Heavenly French Silk Pie Recipe

A flakey crust is filled with a decadent, dreamy, creamy, chocolate filling and topped with pillows of cream for this irresistible French Silk Pie. The filling is so smooth and rich, and then encased in a buttery crust. It’s a crowd pleaser where ever you serve it! Add this show-stopper dessert to others like Better Than Anything Cake, Lemon Tart with a Buttery Shortbread Crust and Easy Tiramisu as one that will disappear fast!

Homemade French Silk Pie

This pie truly is a chocolate lovers dream pie. The rich chocolaty filling can be adjusted to your level of chocolateness. And because we heat the eggs, you don’t have to worry about eating raw egg. You can just enjoy the velvety smoothness without a care in the world. Serve this at any holiday or special occasion and watch your friends and family turn you into a hero. Everyone loves a good dessert made with love…and chocolate….and cream!

Baking the Crust

Flour: All purpose flour is best, so it holds its structure Sugar: Helps as a binder and browning Salt: Gives it flavor Butter: Butter gives it that flakey goodness Cold Water: To add moisture

Ingredients for Creamy Dreamy Mousse Filling

Heavy Cream: Don’t substitute Powdered Sugar: Using powdered sugar gives sweetness without graininess. Unsweetened Baking Chocolate: Or unsweetened chocolate bar Bittersweet Baking Chocolate: Or chocolate bar Eggs: Creates the binder and light fluffiness Sugar: Gives the sweet to the bitter Butter: soften the butter to room temp Vanilla: Divided

Whipped Cream Ingredients

Heavy Cream: You’ll want it to whip up nice and high Powdered Sugar: Dissolves easily Vanilla: Add the sweet flavor Garnish: Chocolate curls

Making the Best French Silk Pie Crust

Mousse Filling

Whipped Cream Topping

Add whipping cream and powdered sugar in a stand mixer and beat on medium speed. Stream in the vanilla and beat until stiff peaks form. Spread on top of pie and add garnishing as desired.

Making French Silk Heavenly

There are a few tips for this decadent French silk pie!

Chocolate: This recipe creates a decadent rich chocolate flavor,if you’d like a lighter chocolate taste switch out the unsweetened for bittersweet and then switch the bittersweet for semi-sweet. I do not recommend using chocolate chips. Use a fine baking bar such as Bakers or Ghirardelli or another quality chocolate bar. You won’t regret it. Cream: Because you need to really whip the cream and create perfect fluffiness, I don’t recommend using substitutions for the Heavy Cream. Pie Crust: You can use a premade pie crust to speed the process. Bake as directed on package. You can also make an chocolate cookie crust if you desire as well. Eggs: Because we bring the eggs up to a safe 160 degrees, you don’t have to worry about eating raw eggs! So serve to anyone and everyone. Be sure heat it slowly however so it doesn’t cook. Just Beat it: To get a heavenly smooth silky texture to your chocolate filling you need to beat it more than you think you do. Beating the process for a long time ensures that the sugar dissolves and butter and eggs become light and fluffy.

Storing and Freezing Your Pie

You’ll love the fact that you can make it ahead of time and freeze it for later too.

Make ahead:This definitely takes time to make, but it’s so worth it and what makes it better is you can make it ahead of time. Make and refrigerate up to 2 days ahead of time. Just don’t put the whipped topping on top till ready to serve. Freezing: Make the pie as directed but don’t put the whipped topping on, refrigerate for 2 hours. Cover completely with plastic wrap, then cover with foil, and freeze up to 2 months. Thaw in the fridge overnight. Make whipped topping and garnish as desired.

More Chocolate Desserts to Conquer

Because chocolate is always the right answer to what’s for dessert.

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All nutritional information is based on third party calculations and is only an estimate. Each recipe and nutritional value will vary depending on the brands you use, measuring methods and portion sizes per household.