Chocolate Pie

Everyday my mother picks my son up from school, because I am at work. She takes him at her home which, coincidentally, is next to ours; she feeds him and put him to sleep for an hour. I come back at home at 5.00 p.m. and I take it from there. So, everyday as they return home from school, my son always wants to buy a sweet for dessert after lunch. My mother, who cannot really say no to him, buys him from the local bakery whatever he wants.

When he told me that, I thought that instead of buying something with ambiguous ingredients, it would be better, if I made something for him. I asked him what is his favorite dessert and he told me the chocolate pie. I searched my recipes and books and I decided to follow the recipe of Stelios Parliaros.

As I have mentioned before, he is a famous Greek pastry Chef and his recipes never fail me. As you know pastry art needs accuracy and is not as easy as cooking. If the ingredients are not correct, then you will end up with a failure dessert. That is the reason why, it is very important to follow recipes from Chefs you trust and you know that they are very accurate as to the ingredients they use and the times of baking. Stelios Parliaros is one of them. At this point I must apologize for the picture, this chocolate pie tastes better than it looks. It is easy, tasty and more importantly, it can be made with ingredients that anyone has in his closet.

We melt the chocolate and the butter in Bain Marie or in the microwave. In a mixer we mix the eggs and sugar until they become white and fluffy. We then incorporate the melted chocolate. We add the flour and the cocoa shifted and the zest or the cognac. We take a spring form 20 cm. and we butter it and flour it. We throw the batter and we bake in a preheated oven at 200-210° for 15 to 20 minutes. Take it out of the oven and let it stand until it becomes cold. Unmold and serve. Be careful because it may be a little bit watery in the center. You can serve it with vanilla ice cream or cold heavy cream.