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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.