Mississippi Mud Pie

Here's another recipe that has been sitting in the "drafts" folder for years, and that's because I haven't ever gotten around to making it, so don't have any pictures of the finished product. Maybe it's because I don't have any chocolate extract. However, I know it's a good one - the recipe was given to me by my daughter-in-law - and so I'll just post it without pictures. Maybe that will help motivate me to buy some of that extract and try it myself sometime!

Mississippi Mud Pie

Pie Dough:

1 1/2 cups flour
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1/2 cup butter
2 tablespoons superfine sugar
1-3 Tbsp. cold water

• Sift the flour and cocoa into a mixing bowl.
• Rub in the butter with fingertips/pastry cutter until mixture resembles fine bread crumbs.
• Stir in sugar and enough cold water to mix into a soft dough.
• Wrap dough in plastic wrap and let chill in refrigerator for 15 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
• Roll out dough on a floured counter and use to line a 9-inch ceramic pie dish.
• Line with parchment paper and fill with dried beans.
• Bake in oven for 15 minutes.
• Remove from oven and take out the paper and beans.
• Bake for an additional 10 minutes.

Filling:

3/4 cup butter
1 3/4 cups packed brown sugar
4 eggs, lightly beaten
1/4 cup cocoa, sifted
5 1/2 ounces semisweet chocolate chips (about 7/8 cup)
1 1/4 cups light cream (or 5/8 cup heavy cream and 5/8 cup skim milk)
1 teaspoon chocolate extract

• Beat the sugar and butter together in a bowl.
• Gradually beat in the eggs and cocoa.
• Melt the chocolate chips.
• Beat melted chocolate, cream, and chocolate extract into the mixture.
• Reduce the oven temperature to 325 degrees.
• Pour the mixture into the pie shell and bake for 45 minutes, or until the filling has set.

To Decorate:

1-2 cups whipped cream
Chocolate flakes and curls

• Let the mud pie cool completely.
• Cover with whipped cream.
• Decorate pie with chocolate flakes and curls.
• Chill until ready to serve.

We finally bought the chocolate extract and made this pie. It was delicious! The crust was too hard for our tastes so we probably won't make it again, but the filling makes a great pudding. There was more than fit in the pie crust, we cooked it in a souffle dish and that turned out great.