust to make it totally no-bake.
This is one of my new favorite pies! I loved the buttery crust most of all!
This is the perfect simple chocolate pie! It always hits the spot and we love it!
Such a really amazing pie! The filling is perfect! Thanks for the recipe!
Gotta love these old fashioned desserts, what they lack in fanfare they more than make up in flavour! It’s so pretty too with the whipped cream roses.
I can literally take a slice from your photo! And your chocolate pie is so darn pretty!! Perfect dessert Liz! Thanks so much! 🙂
Looks absolutely amazing Lizzy, love chocolate in desserts!!!
This looks absolutely delicious Lizzy, I love chocolate!!!
Liz, you’re definitely the Queen of tarts and pies. You’ve shared so many delicious ideas – and here we go, another one. This tart looks irresistible, so rich and silky. And, the addition of rum? I am on my way, save me a slice or five, please 🙂
My MiL always makes a chocolate pie for every holiday. I’ll have to share this recipe with her.
Nice recipe you’ve added.
wowwwwww…there’s nothing more to say on this gorgeous chocolate pie, all i got to do now is to watch the picture and drool and later work in this recipe 😀
We love chocolate pie and this one looks delicious!
mmmmmm I loooove chocolate cream pie *sigh of happiness*
So delicious! Thanks for the recipe.
Looks like a pretty darn delicious pie. 🙂 Hope you had a Merry Christmas.
I think we must put them all side by side and do a proper test. However if I had to choose one it would be whatever is in front of me!
Lizzy,
I love that this recipe doesn’t use Cool Whip. Pinned.
Annamaria
Such a cute story! Wouldn’t be surprised to read everyone is still slapping the refrigerator demanding Chocolate Cream Pie!
I can see why this was a Thanksgiving favourite. Love how you clarified that Bill’s firstborn is also your firstborn! xx
Another fantasticly decadent pie from Lizzy! This chocolate filling has me smiling and I’d love a slice now!:)
This chocolate cream pie looks divine and sounds so delicious! It would be hard for me to choose a favorite between all those chocolate pies too 🙂 Hope everyone loved whichever one you made on Christmas 🙂
Wonderfully sinfully rich and delicious!
Dear Lizzy! Just delicious! Hope you had a lovely and nice Christmas!!
Such a tempting pie, the chocolate looks smooth as silk 😀
Cheers
CCU
Such a pretty pie! I’m tempted to make all three for a taste test ;).
I would love a piece of this chocolate cream pie! Also one of my favorite desserts 😀
Chocolate cream pie was a favorite with my little one too. I thought it would be cute to let him feed himself and afterward thought it would have been easier to have a new child than to clean that one up.
Your pie looks wonderful and I’d go at it with gusto.
So funny, Maureen. I think I was hand feeding pudding to my kids when they started school.(maybe not!)
A chocolate cream pie that is good for any time of the year. This recipe hits the spot for my sweet tooth.
That is so cute! Gotta have some puddy with uncle.
My other half is a full-on chocolate addict. If he sees this, he will be in the kitchen making it right away. (If he does I will send you a pic!)
Ha! My mother used to serve us instant pudding. LOL. Yours looks so much more appetizing.
Liz, I’d have to do a side-by-side tasting to be sure, but I think I’d call it a tie between these three pies!
Lovely cream pie, Liz. The chocolate/raspberry combo is a winner. I think the uncle had a good babysitting strategy. I’m not above making one of these and using it to bribe my sister’s monsters – though I shall be sure to wipe away the telltale moustaches. 🙂
Hope you are having a lovely festive season and wishing you a Happy New Year.
Just delicious, Liz! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!
If the B-i-L is in town, we have to have some sort of a chocolate pudding pie (which is sometimes, in a pinch, the boxed stuff thrown in a pie shell with a bit of cool whip!) :)Hope you had a wonderful holiday!
wow! i need to try it .
Looks delicious, and beautifully presented as well. Hope you had an amazing Christmas Liz x
I hope you had a great Christmas Liz and that Santa left you lots of yummy chocolate to bake with:@)
You have so many wonderful chocolate pies in your collection Liz. This one looks like another winner. You’re making it impossible to narrow a favorite down 🙂
This looks delish – I would welcome its appearance on my yable. Hope you had a great Xmas Liz.