Chocolate Raspberry Silk Pie

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Want to make something extra special for your holiday dinner? Make this pie. It is my quintessential perfect pie. Seriously–raspberries, chocolate and whipped cream altogether in one pie pan? What could be better (don’t tell me pumpkin pie because it’s just not, okay?).

So I have something really fun to tell you! Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk has CARAMEL and CHOCOLATE flavored sweetened condensed milk now (for a limited time). I know, so exciting, right?! You’ve trusted this brand for 150 years (not you, per se, but your great grandma did and so on :). So you know this product is going to be awesome quality just like their regular sweetened condensed milk!

 

I’m thinking the caramel flavored sweetened condensed milk would be amazing in those Magic Cookie Bars. Or using a can of chocolate sweetened condensed milk in your fudge recipes this Christmas! The options are endless. I saw the caramel and chocolate flavored sweetened condensed milks in the baking aisle at my grocery store (I also saw them on an end cap). Think about how these limited-edition flavors can make great shortcuts in your baking recipes. For example, instead of chopping up chocolate you can just add Eagle Brand Chocolate Flavored Sweetened Condensed milk to your favorite chocolate recipes. And it’s the same idea with the caramel flavor…it makes it so easy and more importantly–delicious!!

So today, I decided to share a recipe that is based on my personal winner from last year’s Thanksgiving pie spread. The Raspberry Chocolate Silk pie by Uncle Gary.

It’s got the tartness from the raspberries and a french silk chocolate filling which is creamy and chocolatey and totally amazing. I think for this year’s Thanksgiving we should do away with some of the less popular pies (I’m looking at you apple, pumpkin and rhubarb) and make 5 of these instead. I would not complain about that–no siree!

So I asked Uncle Gary how he made this pie and he told me he had combined a couple of different recipes. Then I took those 2 recipes and changed them up again. I’m not sure if my version was as good as Uncle Gary’s but I do believe it was very very close if not just as good.  I hope you like it too…in fact, I know you’ll like it too.

You’ll start with some of these beauties. I found mine just at Walmart and I know Costco carries really good berries too.

You’ll crush the berries with a potato masher (or some other instrument that you have lying around). Then you’ll add the berries to a saucepan, pour in 1/2 a can of chocolate sweetened condensed milk and some cornstarch. You’ll heat up the saucepan and stir until thickened. This mixture is what is going to go on the bottom of the pie. I used a frozen pre-made crust but you can also use homemade crust (here is a good tutorial) or a graham cracker crust. It’s totally up to you.

You’ll then make the chocolate silk pie filling. You’ll mix eggs, chocolate, sugar, butter and the rest of the sweetened condensed milk…and you’ll mix and mix and mix and mix. I recommend using a stand mixer for this recipe. There is a lot of mixing!!!

After you get the chocolate layer done you’ll add it to the raspberry layer and let it set in the refrigerator for 3 hours. I know it’s a long time to wait. It seemed like an eternity to me. But let’s just say that good things come to those who wait. If you’re making this for Thanksgiving I would definitely make it the night before. I made this on Saturday and I ate a piece that night and a piece the next day. I think the piece on Sunday was actually better!