Pie Recipes
Chocolate Amaretto Crunch Pie
Ingredients
Crust
- 3/4 cup finely ground Amaretto cookies
- 2/3 cup finely chopped almonds
- 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
Filling
- 12 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 2 eggs, separated (room temperature)
- 3 tablespoons Amaretto liqueur
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
Crust
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Combine cookies, almonds, sugar, flour and salt in processor.
- With machine running, add butter through feed tube and mix for 20 seconds.
- Pat mixture onto bottom and side of a 10 inch tart pan with removable bottom. Bake for 15 minutes.
- Cool crust completely.
Filling
- Melt chocolate in large bowl; set over pan of gently simmering water; stir until smooth. Remove from over water.
- Beat in yolks; mixture may bind.
- Using electric mixer, beat in liqueur. Mixture will smooth out.
- Using clean, dry beaters, beat whites with 1 tablespoon sugar until soft peaks form. Gently fold whites into chocolate mixture.
- Using clean, dry beaters, beat cream with remaining sugar and vanilla extract until soft peaks form. Fold 1 cup into chocolate mixture.
- Cover and refrigerate remaining cream.
- Spoon filling into crust.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 6 hours.
- Fill pastry bag with remaining cream and pipe rosettes atop pie before serving.