Kelly's French Silk Chocolate Pie

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 keebler 8-inch graham cracker crust (or homemade)
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate squares
• 1 teaspoon good vanilla
• 2 eggs
• cool whip
• 1 plain hershey bar, room temp
• maraschino cherry (optional)

Recipe

• 1 in microwave, melt chocolate, set aside to cool.
• 2 in medium bowl, cream butter, gradually add sugar, cream well.
• 3 mix in melted, cooled chocolate and vanilla.
• 4 add eggs 1 at a time, beating 5 minutes each, and scraping sides of bowl often to incorporate all sugar.
• 5 (beat until no longer any grains of sugar).
• 6 spoon and smooth into pie crust.
• 7 chill until set, about 1 hour.
• 8 serve topped with cool whip, chocolate shavings and a maraschino cherry.
• 9 *double this recipe for a 9-inch deep dish pie.
• 10 variations: add, in addition to vanilla, 1 teaspoons peppermint extract, tint cool whip pink for valentines day, green for st patty’s day.
• 11 top with crushed peppermint sticks/candy canes just before serving for christmas.