This pie has a crunchy chocolate base, creamy center and awesome topping. You can make it days in advance, keep refrigerated, and serve when ready.
Chocolate, Berry and Cream Cheese Pie
Servings 10
Ingredients
- Pie crust premade or your own recipe
- 1/2 bar unsweetened baking chocolate
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream divided
- 1 Tbsp butter softened
- Splash of spiced rum optional
- Pinch sugar
- 8 oz cream cheese softened
- Vanilla extract splash
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar
- Strawberries cut in half
- Blueberries
- 1 ounce chocolate milk, dark, or white
Instructions
- Place pie crust in a pretty pie pan and make according to directions. Cool.
Ganache:
- Chop chocolate into small pieces and place in a medium bowl.
- In a small saucepan, bring 1/4 cup heavy cream to a boil and immediately pour over the chocolate.
- Add butter and optional rum to mixture and whisk until combined. Add a pinch or two of sugar (it should be very bitter).
- Pour ganache onto pie crust and let set (you can put in the freezer while prepping the filling).
Cream Cheese Filling:
- Cut softened cream cheese into small pieces and put in a large bowl with a splash of vanilla extract.
- Sift 1/4 powdered sugar on top of cream cheese and beat until smooth. Add more sifted powdered sugar until desired sweetness is reached.
- Spoon filling into pie and level with spatula.
Topping:
- Starting from the outside of the pie, place strawberries in concentric circles until you reach the middle. Fill in empty spaces with blueberries.
- Cut chocolate into small pieces. Heat 1/4 cup heavy cream to a boil.
- Pour a tablespoon at a time of the hot cream over the chocolate and mix together until it forms a paste.
- Fill a Ziplock bag with chocolate mixture, cut off a bottom corner, drizzle filling over pie. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
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