Diner Desserts Chocolate Cream Pie

If my house was on fire, this is one of the cookbooks I would grab. My top five cookbooks:

• Diner Desserts
• Tupelo Honey Cafe
• King Arthur's Flour Bakers Companion
• All Recipe's.Com Cookbook
• The Lion House Cookbook

Actually, now that I think about it...I wouldn't grab my cookbooks because I have posted all my favorite recipes!!

My favorite dessert pie is chocolate cream pie from the diner dessert book. I LOVE it.

Chocolate Cream Pie

Ingredients:

• 1 3/4 chocolate wafer crumbs
• 1 Tb granulated sugar
• 7 Tb melted butter

Oven 350 degrees. Mix and press into a pie pan. Bake 8 minutes until set. Cool on rack.

Filling Ingredients:

• 3 Tb cornstarch
• 1 Tb cocoa powder
• 1/4 tea salt
• 1 cup half and half

Mix in a pyrex cup and make a smooth paste.

• 1 1/4 cup milk
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 3 oz unsweetened chocolate, chopped
• 1 oz semi-sweet chocolate, chopped

Heat in saucepan. Whisk the hot milk (1 cup) into the pyrex cup with half and half. Then return all to pan and heat till thick about 1 minute after it bubbles. Whisk constantly until consistency of pudding. Remove from heat.

• 2 Tb butter
• 1 tea vanilla

Add to pan and mix well. Put into cooled pan. Cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate at least 4 hours or over night.

Topping Ingredients:

• 2 cups heavy cream
• 2 Tb sugar
• 1 tea vanilla

Beat until soft peaks. Put on top of pie and serve!