Old Fashioned Chess Pie With Chess Cookies

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This delicious Chess Pie is served with an oatmeal cookie chaff.  So proficient,  some people phone call it Crevice Pie. It is that addictive!  Just 1 bite and you will be hooked!

I was reading an commodity in the Oregonian FoodDay when I saw a recipe about the Cleft Pie they were selling at the Momofuku Bakery and the Milk Bar in Manhattan.  They were selling for $44 a pie.   The title of the article is what caught my attention. "Y'all'll get hooked on Cleft Pie".

Crack Pie from the Milk Bar

After a niggling investigating, I discovered that this pie was but a traditional chess pie, made with butter eggs, sugar and vanilla.  But in that location was one delicious difference.  This pie had a crust fabricated from oatmeal cookies!  An oatmeal cookie crust!  Who tin turn that down!  The bakery of course makes their own oatmeal cookies and I used this recipe, merely if you are brusk on time y'all could cheat and use store bought oatmeal cookies to make the crust.

This pie is delicious chilled and only as good warm.  The recipe makes ii pies, and so you can endeavor information technology both ways!  One bite and you will understand why they call this Chess Pie I "Crack" pie.  Yous will not be able to stop at ane bite.   I wanted to eat the entire pie by myself.

Baking Tips for Chess Pie

The pie will seem undercooked when you remove it from the oven.  It will be aureate brown on top, just all the same jiggly.  As well, The pie will be puffy when it comes out, merely will autumn and flatten out every bit information technology cools.  Don't worry, it is supposed to do that.

Subsequently it has cooled a scrap, sprinkle with powdered carbohydrate to make it a little prettier.

You can serve it with powdered sugar or without but it is much prettier with!

It is your choice.  Either way, it tastes like sky! The big debate though is whether you consume it warm or chilled?  I've eaten it both ways and information technology is delicious both means but I prefer it warm. The recipe makes two pies so you tin try information technology both ways like I did.   After you requite it a effort, come dorsum and let me know which way you prefer it.  Chilled or warm?  The recipe can also be easily halved to brand only one pie.

Originally posted March 2010

Other favorite pie recipes:

• Peanut Butter Pie
• Easy Apple Pie
• Sour Cream Lemon Pie

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 Chess Pie Recipe

Prep: 20 minutes

Cook: 20 minutes

Total: 40 minutes

Cookie for crust:

• ▢ 2/iii C plus 1 Tbsp all purpose flour
• ▢ Scant 1/8 tsp baking pulverisation
• ▢ Scant 1/eight tsp. blistering soda
• ▢ 1/4 tsp salt
• ▢ 1/ii C butter softened
• ▢ ane/iii C firmly packed calorie-free brown sugar
• ▢ 3 Tbsp sugar
• ▢ one egg
• ▢ scant 1 C old fashioned oatmeal uncooked

Crust:

• ▢ Crumbled cookie for crust run into above
• ▢ one/4 C butter
• ▢ 1 i/two Tbsp firmly packed brown sugar
• ▢ 1/eight tsp table salt

Filling:

• ▢ 1 ane/2 C granulated carbohydrate
• ▢ 3/four C plus a scant iii Tbsp firmly packed lite dark-brown sugar
• ▢ ane/4 tsp salt
• ▢ 1/3 C plus ane tsp powdered milk
• ▢ 1 C butter melted
• ▢ 3/4 C plus a scant ii Tbsp whipping cream
• ▢ 1 tsp vanilla
• ▢ 8 egg yolks
• ▢ 2 prepared crusts come across above
• ▢ powdered sugar for garnish.

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees

• In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, blistering soda and salt – yes I sifted it!

• In your mixer using the paddle zipper beat the butter, brown sugar and sugar until light and fluffy

• Whisk the egg into the butter mixture until fluffy and incorporated

• With the mixture running, shell in the flour mixture a niggling at a fourth dimension until totally combined

• Stir in the oatmeal until well incorporated

• Spread the mixture into a ix x thirteen inch baking pan and bake until aureate brown and set, about twenty minutes

• Remove from oven and cool on rack

• Crumble the cooked cookie to utilize in the crust

• Combine the crumbled cookie, butter, brown sugar and common salt in a food processor and pulse until evenly combined and blended ( a little of the mixture volition clump together betwixt your fingers and hold together)

• Divide the chaff between the 2 10 inch pie pans

• Press the crust into each shell to form a sparse even layer forth the bottom and sides of the tins Don't worry virtually making it beautiful – it is going to gustation cute!

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

• In a large basin, whisk together the sugar, dark-brown sugar, common salt and powdered milk

• Whisk in the melted butter and so whisk in the cream and vanilla

• Gently whisk in the egg yolks, existence careful non to add too much air

• Split up the filling evenly between 2 pie shells

• Bake the pies one at a fourth dimension for xv minutes, and so reduce the heat to 325 degrees and bake until the filling is slightly jiggly and aureate brownish (like to a pecan pie) about x minutes or fifteen minutes if using a ix inch pie pan

• Remove pie from oven and absurd on rack

• Refrigerate the cooled pies until well chilled

• Dust with powdered sugar

Calories: 521 kcal (26%) Carbohydrates: 52 g (17%) Poly peptide: 4 thou (eight%) Fat: 33 one thousand (51%) Saturated Fat: 18 1000 (113%) Cholesterol: 179 mg (60%) Sodium: 382 mg (17%) Potassium: 106 mg (three%) Saccharide: 37 g (41%) Vitamin A: 955 IU (19%) Vitamin C: 0.3 mg Calcium: 69 mg (7%) Iron: 1.2 mg (7%)

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

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