Mocha Pudding Pie

[mlravenwrites]

Based on Silky Chocolate Pudding from Smitten Kitchen and Mocha Cream Pie from Country Living, with heavy modifications by me.

Happy Pi Day! This is a goat-dairy mocha (chocolate/coffee) pudding pie. It's delicious, but time-consuming!

Ingredients:

• Approximately 1/2 box (4 oz) of Kinnikinnick Chocolate Animal Crackers (or similar gf chocolate wafer cookies)
• 2 TBspn + 67 grams white sugar
• 1/4 tsp + 1/8 tsp table salt
• Approximately 4 TBspn goat butter, melted
• 50 grams potato starch
• 2 TBspn instant coffee
• 3 c full-fat goat milk
• 4 oz semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
• 2 oz bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Time:

I'm bad with time, but it probably takes ~45m active time, plus 3 hours, or ideally overnight, to chill.

Tools:

It's nice to have a food processor, but you can also crush the crackers by hand/with a potato masher/in a bag with a mallet.

Instructions:

Make the crust:

• Approximately 1/2 box (4 oz) of Kinnikinnick Chocolate Animal Crackers (or similar gf chocolate wafer cookies)
• 2 TBspn white sugar
• 1/4 tsp table salt
• Approximately 4 TBspn goat butter, melted

1. Preheat oven to 350 deg F.
2. Pulse animal crackers, 2 TBspn sugar, and 1/4 tspn salt in food processor until fine crumbs form.
3. Add 4 TBspn melted butter and pulse a few more times until well-mixed with dry ingredients.
4. Open food processor and check if the mixture sticks together well. If it doesn’t, add more melted butter, 1 tsp at a time, until the mixture sticks together.
5. Press the mixture into the bottom of a lightly-greased cake or pie tin. I used an 8” nonstick cake pan.
6. Bake until crust is dry and set, around 18 to 20 minutes. Will vary if you use a different size pan, due to thickness of crust.
7. Let cool on a rack as you make the pudding.

Make the pudding:

• 50 grams potato starch
• 67 grams white sugar
• 1/8 tsp table salt
• 2 TBspn instant coffee
• 3 c full-fat goat milk
• 4 oz semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
• 2 oz bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Do not multitask while making pudding. You must stir for ~10 seconds every minute or it becomes a lumpy mess. Sadly, I speak from experience ;)

1. Combine the potato starch, sugar, salt, and instant coffee in a medium saucepan.
2. Slowly whisk in the milk, in a thin steam at first so that lumps don’t form, then more quickly once the potato starch mixture is smoothly incorporated.
3. Place over medium-low heat and stir occasionally, scraping the bottom and sides. Use a whisk as necessary should lumps begin to form. After 10 minutes or so (slower over lower heat is better, to give the potato starch time to cook), before it starts to simmer, the mixture should begin to thicken, enough that it will coat the back of a spoon.
4. Add the chopped chocolate, and continue stirring for another 2 to 4 minutes, until chocolate is fully incorporated and mixture is quite thick.
5. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla.
6. Optional: If you’re concerned about lumps: Run mixture through a fine-mesh strainer.
7. Dump pudding into cake/pie pan on top of crust.
8. Chill at least 3 hours, or ideally, overnight.

Notes/Variations/etc:

• If you like more coffee in your mocha, you could increase the instant coffee to 3 TBspn. If you do, but you still want a balanced (not overly-bitter) pie, you may want to alter the ratio of semi-sweet to bittersweet chocolate.
• Since this was based on two cow-dairy recipes, you should be able to replace the goat butter/milk with their cow equivalents. Just be sure to use whole milk or a whole milk/heavy cream combo (I think).
• You could probably sprinkle some cinnamon on top of the finished pie for an additional flair, but I haven't tried it yet.

Comments

[runpunkrun]

The comm's first recipe, and you did a beautiful and thorough job of sharing it! Thank you!

[lunabee34]

Inaugural recipe! Thanks for sharing. This looks awesome.

[jesse_the_k]

Goat dairy & chocolate are a cosmically delicious blend. Thanks for such a well-written recipe.

[mlravenwrites]

You're welcome! I love your phrase "cosmically delicious!" I have to remember it for the future (with credit ;)).

[spikedluv]

It's here! *g* And it sounds so good! I've been using a store-bought graham cracker crust for certain things; do you think that would be a good substitute here?

[mlravenwrites]

Yeah, that should be fine. Let me know how it goes!

[spikedluv]

I will, thank you!