Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie Recipe (2024)

Are you looking for a delicious dessert recipe for an upcoming gathering that will wow the crowd? This Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie Recipe will leave everyone asking for more!

Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie

I come from a huge family. My grandparents had seven children and thirty-three grandchildren. Every year, right before New Year’s Eve, we would all get together at my grandparent’s house and celebrate the holidays together. Everyone brought their favorite few dishes and we had a feast!

As a young child, my favorite part of this whole get together was the dessert. There were always 10+ different types of pies, piles of cookies, sheets of cake, and it was all soo good. I remember one of my aunts made an old fashioned chocolate pie, every year. It had a creamy and rich filling, with a crumbly and buttery homemade crust. If you wanted a piece of that pie,you had to be one of the first in line because it went quick!

Now that I have a daughter, we are starting our own holiday celebrations. Baking is a perfect way to bond with a child and it teaches the basics in the kitchen that they’ll need to know when they are older. I decided to start a tradition of baking my aunt’s old fashioned chocolate pie with my daughter this year. She was a huge fan of both the cooking process and especially eating the pie!

Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie Recipe

Ingredients:

Crust

• 1 cup flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1/4 pound butter
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 tbsp water

Chocolate Filling

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/3 cupunsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/8 cup flour
• a pinch of salt
• 1 cup evaporated milk
• 1 cup sweetened condensed milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

For the Crust:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a pie plate. In a medium-sized bowl, mix togetherflour, salt, and sugar. Cut butter into small pieces and add to the flour mixture. Cut butter pieces into the flour until the mixture is in pea-size pieces. In a small bowl, combine egg yolk and water. Add egg mixture to the flour mixture, combine and form into a cohesive ball. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.

Remove from the refrigerator and turn out dough onto a clean and floured surface. Use a rolling pin or a sturdy glass to roll the dough into a circle with 1/8″ thickness. Gently transfer pie crust to the pie plate, and press into the plate.

To bake: lay a piece of parchment paper onto the center of the pie crust. Use pie weights or dry beans to hold the parchment paper down. Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until edges are starting to brown. Remove from oven and allow to cool.

For the Filling:

In a large saucepan, combine sugar, cocoa powder, flour, and salt. Add in evaporated milk and condensed milk and bring to a gentle boil over medium heat, stirring frequently. Continue to boil an extra 2 – 3 minutes, stirring frequently, then remove from heat. Add in vanilla extract and stir.

Pour filling into pie crust, and refrigerate for 2 – 3 hours, until the filling is set.

–When you’re ready to serve your old fashioned chocolate pie, you can top it with Homemade Whipped Cream and chocolate shavings!

Need to print this to add to yourRecipe Binder? Get the Homemade Chocolate Pie recipe below:

If you like this old fashioned chocolate cream pie, you might also enjoy these recipes:

Recipe for Banana Cream Pie
Oatmeal Cream Pie Recipe
Canned Apple Pie Filling Desserts
How To Make Peanut Butter Pie
Pumpkin Pie in a Jar

Don’t forget to try this savory and delicious Chicken Pot Pie!

What’s your favorite dessert to make for gatherings?
Will you be taking this Chocolate Pie to the next get together?

This post on Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie Recipe was originally published on Little House Living in November 2014. It has been updated as of November 2019.