Chocolate Sin Food

CHOCOLATE SIN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• Stir flour, pecans, and butter together in a bowl; press into the bottom of the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until crust is golden and crisp, about 15 minutes. Cool completely.
• Stir cream cheese, 1 cup whipped topping, and confectioners' sugar together in a bowl until smooth; spread over cooled crust.
• Whisk milk and pudding together in a bowl until slightly thickened, about 2 minutes. Let sit until pudding is set, about 5 minutes. Spread pudding mixture over cream cheese layer. Top cream cheese layer with 12 ounces whipped topping. Refrigerate until flavors blend and pie is set, about 24 hours.

CHOCOLATE SIN

Steps:

• Place oven rack in lower third of oven, heat oven to 375 degrees F (190C).
• Butter and flour bottom and sides of an 8 inch (20cm) springform pan, put aside.
• Melt chocolate with 1/2 cup (125ml) butter.
• Keep chocolate warm over a pan of warm, tap water.
• Beat egg yolks in large mixer bowl at high speed, gradually adding 3/4 cup (180ml) of the sugar.
• Beat until yolk mixture is pale yellow and thick, 4 to 6 minutes.
• Add chocolate mixture to the yolk mixture, beat until completely smooth.
• Add creme de cacao and vanilla, beat until blended.
• Beat egg whites in medium mixer bowl at high speed until soft peaks form.
• Gradually beat remaining 1/4 cup (60ml) sugar into whites, continue beating until stiff but not dry peaks form.
• Fold whites gently but thouroughly into chocolate mixture.
• Pour batter evenly into reserved pan, smooth top.
• Bake 15 minutes.
• Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F (180C),bake another 15 minutes.
• Reduce oven temperature to 250 degrees F (120c), bake 30 minutes longer.
• Total baking time is 1 hour.
• Turn oven off, prop open oven door and allow cake to remain in oven for 30 minutes.
• Remove cake from oven and cover top with damp paper toweling, let stand 5 minutes.
• Remove toweling and cool cake completely.
• Dome of cake will crack and collapse, this is normal - press top of cake down lightly to smooth topRemove springform and transfer cake to serving platter.
• Whip cream in chilled mixer bowl on high speed until soft peaks form.
• Continue beating, gradually adding 1 1/2 tablespoons (22ml) of the powdered sugar until stiff peaks form.
• Dust top of cake with remaining powdered sugar just before serving.
• Serve cake at room temperature with whipped cream.
• "This flourless cake rises light and lovely in the oven, then comes back down to earth as it cools to create a moist unique chocolate cake, moist textured and intensely flavoured."

FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 275 degrees with the rack in the center. Butter the bottom and sides of a 9-inch springform pan. Set aside.
• Place butter and chocolate in a large heatproof bowl and microwave in 30-second increments, stirring each time, until completely melted. Let cool slightly. Whisk in egg yolks.
• In a large bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Gradually add granulated sugar, and continue beating until glossy stiff peaks form. Whisk 1/4 of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture; then gently fold in remaining egg whites.
• Pour batter into the prepared pan, and smooth the top with a rubber spatula. Bake until the cake pulls away from the sides of the pan and is set in the center, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack; remove sides of pan. Serve at room temperature, dusted with confectioners' sugar. Serve with whipped cream, if desired.

CHOCOLATE SIN TRIFLE

Steps:

• Prepare brownie according to package directions (or use homemade), and cool completely.
• In a large bowl, combine pudding mix, water and sweetened condensed milk.
• Mix until smooth, then fold in the 2 containers of 8-ounce whipped topping until no streaks remain.
• In a trifle bowl, place half of the brownies, half of the pudding mixture and half of the 12 ounce container of whipped topping (I have a big trifle bowl- you may need to cut recipe in half!).
• If using any optional ingredients, place on top of brownie layer.
• Repeat layers.
• Shave chocolate onto top layer for garnish.
• Refrigerate 8 hours before serving.
• Note: You can use non-fat ingredients and never know the difference.