Mini Chocolate Pudding Pies Recipe
mini chocolate pudding pies
Chocolate lovers unite - this tasty recipe is going to make all your chocolate dreams come true. There's nothing tiny about these amazingly Mini (4-inches each) Chocolate Pudding Pies - a chocolaty Oreo crust is topped with a smooth and creamy milk chocolate pudding and finished with an amazingly fluffy marshmallow-like meringue. Yes, this decadent dessert is every chocoholics kryptonite.
mini chocolate pudding pies
12 mini pies
ingredients
Oreo Crust- 3 cups Oreo cookie crumbs
- ½ cup butter, melted
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup cocoa powder, sifted
- ¼ cup cornstarch
- ¼ tsp kosher salt
- 2½ cups whole milk
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ½ cup chopped milk chocolate
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 egg whites
- 1 cup sugar
- ¼ tsp cream of tartar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
directions
- For the Oreo crust, preheat oven to 350ºF. Mix cookie crumbs and melted butter together in a medium bowl. Use your fingers to press the crust into the bottom of 12 (4-inch) tartlet pans. Bake 6-8 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool before filling.
- For the milk chocolate pudding, in a medium saucepan, whisk together sugar, cocoa powder, cornstarch and salt. Place over medium heat and gradually whisk in milk and cream. Bring to a boil and cook while continuously stirring for about 2 minutes, until mixture thickens. Remove from heat and add milk chocolate and vanilla extract, stirring until smooth. Pour filling into cooled shells and refrigerate for 2 hours with surface of pudding covered with plastic wrap to prevent pudding skin. Just before serving, top with meringue.
- For the meringue, place egg whites, sugar and cream of tartar in the bowl of an electric mixer. Constantly whisk egg white mixture over a saucepan with simmering water for 3-4 minutes. Transfer bowl to electric mixer and using the whisk attachment, gradually increase speed to high until stiff glossy peaks form. Fold in vanilla. Immediately spread over tarts and using a kitchen torch, lightly brown tops.
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