How to Make Chocolate Mud Pie
Serves: 6-8
Preparation time: overnight
Cooking time: 10 mins
Ingredients needed to make Chocolate Mud Pie:
For the filling:
- 7 oz dark chocolate, broken into small chunks
- 7 oz marshmallows
- 20 fl oz double cream
- 3 ½ oz strong coffee, cooled
- 4 tbsp milk
- 3 tbsp dark rum
For the biscuit base:
- 2 ½ oz butter
- 7 oz digestive biscuits
Cooking instructions for Chocolate Mud Pie:
- Lightly oil a 10’’ flan tin and set aside.
- To make the base, stuff the biscuits into a resealable plastic bag and crumble them into finer bits with a rolling pin.
- Add a knob of butter into a skillet and heat it over slow flame until it melts.
- Remove the skillet from heat and stir in the crushed biscuits.
- Toss further until they are coated well with the crushed biscuits.
- Transfer the mixture to the greased flan tin and spread them into a single layer.
- Press them down and even the surface with a spatula; set aside to cool.
- To make filling, add the chocolate chunks to a heatproof bowl and place it on a larger vessel, filled with warm water.
- Place the total arrangement over gas oven and heat it until the chocolate melts.
- Add a swill of coffee, followed by rum and whisk them to form a glossy mixture.
- Whisk the cream in a separate bowl, until it forms soft yet firm peaks.
- Pour milk another saucepan and drop in the marshmallows.
- Heat it over slow flame while stirring constantly until the marshmallows melts and turns the mixture into a gooey stuff.
- Remove from heat and set aside to cool to some extent.
- Pour the chocolate mixture into the above mixture, in a continuous stream, while folding it into the same after every addition.
- Whisk in the whipped cream with the help of a balloon whisk until they form a smooth mixture, free of lumps.
- Pour the filling over the biscuit base and smooth it out with a spatula.
- Leave it in the refrigerator for about 8 hours or until it sets.
- Remove the mud pie from the flan tin and carve out large slices.
- Serve each slice on a serving plate and smother them with chocolate sauce.
- Serve chilled and enjoy!
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