Chocolate Mascarpone Pie With Mocha Sauce Recipe 485

Steps:

• Make the crust: Pulse the flour, cocoa powder, granulated sugar and salt in a food processor to combine. Add the shortening and pulse until the mixture looks like cornmeal. Add the butter and pulse a few times until it is in pea-size pieces. Add the ice water and vodka and pulse until the dough starts coming together but is still crumbly. Turn out onto a piece of plastic wrap and pat into a disk, using the plastic wrap to help you. Wrap and refrigerate until very firm, at least 1 hour and up to 24 hours.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Roll out the dough into a 12-inch round on a lightly floured surface. Ease into a 9-inch pie plate. Fold the overhanging dough under itself and crimp the edge with your fingers. Refrigerate until firm, at least 30 minutes. Line the crust with foil and fill with dried beans or pie weights. Bake until the edge is dry, about 20 minutes. Remove the foil and beans and continue baking until dry all over, 15 to 20 more minutes. Transfer to a rack and let cool completely.
• Meanwhile, make the filling. Put the chocolate in a medium heatproof bowl. Combine 3/4 cup heavy cream and the butter in a small saucepan; bring to a boil, then immediately pour over the chocolate. Add the vanilla and salt (do not stir), cover with plastic wrap and let stand 5 minutes. Whisk until melted and smooth. (If there are pieces of unmelted chocolate, microwave in 15-second intervals until smooth.) Set aside to cool.
• Beat the remaining 1 3/4 cups heavy cream and the confectioners' sugar in a large bowl with a mixer on medium speed until stiff peaks form, about 4 minutes. Gently fold the whipped cream into the chocolate mixture in three batches (do not overmix; the filling should be light and airy). Transfer to the cooled pie crust and smooth the top. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, at least 2 hours.
• Remove the pie from the refrigerator 15 minutes before serving. Make the topping: Beat the heavy cream and confectioners' sugar in a large bowl with a mixer on medium speed until soft peaks form, about 3 minutes. Stir the chocolate syrup and espresso powder in a small bowl until dissolved. Fold about 2 tablespoons of the chocolate syrup mixture into the whipped cream, then spread on the pie. Drizzle with the remaining syrup mixture; sprinkle with the espresso beans.

Steps:

• Crust: Preheat oven to 325° F. In a food processor, pulse cookies and cinnamon until cookies are a fine crumb. Place crumbs into a mixing bowl, add butter and mix until well-incorporated. Add milk and continue to mix until the crumbs clump together. Press crumbs into a pie pan, working up the sides and across the bottom until the pan is covered and thickness is unform. Reefrigerate 10 minutes. Bake crust for 6 minutes at 325° F. Let cool on a wire rack and refrigerate 10 minutes before filling. OR TAKE THE EASY WAY - buy the crust already done. Filling: Dissolve the instant coffee in the hot water and set aside. In a medium mixing bowl, stir the mascarpone (and cream cheese if used) to soften. Add the coffee, melted chocolate and vanilla and stir gently until evenly blended. Keep at room temperature while making the whipped cream. Beat the cream with an electric mixer until it holds soft peaks. Add confectioners' sugar and continue to beat until stiff peaks form. Gently fold 1/3 of the whipped cream into the chocolate-cheese mixture, then spoon into the crust. Top with remaining whipped cream. Refrigerate for at least one hour or overnight before serving. Sauce: Bring cream, coffee and butter to a simmer in a medium saucepan. Remove from heat and add chocolate chips and let the mixture sit 2 minutes. Add corn syrup and vanilla and whisk until smooth. The sauce will thicken as it cools and is best served slightly warm.

Steps:

• For the crust, heat oven to 350 degrees F. You'll need a 9 inch pie plate.
• Pulse cookies in food processor until fine crumbs; add butter and process until blended. Press mixture evenly into bottom and sides of pie plate. Bake 12 minutes; cool on wire rack. Spread marmalade over the cooled cookie crust.
• For the filling, microwave chocolate in glass bowl in short bursts, 15 seconds at a time, stirring until melted.
• Gently mix mascarpone, sugar, liqueur and salt in large bowl just until blended (do not stir too much or mixture will curdle). Fold in melted chocolate until no white streaks remain.
• If desired, put ½ cup chocolate mixture in a small zip top freezer bag and snip off a tiny corner; reserve for garnish. Spread remaining chocolate mixture in cookie crust. Chill at least 2 hours until firm. To garnish, squeeze zip top bag (like a pastry bag) to produce small chocolate peaks around perimeter.