This is just awesome. First I made simple vanilla cheesecake with a flaky chocolate crust. Who does that? I do. I used my favorite pie dough recipe except used a quarter cup cocoa powder in the recipe. It produced a rich chocolatey flaky crust that I plan on using more often. Then I made cheesecake , the same cheesecake recipe I used in that berry cheesecake pie. And then that was it, I felt guilty all ready. I figured I would top with sprinkles. I showed my sweetie. And then he said….
“‘I want more chocolate… and it doesn’t look sweet enough.”
Hold on a second. More chocolate? It doesn’t look sweet enough? He was asking for it. I pulled out the candy bar stash, which included Rolos, M&Ms, a Crunch Bar, a Hersheys Bar, and a pack of Reeces.
(I am in no way ashamed at the amount of candy I have on hand on a daily basis.)
The boring cheesecake above.
The eye catching, man loving, decadent, calorie filled, chocolate, candy bar cheesecake below.
Candy Bar Cheesecake
yield: one pie
Chocolate Pie Dough, recipe below
8 oz Cream Cheese
1/2 cup Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
2 eggs
Chocolate Candy and Candy Bars, chopped up
preheat oven to 350 degrees
1. Press pie dough into a 9 inch pie pan. Press dough up the side of the pie pan, and use your finger to press indentions to create a border. Place unbaked pie crust in the fridge.
2. Place the cream cheese and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until creamy and fluffy. Add vanilla. With mixer (or hand mixer) on low speed, add eggs one at a time fully incorporating before adding the second egg.
3. Remove crust from the fridge and pour cheesecake batter into crust. Bake for 25- 30 minutes until firm and set in the center, and the crust is lightly tanned. Let cheesecake pie cool completely.
4. After pie is almost cooled all the way, top with the chocolate candy. Best enjoyed that day at room temperature. If you place in the fridge let sit at room temperature around 30 minutes before enjoying.
Chocolate Pie Dough
yield: 2 single crusted pies
1/3 cup Milk
2/3 cup Vegetable Oil
2 cup Flour
1/4 cup Cocoa Powder
1 tsp Salt
1. Measure the milk and vegetable and combine.
2. In a large bowl add the flour, cocoa powder and salt. Pour the wet mixture over the dry and mix with a large wooden spoon until you can form into a ball with your hands.
3. Use this pie dough for any sweet pie. Simply press in the pie pan rather than having to roll and crimp the edges with your thumb and forefinger.
Candy heaven.
What are your favorite chocolate candy and candy bars? I love me a plain ol’ Hershey’s bar any day. However I threw the candy on my pie a bit too quickly as it was still cooling and it melted ever so slightly. Have you ever had a slightly melted Rolo on a cheesecake pie with a flaky chocolate crust?
You aren’t living until you have.
Needless to say, I delivered on Kyle’s ‘more chocolate and sweeter‘ request. We all win!
