Chocolate Cream Pie

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas! We did here at Keeler Kai, there was Christmas Eve church Service, singing Carols of Praise, then Christmas Morning was spent doing one of my favorite things, well two actually cooking, and walking Maggie :-) We had fun walking and delivering home made goodies to our neighbors on the road. There sure was a lot of Christmas Love up here on the North Shore!! So much to be grateful for!!! One of my fond memories of childhood, was my Angel Grandmas chocolate Cream Pie, I have never tasted a pie as good as she could make until I tasted JoAnne's Chocolate Cream Pie. JoAnne works with us at the clinic in Bellingham, and I am blessed by not only having the best co-worker a girl could have, she is the sweetest soul. I am blessed to call her friend, and even more blessed that she shared her Chocolate Cream Pie recipe with me! So I will share it here with you all, after all chocolate is best shared with friends!!!

JoAnne's Chocolate Cream Pie!
3 egg yolks
3 tablespoons soft butter
4 oz chocolate broken up
1/4 cup flour
1/2 to 1/2 cup sugar (alter according to sweetness of your chocolate)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups milk
Pie Crust of your choice
. Place in a blender three egg yolks, three tablespoons of soft butter, 4 ounces of chocolate broken up, 1/4 cup of flour, 1/4 to 1/2 cup sugar( depending on the sweetness of the chocolate you use) one teaspoon of vanilla. Heat two cups of milk (make sure you have plenty of room to whisk in the pot later) until it steams a bit and then start the blender and remove the center of the top of the blender and slowly pour the milk in while the blender is running. Once everything is blended return to the pot you heated the milk in and stir with a spoon and whisk on medium heat until it thickens. You want it to be like a think milkshake so you can pour it into the precooked pie crust. As for the crust it is your choice to use either a nut crust or graham cracker or regular pie crust cooked. (as per JoAnne) " I am loving using part coconut in my crust as it makes it really flakey." Then put it in the fridge after it cools for a bit. It is best to make it the night before you plan to eat it. Then before you serve it put whipped cream on top and some chocolate flakes or curls. So yummy.
Thank you JoAnne for sharing!!!