What type of chocolate pie was this I ate as a child?

[Anonymous]

I was a kid when I visited an elderly relative who made a chocolate pie. It wasn’t the no bake type of chocolate pies. It was baked chocolate but it was brownie texture but had some type of cream topping I believe. Maybe marshalllow cream?

I have never tasted anything as amazing as this was.

What type of pie does this sound like?

Every time I google chocolate pies it’s never exactly this. It was not dark chocolate but a sweet almost milk chocolate brownie taste and texture but in pie form!

[Anonymous]

Jell-O chocolate pudding pie?

[Anonymous]

Chocolate chess pie has a brownie-like texture, but not with the topping you described. My mother made chess pies so much when I was a kid (lemon chess and chocolate chess). I had no idea how good I had it when I was a kid...

Chess pies are staples in much of the South. Not sure about other parts of the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jell-O chocolate pudding pie?

Yes. Made with the cooked pudding, not instant. My dad loved it.

[Anonymous]

Maybe it was a pie of her own invention? Do you think her children might have preserved the recipe! I'm interested

I make mango cream and strawberry cream cakes for my kids' birthdays. It's cake on the bottom and cream on top (and sometimes a thin jelly coating as a topper, depends if I have the time). The "cream" layer is hand-whipped cream, flavored with either mango reduction or freeze-dried strawberry powder, and stabilized with gelatin so it doesn't separate. Cake and jelly are flavored with the same fruit too.

Now I'm thinking I might try with chocolate... yummy!

[Anonymous]

It could be regional. Can you tell us where she was from or where she lived?

[Anonymous]

The only other thing I can think of is chocolate meringue pie, but the topping always freaked me out as a kid, so I can't comment on the texture of the pie itself.

[Anonymous]

Fudge Brownie Pie?

My grandmother used to serve hers with Cool Whip, which my ex-husband looked down his nose at, so we tended to serve it with the more “sophisticated” whipped cream in an aerosol can. I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t top it with marshmallow cream instead.

Melt 1/2 c. butter and 3 squares (1 oz. each) chocolate in double boiler or microwave. Remove from heat. Stir in 1 c. sugar, 1/3 c. white Karo, 1/4 c unsifted flour, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1/4 tsp. salt.

Stir in 3 eggs slightly beaten. Pour into crust *, bake 30-35 min (or until filling is firm in center) at 350 degrees.

* My grandmother put 1/2 c - 1 c nuts in bottom of crust before pouring in chocolate filling and baking, but my family has always preferred it without the nuts, delicious either way.

[Anonymous]

Thanks PPs!!

Virginia - Henry County to be exact! She didn’t have children so it’s gone with her.. unless can come anywhere near to making it!

Saving this recipe!

I wonder if it was chess pie or brownie! I’ll look both up too!

[Anonymous]

Is it this?

https://www.southyourmouth.com/2012/02/chocolate-delight.html

My grandmother made something very similar to this, although I don't remember a cream cheese layer. My grandfather called it "the good stuff".

[Anonymous]

In the 1980s my brothers often made German chocolate cream pie.

[Anonymous]

Given she was from Henry County, VA, which is on the NC/VA border, I'm betting chess pie. I'm 15:31 and am from NC.

https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-chess-pie/

[Anonymous]

I didn’t think Chess pie was chocolate, it’s more of a custard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chocolate chess pie has a brownie-like texture, but not with the topping you described. My mother made chess pies so much when I was a kid (lemon chess and chocolate chess). I had no idea how good I had it when I was a kid...

Chess pies are staples in much of the South. Not sure about other parts of the US.

I am from the South and we had these regularly. So good!

[Anonymous]

Fudge pie