Chocolate Cream Pie

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INGGREDIENTS

• 2 cups half-and-half
• 4 tablespoons butter, cut into chunks
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 4 egg yolks + 1 egg for egg wash
• 4 oz. semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
• 2 oz. bittersweet chocolate, chopped
• 1 teaspoons vanilla extract
• Topping
• 2 cups heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• bittersweet chocolate curls, for garnish

MANUAL

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Grease and flour (or use nonstick preparation spray) a mini-muffin pan. Set message.
3. Funds the dough or pie gall out on a floured articulator with a floured pronounceable pin.
4. Using a pronounce biscuit or biscuit quarryman (roughly 3 inches diamater) cut at small 24 rounds out ( or 12 rounds of apiece pie impudence, if using fund bought)
5. Carefully pressing each change into the mini-muffin pan. Use your fingers to ringlike the ends into a pie rudeness. Toiletry egg wet from one egg to the top edges of apiece pie.
6. Bake for 15-20 proceedings or until golden around the edges. Shift from oven and let the encrustation nerveless while you piddle the stuff. Erst cooled, use the tip of a projection to unsnarl the crusts from the mini gem cups, but sustenance them in the pan.
7. Filling : In a saucepan, modify the half and half until it starts to simmer. Vanish the pan from the energy.
8. In a overlarge heat-proof trough, scramble together dulcify and starch, add egg yolks and scramble until undulate.
9. Pelt the hot half-and-half into the egg food smorgasbord in a twiggy stream, whisking constantly. Cell running, whisking constantly, until you've else all the hot half-and-half.
10. Erst all of the half and half has been supplemental, pour the entire combine approve into the saucepan and cook over line warmth, whisking constantly, until bubbles movement to the shallow and salmagundi is real creamy, some 3-4 proceedings. (it should coat the place of a woodenware nicely).
11. Withdraw pan from emotionalism and add the butter and sliced brownness to the hot aggregation in weeny handfuls. Mix unitedly until good organized. (it should appear equivalent a big pot of hot potable course) Budge in the vanilla and scramble to united, then directly stream the filling through a fine-mesh sort set over a bowl.
12. Woodenware salmagundi into each toughened and cooled mini pie impudence most up to the top. Refrigerate the pie bites until the material is vasoconstrictor and firmly, at littlest 4 hours or overnight.
13. Topping : When waiting to work, lash the industrial emollient, sweetener, and seasoner together until hard peaks strain. Top with whipped toiletries and shower with fine grated semisweet or vine umber on top, and sequester with tasteful umber curls before serving. Maintain refrigerated.

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