One of my favorite things to make is a classic southern chocolate pie, meringue and all! I always hear from people chocolate pie is so hard and I can’t make good chocolate pie. Well follows these steps and hopefully your pie will turn it just the way you want!

The Recipe

The Pie

• 1 9″ pie crust (baked)

Use your favorite recipe, or buy a frozen crust. The reality is it’s the filling that matters!

Dry Ingredients

5 Tablespoons of baking cocoa

4 Tablespoons of Flour

1 1/2 Cups of sugar

Wet Ingredients

4 egg yolks (save the whites for your meringue)

2 Teaspoons of vanilla flavoring

1 can of evaporated milk (12 oz.)

4 Tablespoons of unsalted butter

Let’s get cookin’ y’all!

In a large mixing bowl combine all of your ingredients, except the butter! Mix with a hand mixer or a whisk until its smooth and lumps are gone (for the most part).

Let’s head to the stove and get to cookin’. With your heat on medium high pour contents of mixing bowl into a medium to large sauce pan. With your whisk DO NOT stop stirring, this mixture burns quickly and cooks just as quick! Cut your 4 Tablespoons of unsalted butter and add to the pie filling, as you stir in the butter your mixture will thicken and start to boil. Turn off your heat and pour the mixture into your chilled pie crust. Throw that pie in the refrigerator for 15 minutes to chill!

The Meringue

A lot of people don’t really like meringue, that’s fine just leave it off. But if your like us the “Calf Slobber” as we like to call it makes the pie just perfect! A lot of the time people make their meringue too sweet, so here’s a recipe for the perfect meringue!

The Ingredients

4 egg whites (see I told you to save em’)

1 1/4 cup of sugar

Before we start prepping let’s preheat that oven to 350° F, I like my meringue to cook slow it warms back up that pie filling!

Preparation

In a mixing bowl, using a hand mixer in medium speed beat your egg whites until peaks form, this takes about 2-4 minutes. As soon as your peaks form slowly add the sugar a little at a time, continually beating the egg whites and sugar mixture for about 1 more minute. As soon as your sugar is added spoon the meringue mixture onto the cooked pie.

Stick that pie in the oven for about 11 minutes, or until the meringue browns.

Cut and serve this pie warm to your guests or run to the bedroom and eat it all yourself ( we won’t judge )