A rich and creamy gluten-free chocolate pie in a gluten-free chocolate cookie crust. So dreamy! Confession: Prior to making this pie, I didn’t know I liked chocolate cream pie, but after eating 4 pieces today, I can attest that it is a favorite!! No really, I ate 4 slices of this pie in one day, as my waistline can attest. Thankfully, I made 3 pies in my attempt at getting the crust right, so there’s plenty of pie left to share with the family. Good thing too, because my boys tried a slice as an after-school snack today and immediately asked for seconds! Thumbs up all around! I created this amazing pie in partnership with my sponsor, Enjoy Life Foods. I really think you’re going to love this one! I mean look at that slice! I recently asked my friends on my personal Facebook page what their favorite pie was, excluding pumpkin pie and summer fruit pies. I was blown away by the variety of answers! So many that I’ve never tried since I haven’t been a huge pie fan, like coconut cream, banana cream, buttermilk pie, and Boston Cream pie. Over a dozen of my friends mentioned chocolate cream pie. I had to go look it up and see what exactly that was, but it sure sounded good! You all know I’m a total chocoholic, as you know if you’ve tried my flourless chocolate cookies and my gluten-free chocolate cake! After looking at some chocolate cream pies, I realized I’d had a sad version of this years ago, using a store bought pie crust, instant chocolate pudding and Cool Whip. YUCK! So that’s why it hadn’t been very memorable!! I started searching through recipes for real chocolate cream pies. I found that most people’s recipes were all variations of the same two recipes – one that includes raw eggs and whipped cream or half and half in the finished pie, and the other that is a cooked pudding made with whole milk. There were a few variations in types of chocolate used and such, but most of the good recipes boiled down to the same basic ingredients. I decided to adapt a highly acclaimed recipe from Gourmet magazine that many other people, including Pioneer Woman have used over the years. It was definitely a good choice to work off of for the pudding filling. Of course I had to put my own spin on it, because I’m not one to leave a recipe alone! Since I’m not a fan of the usual flour based pie crusts or of Oreo style pie crusts (even gluten-free versions), I wanted something different. What could be better for a chocolate pie than a chocolate crust? Earlier this year, I created a yummy dairy-free and gluten-free raspberry mousse pie. I figured I could just use that same crust for this pie, though this time including dairy in the crust since the pie was going to have a lot of dairy anyway. As an Enjoy Life Foods blogger, they’d recently sent me some products I could use for my posts. I tried using the gluten-free soft baked brownie cookies, but ended up with a too soft (but delicious) crust. So I went back to using their gluten-free double chocolate crunchy cookies for the gluten-free chocolate pie crust instead. Perfect. I’m so glad some of my local stores carry these all the time! I had to make an extra trip to get more after my recipe testing didn’t go smoothly! I wish I just had enough room at my house to add my own full room of shelves of my favorite products!! Wouldn’t that be fun? Please take note to have all of your pie pudding ingredients measured and ready to use before you start cooking. You don’t want to ruin the mixture because you had to stop and measure or weigh your chocolate! There’s your slice, and here’s the recipe so you can make your own pie to wow your friends and family!! If you like this gluten-free chocolate cream pie, then I think you need to try my gluten-free trifle next – it has some similar flavors and is so good! I’d love to hear what your favorite pie is and if there’s one you’d like me to work on a gluten-free version of! P.S. If you love this gf chocolate pie, would you come back and leave a 5 star rating for it? Thank you! A rich and creamy chocolate pie in a gluten-free chocolate cookie crust. So dreamy! *I tried refrigerating this both covered and uncovered with different pies. For covering, I used Cling Wrap and pushed it against the surface. This worked fine, but of course gives you a bit of a craggy surface once you remove the cling wrap. No big deal since you are going to cover with whipped cream. I also put in refrigerator uncovered, and that pie came out with small beads of moisture over the surface, again no big deal since I covered with whipped cream. I hope you and your family and friends enjoy this gf chocolate pie too! This sponsored post was created through my partnership with Enjoy Life Foods. As always, all opinions are my own. Collaborating with brands I love allows me to keep bringing you new and varied recipes! Thanks for your support!Notes on ingredients and substitutions for this gluten-free chocolate cream pie:
Gluten-free Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe:
Gluten-free Chocolate Cream Pie
Ingredients
Crust:
Chocolate Pie Pudding Filling:
Whipped topping:
Instructions
Crust:
Chocolate Pie Pudding Filling:
Whipped topping:
Notes
We stored leftover pieces uncovered in the refrigerator overnight.
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Yield: 8 slices
Prep Time
15 minutes
Cook Time
8 minutes
Additional Time
1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time
1 hour 53 minutes
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Friday 8th of November 2019
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Gayle
Thursday 8th of March 2018
Do you add the chocolate chips and morsels in as is or do they need to be melted? I hope to make this on Saturday. Thank you!
Michelle Palin ~ My Gluten-free Kitchen
Saturday 10th of March 2018
You add them just like they are out of the bag. The mixture is hot that you are adding them to, so they'll quickly melt! Enjoy!!
Gwen
Thursday 30th of November 2017
Do you think this pie would work substituting the milk and whipping cream with canned coconut milk and coconut cream? It looks delicious and I'd like to make it for a holiday party I'm going to tomorrow, but I need it to be dairy free, and I love coconut and chocolate together. I would put coconut milk in place of the whole milk, and coconut cream to make the whip cream out of for the topping. I would also make your chocolate cookie crust the way you did in your raspberry mouse pie with coconut oil instead of butter. Thanks!!!
Joie Lovette Meador
Thursday 22nd of November 2018
Did you try this Dairy free? Did it work? I am looking at other recipes but this one looks the best and I am also dairy free!!! Would love to try it.
Michelle Palin ~ My Gluten-free Kitchen
Saturday 10th of March 2018
So sorry I'm just now seeing this comment. Please do let me know if you tried this!
Kathy Emerson
Monday 20th of November 2017
Could I use Baker's semi sweet chocolate instead of the Enjoy Life semi sweet chuncks (can't find them in nearby stores)?
Michelle Palin ~ My Gluten-free Kitchen
Tuesday 21st of November 2017
Yes you sure can! Baker's semi-sweet chocolate is another good choice. They aren't certified gluten-free but they do not contain gluten. I use that brand sometimes too!
Shannon
Saturday 19th of August 2017
I would like to know if you have a recipe for a gluten free sugar cream pie.
Michelle Palin ~ My Gluten-free Kitchen
Tuesday 21st of November 2017
Shannon, I've never heard of sugar cream pie! If you have a recipe for it that you enjoyed before, that just needs adapted to gluten-free, feel free to email it to me and I'll take a look at it and see what I can do!