This week's Craving Ellie in My Belly recipe is from Tessa at Handle the Heat. It's a wonderful, decadent, double choco
late, more healthy than a normal chocolate pie, pudding pie. To see the complete recipe, please visit Tessa's blog. I've been looking forward to this recipe for the last week now. Anytime you have a homemade graham cracker crust with dark chocolate and it's all under 300 calories per slice - you can't go wrong. This pudding pi
e is also pretty firm. It held up to a knife and I'm sure it would hold up to a circular cookie cutter (for mini individual desserts). I read the reviews and noticed a lot of people thought the graham mixture wasn't enough. I decided to pat the crumb mixture (graham cracker, butter and water) into a springform cake pan. If I was making this for some sort of get together I would have re-plated onto a *pretty* platter, but let's be honest.. I wanted it all for myself.. and maybe the few people (other than the hu
bby) who got half a piece.. tee hee. I followed the recipe's exact measurements, but decided to decorate with whipped cream and strawberries, yum! I thought this added some bright, juicy red flavor and it definitely brightened up the dish. The one weird thing about the pie is the texture. I'm kind of a big texture person (probably why I didn't like cold pureed cucumber soup), but this pie was great. Thanks Tessa! The filling is a little jigglie though and reminded me of an old woman waving her arms yelling "Bingo!!"... not to be offensive 
to anyone, but it made me laugh. Back to the strawberries.. it was a nice balance to the dark chocolate. I plated and added some chocolate syrup swirlie things (I couldn't resist). So far I've done good keeping to one piece a day... for now. To check out other Double Chocolate Pudding Pie posts, visit CEiMB. Cheers!
late, more healthy than a normal chocolate pie, pudding pie. To see the complete recipe, please visit Tessa's blog. I've been looking forward to this recipe for the last week now. Anytime you have a homemade graham cracker crust with dark chocolate and it's all under 300 calories per slice - you can't go wrong. This pudding pi
e is also pretty firm. It held up to a knife and I'm sure it would hold up to a circular cookie cutter (for mini individual desserts). I read the reviews and noticed a lot of people thought the graham mixture wasn't enough. I decided to pat the crumb mixture (graham cracker, butter and water) into a springform cake pan. If I was making this for some sort of get together I would have re-plated onto a *pretty* platter, but let's be honest.. I wanted it all for myself.. and maybe the few people (other than the hu
bby) who got half a piece.. tee hee. I followed the recipe's exact measurements, but decided to decorate with whipped cream and strawberries, yum! I thought this added some bright, juicy red flavor and it definitely brightened up the dish. The one weird thing about the pie is the texture. I'm kind of a big texture person (probably why I didn't like cold pureed cucumber soup), but this pie was great. Thanks Tessa! The filling is a little jigglie though and reminded me of an old woman waving her arms yelling "Bingo!!"... not to be offensive 
to anyone, but it made me laugh. Back to the strawberries.. it was a nice balance to the dark chocolate. I plated and added some chocolate syrup swirlie things (I couldn't resist). So far I've done good keeping to one piece a day... for now. To check out other Double Chocolate Pudding Pie posts, visit CEiMB. Cheers!
Love the presentation! Good job and super idea regarding the use of a springform.
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ReplyDeleteOh that looks wonderful.
You bum.
"oh Jen, I was so close to bringing you a slice tonight. But I didn't"
I'll remember that! HA!!
I love you anways.
That pie looks good!! And tonight, when I have my first bite of mine, I will think of an old woman, waving her arms and yelling "BINGO!" :o)
ReplyDeleteGlad I could create a lasting memory! The 1/8th of a pie slice doesn't jiggle too much, but the 1/16th of a pie slice that I cut for my co-workers (because I couldn't give them two regular size slices..) jiggles like an old woman. Happy jiggling!!
ReplyDeleteAlyssa
I am going to have to steal the recipe and make it for Father's Day, Shawn loves chocolate!
ReplyDeleteYour pie looks beautiful! Definitely puts my sloppy mess to shame :) Great job!
ReplyDeleteGreat job decorating. It looks so pretty! I give you an A+ for chocolate swirly things. All I could muster was to sprinkle some graham cracker crumbs on top of my pudding.
ReplyDeleteSara/imafoodblog.com
That's a beautiful pie! Great decorating and I bet the strawberries were lovely with it!
ReplyDeleteStrawberries would've been great with this, good idea! I enjoy chocolate swirly things too:)
ReplyDeleteThis looks really good, the strawberries were a solid idea too.
ReplyDeleteI give you chocolate swirly things a B-. The fact that I didn't get to eat any of them curved your score down a least one full grade!
--Nick/imafoodblog.com
Mmm... the strawberries sound great with this!
ReplyDeleteYours looks so pretty! I read your comment on my blog the other day about the breakfast bars. I don't watch Ellie's show but I was excited to learn that she did bake them on it. I just stumbled on it while on food network and thought it would be good for my pick. I am happy that you are excited to make them.
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