Hey everyone, Sam here from Sugar Spun Run and today I'll be showing you how to make an easy chocolate icebox pie.
chocolate icebox pie is great any time of the year but I especially love it when the warm weather hits. This pie
requires no stovetop, or oven, or any baking at all, and it's very simple to
make. Now the first thing that you need for this recipe is one nine and a half
inch Oreo crust. Now this is a very simple crust. I'm going to link to my
recipe for an Oreo crust in the description below, and you do not need to
bake it. All you need to do is assemble it in your pie plate and this is going
to go in the fridge where it's going to wait until we're ready to fill it. Now
the next thing that you're going to need is eight ounces of dark, or semi-sweet,
chocolate. You can use a chopped-up bar of chocolate. That is completely fine.
It would actually be two four ounce bars that you would need, but I'm actually
just going to be using chocolate chips they work really well too.
This is 8 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate chips. Now to our chocolate we are going
to add 1/2 cup of heavy cream. Now this whole recipe, you will need one and a
half cups of heavy cream. We're just using one half cup right now. We'll add
this in with our chocolate. Now we're just going to head over to our microwave
where we will heat our chocolate and our cream mixture in 20 to 25 second
increments until the chocolate is completely melted and the mixture is smooth.
Iit is very important that you stir every 20 to 25 seconds, otherwise
you could end up seizing your chocolate.
Now that this is nicely melted, I like to add 3/4 teaspoon of instant coffee. Now this is optional, but I do want to note
that it's not going to make your chocolate icebox pie taste like coffee.
It just really accentuates and brings out that chocolate flavor. We'll stir this
We'll stir this in.
So now that we've prepped our chocolate, which is essentially a
chocolate ganache, it's very important that we let that cool completely before
we go any further with that. So I'm going to just set that aside for now and while
I'm waiting for it to cool, we'll go ahead and prepare our whipped cream. Now
this chocolate icebox pie uses a homemade whipped cream. This is one of my
favorite recipes, and all you're going to need is that remaining 1 cup of heavy
cream and you do want to make sure your cream is nice and cold at this point.
we're also going to add 1/4 cup of powdered sugar.
Now you're going to need an electric mixer to beat together your cream and
your sugar until stiff peaks form. You're going to want to use your mixer on high
speed. It's gonna take a couple minutes. Now that we've made our whipped cream
and our chocolate has hopefully cooled by now. We can go on and make the rest of
our filling. Now the first thing you'll need for this is two 8-ounce bricks of
softened cream cheese. So 16 ounces of cream cheese. Make sure this is softened to room temperature.
We're going to add our cream cheese to a large bowl and now
we can add our chocolate. Now, again, it is very important that this chocolate is no
longer warm to the touch. It shouldn't be hot to the touch. It shouldn't even be
warm to the touch. So if you put your hand on the bottom of
the bowl, you shouldn't feel any heat radiating off of that. We're going to add this into our cream cheese.
I use an electric mixer to beat together the chocolate and cream cheese until it's smooth and creamy.
Make sure you scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl as needed.
Now we'll stir in a 1 cup of powdered sugar.
1/3 cup of sour cream. This really helps to bring out a really good flavor in this pie.
This kind of gives our pie an almost cheesecake like flavor.
And one teaspoon of pure vanilla extract. Stir these in.
Everything's pretty well combined so now I'm going to switch over to using my spatula,
and I'm just going to finish stirring everything together by hand.
Now that everything is combined here, we can
add in our final ingredient which is that whipped cream that we prepped
earlier. I'm just going to stir this in by hand.
We'll just pour our filling pie crust and you'll want to smooth out the top so it's nice and even.
Our icebox pie is now going to need to go to the fridge where it will chill for at
least 6 hours or preferably overnight.
Once our pie has finished chilling, it is ready to serve. Now you can serve this as is, but I always love topping mine off
with just a little bit of homemade whipped cream. Now you could use
store-bought Cool Whip, but I really think there's no substitute for the homemade stuff.
Alright and now we can go ahead and dig in.
And that is how you make chocolate icebox pie. This pie is so
creamy, and fluffy, and nice, and cool, and refreshing, and of course very chocolatey.
I really think you're going to love this, especially if you're a fan of cheesecake.
It does kind of remind me a bit of chocolate cheesecake. If you guys enjoy
today's recipe, I really hope you'll leave me a comment. I always love hearing
from you thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you next time.
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