Hi all, it’s that time again for the Secret Recipe Club reveal. Basically, SRC is a group of bloggers who get together once a month. We’re all assigned a blog and asked to pick out a recipe from that blog. We make the recipe, tweaking things here and there, as we see fit, then, there’s this big reveal. The entire thing is a secret until our day comes around. Like today.
This month I was assigned April’s Blog of Angel Foods Kitchen. April’s style of cooking is good southern food, family favorites and freezer meal ideas, lots of great recipes to choose from.
But, when I saw she had a recipe for Minnie’s Chocolate Pie from the book “The Help”, I just had to try it. I just finished reading “The Help” and had to make Minnie’s Famous Pie, minus the secret ingredient, of course. Have you read the book? I just loved it and the movie is really good too.
This pie was simple to make and delicious. My mom described it as a chocolate chess pie, but I think it was just a delicious easy pie to eat and make.
Ingredients: 1 store bought or homemade pie crust; 1½ cups sugar; 3 heaping tablespoons unsweetened cocoa; ¼ cup unsalted butter, melted; 2 eggs, slightly beaten; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1-5 ounce can evaporated milk (double check your can, they come in different sizes); 1 teaspoon vanilla; fresh whipped cream for serving.
Roll out and press your pie crust into your pie plate. Be sure to crimp the edges, and prick the bottom and sides with a fork.
In your mixer add, sugar, melted butter, and cocoa, mix well.
Then add in slightly beaten eggs and beat for 3 minutes.
Then add salt, 5 ounces of evaporated milk,
and vanilla. Beat until combined.
Pour filling into unbaked pie shell.
and bake for 40-50 minutes until pie crust is golden brown and the center of the pie is slightly set. Set aside until fully cooled.
Whip up some fresh whipping cream.
Cut a slice and add a big dollop of whipping cream on top.
I love how it separated into two distinctive layers. Yum.
Minnie’s Chocolate Pie
From “The Help”
1 store bought or homemade pie crust
1½ cups sugar
3 heaping Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
¼ cup unsalted butter, melted
2 eggs, slightly beaten
¼ teaspoon salt
1-5 oz. can evaporated milk (Double check your can, they come in different sizes)
1 teaspoon vanilla
Fresh Whipped Cream for servingFit crust into 9″ pie pan. (Don’t fill to full, it WILL overflow) Crimp edges and prick bottom and sides.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix sugar, cocoa and butter in a mixing bowl.
Add eggs and beat with a mixer 3 minutes. Add salt, milk and vanilla.
Beat until combined.
Pour filling into shell and bake for 40-50 minutes or until edges are brown and filling is slightly set in the middle. Cool completely before serving. Top with fresh whipping cream.
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This looks really good!! I agree with your mom, it looks a lot like a chocolate chess pie. I’m playing around with how the best way to turn my buttermilk pie into a chocolate buttermilk pie. I haven’t tried cocoa straight in the mixture yet, I might do that next!
Thanks for sharing!
Willa
I’m glad you got my blog this month and chose this pie, I love how it separates into two distinct layers as well. It’s a yummy pie, without the “secret” ingredient of course! 🙂
@April @ Angel Foods Kitchen, Thanks, I really enjoyed browsing your blog! Nice to cyber stalk you for awhile, lol!! You have so many yummy recipes it was hard to choose, but I am glad I choose this one, it was fun.
I read the Help this summer and have been wanting to make a chocolate pie too! This one sounds amazing and 2 layers make it look even better!!!
Um . . . yum!
Yum! This pie looks delicious! And I love your fancy measuring spoon. Is that the kind that clicks to different sizes?
Love this recipe!! Looks absolutely incredible, I feel like I could gobble that thing up in 5 minutes flat;)
That is one beautiful pie! I’ll be right over with a fork and a plate! 😉
This looks like a delicious and decadent pie. I love how it separated into two layers too! Yum!
That is one gorgeous pie!
Chocolate is such a lovely food….what would we ever do without chocolate! LOVE the looks of your pie. How fun that it comes from the book The Help! I’ve been thinking that I really should read this book – I think you have pushed me further into the right direction with your yummy pie! 😉
So fun to be part of SRC with you!
Those photographs are making me crave for chocolate. Yum yum …
WOW Yum! Just followed you 🙂
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Hi,
I am hosting a Holiday Cookie Recipe swap and would love to get the word out to other bloggers to post and share their recipe. I do get good traffic on my site so it would mean traffic for others.
http://happyhomemakercindy.com/2011/11/the-hhc-holiday-cookie-recipe-swap/
I would love it if you could share the idea with you blogger friends.
Delicious! I loved that book and I want this pie! Thanks for sharing on Crazy Sweet Tuesday. 🙂
in the process of reading the Help- I’ll have to make this afterwards too to celebrate 🙂
I read the book too. LOVED IT! We just had a girls night out and saw the movie at the $1 movie theater in town. It was so good. I thought it looked like a chocolate chess pie, yum!!! I’ll have to give it a try!
Hi Sweet Pea,
This is an awesome Chocolate Pie, it really looks fabulous! Hope you are having a great week end and thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen
Slightly late, but thanks so much for linking up to Friday Food on Momtrends.com last week! This sounds wonderful, my mom used to make a chocolate pie I loved. ~Shannon