Friday, March 16, 2012

French Silk Pie- Gayle Smith?

I remember Katie Smith making a French Silk Pie for one of our Thanksgiving day gatherings at the Andrews.  I'm not sure if it's Gayle's bubbly handwriting on the recipe card- it's definitely not Kate's which I still remember.



3/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
4 1/2 Tbsp. cocoa powder
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla

Cream butter well.  Add sugar slowly while beating, then cocoa and vanilla.
Add eggs one at a time- beating 5 minutes minimum for each egg.

Crust:  Crumble Old Fashioned Chocolate wafers (1 box) with hands or rolling pin to desired texture.  Pour in melted butter* and stir until mixture is able to stick together.
Press into pie pan and pour in the filling.  Top with cool whip and chocoalte shavings.

Best to refrigerate before serving.

*The amount is missing so I found a recipe on-line:


Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups chocolate cookie crumbs
  • 6 tablespoons butter, melted

Directions

  1. Mix crumbs and melted butter or margarine until well blended. Press into an 8 or 9 inch pie plate. Chill until firm.


1 comment:

  1. This is an amazing recipe but I don't remember where I first got it. I thought it was in the old CAJ cookbook, but I do recall that it said you absolutely CANNOT scrimp on the beating time for each egg.

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