Chocolate Ganache Smores Pie Recipe 475

CHOCOLATE GANACHE S'MORES

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• Combine the graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, sugar, and cinnamon in a mixing bowl. Mix until evenly moistened, then press into the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Bake in the preheated oven until the crust is lightly browned and smells toasted, about 5 minutes.
• Place the chocolate into a medium bowl. Heat the cream in a small sauce pan over medium heat. Bring just to a boil. When the cream has come to a boil, remove from the heat immediately and pour over the chocolate chips; whisk until smooth. Stir in the optional rum. Pour evenly over the graham cracker layer.
• Preheat the oven's broiler and set the oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source.
• Place an even layer of marshmallows on top of the chocolate. Broil until the marshmallows are lightly toasted, about 1 minute. Refrigerate until chocolate has hardened, about 45 minutes. Cut into bars using a pizza cutter sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.

S'MORE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Mix together graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, sugar, and salt for the crust, and press into the bottom of a springform pan.
• Mix graham cracker crumbs, condensed milk, chocolate chips, baking powder, and salt for the graham brownie in a large bowl until well combined. Gently spread on top of graham cracker crust.
• Bake in the preheated oven until top is dry, about 30 minutes. Remove pie from the oven and set aside to cool slightly. Increase oven temperature to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• Meanwhile, whisk together sugar, cocoa powder, cornstarch and salt for the chocolate custard in a saucepan. Gradually whisk in milk. Cook and stir over medium-high heat until thickened, 5 to 7 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook for about 2 minutes more. Pour beaten egg gradually into the chocolate custard, stirring as you pour. Cook and stir for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in vanilla extract.
• Pour chocolate custard over the baked pie. Arrange regular marshmallows on top of the pie and sprinkle miniature marshmallows to fill in any gaps.
• Bake until marshmallows are lightly browned, about 5 minutes; keep an eye on it because you do not want marshmallows to melt.
• Place cream for chocolate ganache in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on High until hot, making sure it doesn't bubble over, about 45 seconds to 1 minute. Mix in chocolate, butter, and coffee granules. Microwave for another 30 seconds then stir until smooth. Let sit until it thickens, 15 to 20 minutes. Drizzle chocolate ganache over the pie.

CHOCOLATE S'MORES PIE

Steps:

• Adjust an oven rack to the center position and heat oven to 325 degrees. Process crackers in a food processor until fine crumbs form, about 30 seconds. Add sugar and melted butter over top and pulse to incorporate until the crumbs come together, about 5 pulses.
• Pour mixture into a pie plate and evenly press crumbs on the bottom and up the sides of the pie plate with the bottom of a measuring cup. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until browned and fragrant. Transfer crust to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Place chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl.
• In a small saucepan, bring the cream to a simmer over medium-low heat. Pour the cream over chocolate and butter and let stand for 30 seconds. Whisk cream, chocolate and butter to combine until completely melted and smooth.
• Pour the ganache into the cooled pie crust. Smooth the top out with an offset spatula and store in a cake container. Alternatively, loosely cover with plastic wrap, being sure the plastic does not touch the surface of the ganache. Let stand at room temperature for 4 hours or overnight.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer, whisk together egg whites, sugar, salt, cream of tartar and vanilla extract by hand. Place mixer bowl on top of a saucepan with a few inches of simmering water, making sure the bottom of the mixer bowl does not touch the water. Attach a thermometer to the mixer bowl and cook until mixture reaches 160 degrees, whisking frequently, about 15 minutes.
• Carefully transfer mixer bowl to the stand mixer with the whisk attachment attached. Whisk mixture on high speed until thick and glossy and egg whites have tripled in volume, about 8 minutes.
• Pipe or dollop meringue on top of ganache in a decorative fashion. If using Ateco piping tip #827 pipe stars around the entire surface of the chocolate filling. Pipe a second layer of stars around the sides moving inward. As you move inward, pipe large stars going up to give a domed look when looking at the side of the pie.
• With a kitchen torch, gently toast the topping. If you don't have a kitchen torch, adjust an oven rack to the center position and heat oven to 400 degrees. Bake until the topping had browned, about 6 minutes. You can also use the broiler but be careful as this can burn the meringue quickly.

