Recipe Mondays: French Silk Pie

**Chocolate lovers beware.  This dessert could be addicting!**

My husband's favorite dessert is French Silk Pie.  When he was at the Coast Guard Academy, every break he came home to visit (before we were married) I would make him this pie for dessert for one of the evenings he had dinner with my family.  I make it as a very special treat now that we are married, too!  It is SO good! :)  And it is really quite simple, as well, especially if you have a Bosch or some sort of food mixer...  A hand mixer will work fine, however!  Here is what you need to mix together!

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French Silk Pie
1 baked pie shell (I make my own, but you could purchase one if you wanted)

3/4 cup softened butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup pasteurized egg product

Whipped cream
Chocolate bars

• Step 1: Make sure the pie shell is baked and cooled.
• Step 2: Mix together butter and sugar until nice and fluffy.  
• Step 3: Melt chocolate chips (don't over-melt!) then mix into butter and sugar mixture
• Step 4: Add vanilla and slowly add egg product. Mix at high speed while continually scraping the sides of the bowl.  Continue doing this until the mixture is light and fluffy.
• Step 5: Spoon or pour the filing into the baked and cooled pie shell.
• Step 6: Top with whipped cream and, if you so desire, chocolate shavings or curls pulled off of the chocolate bars.  
• Step 7: Cover and chill for at least 5 hours (I usually let it go overnight).
• Step 8: Serve cold! It's delicious!