Chocolate Coconut Cream Pie


 Ingredients:

  • 400 g graham cracker crumbs
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/4 cup cornstarch
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 cup half-and-half
  • 2 cups milk
  • 6 oz/170 g dark chocolate (I used chocolate chips)
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 whipping cream
  • 1 cup shredded coconut, plus extra for garnish
Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F
  2. Melt 1/4 cup butter
  3. Separate 2 egg yolks
  4. In pot, combine 400 g graham cracker crumbs, 1/4 cup butter, 1/2 cup sugar
  5. Press graham cracker mix to the bottom and a third of the way up a 9" pan
  6. Bake 20 min
  7. While crust is baking, in a large saucepan, mix 1/4 cup cocoa powder, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup cornstarch, 1 cup shredded coconut, and 1/4 tsp salt
  8. Melt 1/4 cup butter
  9. Whisk in egg yolks, 1 cup half-and-half, 2 cups milk
  10. Add 6 oz/170 g dark chocolate and cook mixture over medium heat
  11. Whisk constantly until large bubbles form, about 8 min
  12. Add 1/4 melted butter and 1 tsp vanilla extract
  13. Pour chocolate-coconut mix over crust, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 3 hours
  14. With a hand mixer, whip 1 1/2 cups heavy cream, 3 tbsp sugar, and 1 tsp vanilla on medium-high until stiff peaks form
  15. Spread over chocolate-coconut mix
  16. Toast shredded coconut in an ungreased pan until it becomes fragrant and starts to brown, and garnish over whipped topping
Yield: One 9" pan worth of pie


Description:

This was the second part of Lee-Anne's 30th birthday meal. In my last update, I mentioned that if she's at a diner, she orders eggs Benedict. At her favourite breakfast place, they make a chocolate coconut cream pie that she really likes, so I decided to figure out how to make that.

I decided not to do the crust from the linked recipe, as it called for graham cracker crumbs, and I learned how to make a graham cracker crust from my cheesecake recipe. It was however, the only place that the recipe planned to incorporate coconut, so I added a cup of shredded coconut to the chocolate mix.

It called for finely chopped chocolate, but I just used dark chocolate chips. I really wanted the whipped topping to use some coconut milk, and if I try this again I might try to incorporate it.

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