Mint Chip Pie – Bake from Scratch

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C).
2. On a flippantly floured floor, roll Black Cocoa Pie Dough right into a 12-inch circle. Gently switch to a 9-inch pie plate, urgent into backside and up sides. Trim dough even with fringe of plate, if mandatory. Freeze till agency, about half-hour.
3. High Black Cocoa Pie Dough with a chunk of parchment paper, letting ends lengthen over edges of plate. Add pie weights.
4. Bake till edges look dry, 15 to twenty minutes. Rigorously take away parchment and weights. Bake till crust is totally dry, 5 to 7 minutes extra. Let cool utterly on a wire rack.
5. Within the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat chilly cream at medium-high velocity till comfortable peaks kind. Switch to medium bowl.
6. Clear bowl of stand mixer. Utilizing the paddle attachment, beat cream cheese at medium velocity till clean, about 2 minutes. Add confectioners’ sugar and salt, and beat at low velocity till clean, about 4 minutes, stopping to scrape sides of bowl midway by way of mixing. Utilizing a spatula, gently fold in whipped cream simply till mixed. Fold in peppermint extract and inexperienced meals coloring as desired. Fold in chopped chocolate. Pour into cooled ready crust, and utilizing a small offset spatula, clean prime. Refrigerate till filling is ready, 5 to six hours.
7. Place Sweetened Whipped Cream in a big pastry bag fitted with massive St. Honoré piping tip (Wilton No. 125). On outdoors fringe of filling, pipe a 11/2 -inch diagonal line going towards middle. Beginning on the midway level of piped line, pipe one other 1½ -inch diagonal line in other way, slight overlapping finish of earlier line. (It’s going to seem like an offset “V.”) Repeat sample round edges. Refrigerate till able to serve. Garnish with chocolate shavings, if desired.

Directions

1. Within the work bowl of a meals processor, place flour, sugar, black cocoa, and salt; pulse till mixed. Add chilly butter and egg, pulsing simply till mixed and combination holds collectively when pressed, 24 to pulses. End up dough onto a flippantly floured floor, and form right into a disk. Wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at the very least 1 hour.

Directions

1. Within the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat cream and sugar at medium-high velocity till medium-soft peaks kind, about 3 to five minutes. Use instantly or refrigerate till prepared to make use of. Greatest used similar day.