This isn’t your mama’s chocolate pudding pie, but it just might be better. It has more rich creamy chocolate filling topped with a cream cheese whipped cream for the perfect chocolate treat!
This homemade chocolate pie features a flaky pastry pie crust that is filled with rich and creamy homemade chocolate pudding filling. Then it is topped with a cream cheese whipped cream and a handful of chocolate shavings or mini chocolate chips to finish it off.
This pie is rich, creamy and full of chocolate flavor just like you would want it to be. It’s not your mama’s chocolate pie, it’s better.
To tell you the truth, I am not really the pie maker in the family. MiMi plays that role on my side.
My brother-in-law Anthony and my mother-in-law/Nana fill the role on my husband’s side. I just can’t seem to make a pretty crimp on the pie crust.
No matter what I do, it looks like uneven and unpretty. I love all of the beautiful pies I see online, but I just don’t have the patience to make that beauty at home.
Or maybe I just lack the skill. Either way, I make pie crust like a grade school child.
With Pi{e} Day coming up, I had to get over my fear. After all, MiMi has been slacking on making things for the blog.
Besides, sometimes you just have to make a pie even if you don’t think the crust looks perfect. In the end, what really matters is how the food tastes and this pie tastes ah-mazing!
What Does the Pie Taste Like?
It is a nod to the old fashioned chocolate pudding style pies, but so much better. The chocolate filling is made on the stove top and is rich and delicious.
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It is also easy, which is always a bonus! There is just a bit of coffee flavor mixed in to take the chocolate to the next level.
You’d never pick it out as coffee, it just deepens the flavor profile and it doesn’t hurt the color either. It makes it a next level chocolate pudding.
Then there is the topping. Mmmmmm, this topping.
There is no tub of whipped topping here. Oh no!
This is the good stuff. The cream cheese whipped cream combines a bit whipped cream and a bit cream cheese to make a soft, delicious, sumptuous topping that plays off the chocolate layer so nicely.
It would be beautiful decorated with some big chocolate shavings, but I didn’t have a block of chocolate handy. So, I whipped out the mini chocolate chips to give it a little pizzazz with no effort at all.
I have to tell you that we were all sad when this was gone. This jazzed up chocolate pie is definitely on the sort list of must be made again soon dishes.
More Great Creamy Pie Recipes
If you are looking for another variety of chocolate pie, try rich creamy French silk pie. It has a fluffier filling, but is still rich and chocolaty.
Old fashioned sour cream raisin pie is another great creamy option. The sour cream almost gives the pie a lemon flavor and the pie is a classic for good reason.
Apple butter pie is full of fall flavors. It’s easy creamy filling is sumptuous and delicious.
Classic banana cream pie is another winner. The homemade vanilla custard soaks up banana flavor from fresh fruit and tastes amazing.
Not Your Mama’s Chocolate Pie
Ingredients
Pie
- 1 pie crust
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- ¼ cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee
- 1 pinch salt
- 12 oz evaporated milk
- 14 oz sweetened condensed milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Topping
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup heavy cream as cold as possible
Instructions
- Roll out your pie dough and place it in a deep dish pie plate. Crimp edges and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400° F. Remove chilled pie crust from refrigerator and prick the bottom of the crust. Cover with parchment paper and fill with pie weights or dry beans. Bake for about 12 minutes or until golden. Remove from oven and set aside to cool.
- In a large saucepan, whisk together sugar, cocoa, flour, coffee and salt.⅔ cup granulated sugar, ½ cup cocoa powder, ¼ cup all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon instant coffee, 1 pinch salt
- Slowly add the evaporated milk, whisking well as you go to ensure no lumps.12 oz evaporated milk
- Whisk in the condensed milk.14 oz sweetened condensed milk
- Heat over medium heat, stirring frequently. Bring to a low boil and continue to stir frequently for 3 minutes. You should feel the mixture thicken. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract.1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Spread in prepared pie crust and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
- Before serving, whip the cream cheese with your mixer until it is smooth and creamy.8 ounces cream cheese
- Add sugar and vanilla and mix well, being sure the scrape down the sides of the bowl.¼ cup granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Slowly drizzle in super cold cream while beating cream cheese. Turn mixer to high and whip until stiff. Spread or pipe onto chilled pie filling.½ cup heavy cream
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If only we could have a slice of this tonight! I am already craving it!
I wish I could share!
Carlee, looks delish! I always like to give my chocolate a little shot of coffee to make it all that much more chocolatey! Had to laugh about the photography problems – sometimes I just want to dive into something I've made, but no, gotta wait for the photo opp! 😀
Thank you! It's really hard when you have a couple hungry guys patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for you to take pictures too! Oh well, it's fun and enjoy taste testing if nothing else!
Hi Carlee, my pies never look well finished either, I seem to go for the 'homemade' look every time. I did laugh when I read the rigmarole of taking food photos. It has to be my least favourite thing to photo. I even have a table outside that I use as my kitchen does not get much natural light. I see beautiful photographs of food on Instagram and wonder how long it took them to get the photo!
I wouldn't turn my nose up at a slice of this chocolate pie!
xx
I need to work on my pie technique. More chocolate pies for everyone! I often wonder how much time it took them to pick props, set it up and then getting that perfect light is the stuff of nightmares 😉 Luckily I live in a very friendly corner of the internet!
Hi Carlee, looking forward to seeing this over at Food on Friday! Cheers from Carole's chatter
Thank you, Carole!
Hello Carlee, first off I love your new logo, it looks great! 🙂 I love this type of pie! We used to have this great bakery that made it and now they are not in business anymore. 🙁 At least I can make it now with your recipe.
Have a great weekend.
Julie
Thank you , Julie! The best part it how easy these pies are to make.. other than the pretty crust. I really need to figure that out!
Are you kidding me? I love that you didn't use "whipped topping," but I didn't know we could add cream cheese to the whipped cream. This changes everything.
Ha… mind. blown! It's delicious!
This is amazing..I love this flavour and its simple.Thanks a lot for this wonderful recipe.
That's the best way, isn't it? Thank you!
Oh Carlee I love that pie and it's going on my must make list!! I have pie anxiety. I don't make them often enough to be good at it. Then there is the problem with blogging is that the crust always seems to look much better "in person" but the camera picks up every little imperfection and it's so easy to see if something is uneven when you don't even notice that when it's in front of you. I have a really cool pie plate – well my step mom does – and I don't even have to crimp. It has what I'd describe as a little shelf at the top and all the indentations are there. Look at my Two Layer Dulce de Leche pie on my blog. It is a really cool pie tin – of course it's ancient and I don't know where you'd get one these days but maybe they have something like it online. Taste though – that's what really matters!! 🙂 Pinning!!
How is it that the crusts look worse in the picture? It's just not fair! I'll have to look for such a pie plate and Two Layer Dulce de Leche pie sounds amazing. Thanks, Mollie!
Carlee, this looks wonderful and I'm ready to have some now!! Remember it's not the looks that really count it's the beauty in the taste. If it was gone before you could get good pictures is good indication that you created a beauty!! Thanks for the recipe 🙂
The taste is what matters, that is for sure! If only I could pass out little tastes via the internet! Thanks for stopping by, Sam!
First of all, the fact that this has coffee in it makes me want to even more! It looks like the perfect amount of chocolate and the perfect amount of creaminess to make my taste buds happy! Yummy yummy yummy!
It is really so good, Andrea! Thank you!