Chocolate Rum Striped Pie Food

CHOCOLATE RUM PIE

Steps:

• Beat egg and sugar in small bowl until thick and creamy, stir in blended cornflour and milk.
• Pour mixture into pan, stir over heat until mixture boils and thickens.
• Remove from heat, add chocolate, stir until chocolate is melted.
• Sprinkle gelatine over water in cup, stand in small pan of simmering water, stir until dissolved.
• Add to chocolate mixture, mix well, cool to room temperature, stir in rum.
• Beat cream until soft peaks form, fold into chocolate mixture.
• Pour into pastry shell, refrigerate several hours until firm.

CHOCOLATE-PECAN-RUM PIE

Steps:

• Grease a nine-inch pie pan.
• In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, two teaspoons sugar, the cinnamon and allspice. Cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Gradually sprinkle in the ice water while lightly kneading the dough by hand until it holds together. Gather into a ball, wrap in waxed paper and refrigerate for one hour.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Roll out the dough to one-eighth-inch thickness. Line the prepared pan, trimming the extra dough at the top. Spread the pecans and chocolate chips on the bottom.
• In a mixing bowl, combine the melted butter, remaining sugar, eggs, corn syrup, vanilla extract, lemon zest and nutmeg. Pour into the pan.
• Bake for 15 minutes, lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees and bake for 30 minutes, or until the top begins to brown and the center is almost set. Remove, sprinkle with rum and cool. Serve at room temperature with some whipped cream, if desired.

FROZEN CHOCOLATE - RUM PIE

Steps:

• Make crust: Combine well the pecans, butter, rum and brown sugar and press into bottom and up sides of 10 inch glass pie plate.
• Freeze, covered.
• Make filling: In top of double-boiler set over barely simmering water, melt chocolate.
• Let cool for 30 minutes, or until completely cool and stir in coffee powder.
• Beat together vanilla, eggs and rum; beat in chocolate mixture.
• In another bowl, beat cream until it holds soft peaks.
• Fold into chocolate mixture and pour into shell.
• Freeze, covered, overnight.
• Whip cream and icing sugar and mound on pie.
• Let pie stand 15-20 minutes and slice.
• Let slices stand 5-10 minutes more before serving.

BLACK BOTTOM PECAN PIE WITH CHOCLATE RUM MOUSSE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Lightly beat together eggs, corn syrup, sugar, butter, 3 Tbs. rum, vanilla and salt. Do not over beat. Stir in pecan halves and half of the chocolate morsels (1/2 cup).
• Pour into unbaked pie shell. Cover edges w/foil. Bake 25min. Remove foil.
• Bake 20-25 minutes more (till knife comes out clean). Cool, then chill.
• For chocolate rum mousse melt remaining 1/2 cup chocolate morsels over hot (not boiling) water stir until smooth.
• Whip 1 cup heavy cream and 1 Tbs. rum until soft peaks form.
• Gently fold in melted morsels. I add a spoonful at a time of the whipped cream into the chocolate (since the chocolate is never the right consistency for me) then fold it all together.