I love my pies, especially sugar free chocolate pies. Some of us are not so lucky. Many of us are either on a diet, or have health conditions the do not allow us to have regular products, so we substitute with sugar free products. Anyhow, I LOVE MY pies, especially chocolate pies. As we know there have been many variations of pies over the years.

A pie as we know is a baked food, with a baked shell usually made of pastry that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savory ingredients. Pies can be either one-crust or two crust. In a one crust pie the filling is placed in a dish and covered with a pastry/potato mash top before baking whereas in a two-crust pie the filling is completely enclosed in the pastry shell. Generally sweet pies have only a bottom crust as they do not require cooking. These bottom-crust-only pies may be known as tarts or tartlets. Sometime cakes are also called pies.
Below is a recipe for (sugar free or regular) chocolate pies.
Ingredients:
· 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
· 1/3 cup flour
· 1 cup sugar
· 3 egg yolks
· 1 cup water, divided
· 2/3 cup milk
· 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
· 1 teaspoon vanilla
· baked pie crust or purchased crumb crust, 9-inch
Directions:
Mix cocoa and flour in top of a double boiler over hot water and whisk in about half of the 1 cup of water, just enough to make a smooth paste. Blend in the sugar and the beaten egg yolks and add remaining water and milk. Cook over low until the mixture is thick; add butter and vanilla. Pour into baked pie crust. Top with whipped cream or whipped topping, or use the egg whites to make a meringue thoroughly.

You can also make other variations such as a (sugar free or regular) chocolate fudge pie or a (sugar free or regular) chocolate cream pie or a (sugar free or regular) chocolate pecan pie etc.


tags: chocolate, chocolate pie, cocoa, chocolate cream pie, chocolate fudge pie, chocolate pecan pie, sugar free chocolate

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Chocolate pudding is a pudding with chocolate flavor. Sometimes, chocolate and vanilla pudding. Pudding like that is called ChocoNilla, or Chocolate and Vanilla pudding. The term ChocoNilla is made popular by Kellog’s Rice Krispies cereal.

Course if you like as much I do, you’d make it at home. I usually buy chocolate pudding mix at a grocery store.

There are basically three types of chocolate pudding: a boiled then chilled pudding, texturally similar to custard set with starch, and a steamed/baked pudding, texturally similar to cake.

The first version is one of the most common variety of dessert pudding eaten in United States and Canada. It is usually eaten as a snack or dessert. It is also used as a filling for chocolate pie. It is a variation of the chocolate custard with starch used to thicken the pudding rather than eggs. In the early 19th and 20the century it was thought that chocolate pudding was an appropriate food for children and invalids. The modern version of the pudding is usually made with milk and sugar and flavored with vanilla and chocolate and is thickened using cornstarch or flour. Some people use eggs or others might use gelatin to thicken it further. It is steamed, baked or cooked on stove pot. It might also be frozen. Nowadays it can be purchased readymade from the stores. The popular brands are Jell-O pudding by Kraft and Snack pudding by Hunt’s.

The second version of the pudding is more commonly found in Britain and Australia. All the ingredients like milk, sugar, flour, chocolate powder, vanilla essence, baking powder and eggs are mixed together and then steamed or baked. The texture is similar to a cake but it is denser. This version also can be found readymade in the stores nowadays. White chocolate pudding can also be made in this way. The popular brands are Sara Lee and Aunt Betty’s.


tags: Aunt Betty’s Pudding, Sara Lee Pudding, Snack Pudding by Hunt’s, Jello Pudding by Kraft, chocolate pudding, chocoNilla

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