4-INGREDIENT S'MORES PIE

Steps:

• Combine the chocolate chips and cream in a large microwave-safe bowl and heat for 2 1/2 minutes. Stir until completely smooth (the chocolate may appear separated at first, but just keep stirring). Pour into the prepared pie crust, loosely cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until set, about 4 hours or up to overnight.
• Preheat the broiler.
• Use kitchen shears to cut each marshmallow in half, on a bias, from one corner to the opposite corner. Arrange the marshmallow halves, cut-side down, on top of the chilled pie. Broil until golden, watching closely and rotating the pan as needed, about 1 minute. Let the pie cool completely, then cover loosely with plastic wrap and return to the fridge until the ganache sets again, 1 to 2 hours.

COFFEE S'MORES PIE

Steps:

• For graham cracker crust:
• Mix graham cracker crumbs and remaining ingredients in a small bowl to blend. Press mixture onto bottom and up sides of pie dish; chill until crust is firm, about 30 minutes.
• For coffee ganache:
• Place chocolate and butter in a large bowl. Bring cream, coffee, and 2 tablespoons water to a boil in a small saucepan. Remove from heat; cover and let steep for 5 minutes.
• Strain cream mixture through a fine-mesh sieve into bowl with chocolate and butter; discard coffee grounds. Stir until melted and ganache is smooth. Pour into chilled crust; smooth top. Chill until set, about 1 hour.
• For meringue:
• Meringue Using an electric mixer with clean, dry beaters on medium speed, beat egg whites in a medium bowl until light and frothy. Add sugar in 4 additions, beating for 1 minute after each addition. Continue beating egg whites until stiff and glossy.
• Spoon meringue over coffee ganache; swirl decoratively with a spatula or the back of a spoon. Using a kitchen torch, if desired, toast meringue until golden brown in spots. DO AHEAD: Pie can be made 8 hours ahead. Keep chilled.

TRIPLE CHOCOLATE S'MORE PIE

Steps:

• For the crust: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Spray the inside of a 9-inch pie pan with non-stick cooking spray. In a bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and melted butter. Press mixture firmly into sprayed pie pan, covering bottom and sides. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes. Set aside to cool.
• For filling: In a microwave safe bowl, combine milk chocolate chips, 1/2 cup condensed milk, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Microwave for 2 minutes on medium (50 percent) power. Alternately, combine all ingredients and melt in a double boiler. Stir until all chips are melted and pour into bottom of cooled crust. Set in refrigerator while preparing second layer.
• For second layer, repeat above process using the vanilla chips. Pour over milk chocolate layer. Set in refrigerator while preparing third layer. For third layer repeat above process using the dark chocolate chips. Pour over white chocolate layer.
• Preheat the broiler. Evenly cover top with miniature marshmallows. Place under broiler for a few minutes just until marshmallows are lightly browned. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.

FUDGY S'MORES BROWNIE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a small bowl, toss 1/2 cup of chocolate chips with 1 TBSP brownie mix. (This will help keep the chips from all sinking in the mix).
• Combine brownie mix, egg, oil, and water in a medium mixing bowl.
• Mix on low to medium speed until combined.
• Fold in marshmallows and dusted chocolate chips.
• Pour into crust and bake for 30-35 minutes (crust will be quite full, a cookie sheet underneath is a good idea) or until it is set - gooey is good, liquid is bad.
• Let pie cool completely.
• While the pie is baking, heat cream in a small saucepan. until the first bubbles appear. Do not bring to a full boil.
• Pour hot cream over the mini chocolate chips (mini chips will melt better than standard size, but you can use any finely chopped chocolate).
• Let the cream and chips stand for a minute to soften, then stir until smooth.
• The ganache needs to be at room temperature to whip. You can either chill it completely and then let it sit on the counter at room temperature for a half hour, or just pop it in the freezer for 15-30 minutes then let it sit at room temperature. Once you have slightly cool chocolate ganache, whip it on high until thick and fluffy, like mousse.
• Top pie with whipped ganache.
• You can decorate with mini marshmallows and/or chocolate candies (Hershey Kisses are lovely for this) or eat as is.