Chocolate Pie Recipe

Traditionally, chocolate pie recipe is made with sugar, cornstarch, whole milk, egg yolks, butter, vanilla essence and bittersweet chocolate. But in order to skip adding eggs and making it completely vegetarian, you can follow this easy Cadbury chocolate pie recipe made with the simplest ingredients. All you’ll need to make Cadbury chocolate pie is refined flour, milk, butter, salt, Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bars, whipped cream, Cadbury cocoa powder, cream cheese and powdered sugar.

The four basic ingredients in chocolate pie recipe include chocolate, full-fat milk, sugar and flour. Chocolate, as the name says, is the main ingredient with the highest fraction. Milk brings richness and creaminess and can be whipped to make whipped cream. Sugar adds sweetness and lastly, flour dough is used to make the foundational crust to hold up the ingredients and serve as a vessel.

To make the filling for easy Cadbury chocolate pie without egg, you need to mix cream cheese, powdered sugar and Cadbury Cocoa Powder together and blend it smoothly with your hands until it's well combined. Then add melted Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate to the mixture along with whipped cream and fold it gently until well combined. The filling is ready to be poured into the baked crust and set in the fridge.

Yes, you can make a chocolate pie recipe with condensed milk. For that, you’ll need to combine the melted chocolate in sweetened condensed milk and add vanilla essence for flavour. After straining to a smooth consistency, pour this mixture into the flour dough crust and set it in the fridge for 2-3 hours. Optionally, you can add toppings like nuts and berries to add to the appearance.

Milk is one of the main ingredients of chocolate pie for various reasons. The creaminess, consistency, thickness and moisture are all affected by the use of milk in chocolate pies. The silkiness and texture of milk contribute to the creaminess, and fats in the milk affect the consistency. When mixed with cornstarch or gelatin, milk brings the iconic thickness to the chocolate pie and the amount of milk you add affects the moisture of the filling which keeps it from being dry, crumbly or runny. The texture you can get from milk is hard to achieve from its substitutes.