Chocolate Pie with Sea Salt

⏳ Time

2 hours 10 minutes

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

This recipe is taken from a book titled 'French Home Cooking: Stories and Recipes from the Vineyard Region' by Jane Smith. I make this dessert when I can't think of any other ideas. It may not sound very flattering, but actually, this pie is loved by all my family members and never gets boring. The sea salt butter adds a special twist to the pie, but you need to be careful to ensure it doesn't overpower the chocolate flavor. However, that's not easy to do since this pie is incredibly chocolatey. I prefer to bake it until it's perfectly done, so it's moist but fully cooked, while the kids often ask me to take it out of the oven a couple of minutes early. The choice is yours!

Ingredients

Salted Butter - 3.5 oz
Liquid dark chocolate - 8.1 oz
Chicken Egg - 6 pieces
Sugar - 10.6 oz
Wheat Flour - 7.1 oz
Salt - 1 tablespoon
Vanilla extract - 1 tablespoon
Cherry - to taste
Powdered Sugar - to taste

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 320°F. Grease a 23 cm round baking pan with butter and line the bottom with parchment paper.

Step 2

Pour 5–10 cm of water into a small saucepan and bring it to a gentle simmer. Place the butter and chocolate in a heatproof bowl and set it over the saucepan with the simmering water. Stir until the butter and chocolate melt, then remove from heat and let it cool for 10 minutes.

Step 3

In a small bowl, whisk the eggs with the sugar. In a second bowl, sift the flour and add the salt.

Step 4

Pour the melted chocolate into the whipped eggs. Add the vanilla. Gradually fold in the flour. Pour the resulting batter into a greased baking pan and bake for about 30 minutes.

Step 5

Allow the finished pie to cool in the pan for at least 1 hour. Then, turn the pie out onto a serving plate, and decorate it with berries or raisins and powdered sugar.