Name: Chocolate Chess Pie
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Ingredients: 1 and ½ cups sugar; 3 and ½ Tablespoon s cocoa; 4 ounces evaporated milk; 2 large eggs (room temp and slightly beaten); ½ cup butter (melted (I don't recommend using margarine)); 1 teaspoons vanilla; 1 pie crust (refrigerated or homemade pie crust)

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Chocolate Chess Pie is a rich, fudgy Southern dessert recipe made of the most basic ingredients. Always a crowd-pleaser, this Chocolate Chess Pie has the tastes and texture of an undercooked brownie.

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Chocolate Chess Pie

The flavor is chocolate and sweet with a buttery, flaky crust. The filling is creamy, thick, and smooth.

This recipe is incredibly simple to make. It would be a great recipe for a child to help bake.

Sometimes, I like to turn the TV on the Food Network while I cook and pretend I’m a celebrity chef. Today for my guests 😉 I’m whipping up this Southern classic pie.

Basic ingredients…

Chess pies are made with basic ingredients that you probably already have on hand, eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla, and for my Chocolate Chess Pie, cocoa. There are all variations of chess pies now but the original was a vanilla pie. I have shared with you a Lemon Chess Pie and this chocolate version.

There is a lot of chocolate flavor packed into this buttery, flaky crust. You can make a homemade crust like my Never Fail Pie Crust or Coconut Oil Pie Crust. Both recipes are delicious and easy. (Click title for those recipes.) Or, you may use a store-bought pie crust as I did.

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Chocolate Chess Pie

Chocolate is added to the popular Southern dessert, making this pie a favorite at potlucks and dinners. Serve with a dollop of homemade whipped cream.

Author: Paula

4.43 from 7 votes

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Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Total Time: 55 minutes

Servings: 8 slices

Ingredients

1 and ½ cups sugar
3 and ½ Tablespoon s cocoa
4 ounces evaporated milk
2 large eggs room temp and slightly beaten
½ cup butter melted (I don't recommend using margarine)
1 teaspoons vanilla
1 pie crust refrigerated or homemade pie crust

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Form pie crust in a 9-inch pie pan.
With a whisk, mix sugar, cocoa, eggs, butter, and vanilla together until well combined. Whisk in milk. Pour into unbaked pie crust.
Bake in 350° oven for 45 minutes until the center of the pie is set.
Cool to room temperature. Serve at room temp or chilled in the refrigerator. Take it over the top with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream!

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Comments

Barbie says

04.09.22 at 1:36 pm

I have made this Chocolate Chess pie twice since seeing your recipe. My family loves it. It’s so creamy and smooth. Best chocolate chess pie I have ever made. Thanks for the recipe.

- Paula says
  
  04.10.22 at 2:31 pm
  
  Thanks so much!!
  
Chris says

09.12.17 at 6:29 am

If I cut back on the sugar, say 1/2 cup, will it change the texture or mess up the recipe? Would I need to put something in the place of the sugar to balance it out?

T Orr says

11.06.15 at 1:15 pm

Made this last night. Great pie!!

- Aldana says
  
  10.21.16 at 12:12 pm
  
  how could i replace the evaporated milk, cause in Argentina i cannot get it. thankss
  
Peggy says

02.27.15 at 1:42 pm

Do you have a recipe for plain “Chess Pie”? Or would it be the chocolate version minus the cocoa?

- Paula says
  
  02.27.15 at 1:47 pm
  
  HI Peggy. I don’t know if there’s a difference but this Buttermilk Pie recipe tastes just like a chess pie to me. This is the link for it: https://www.callmepmc.com/2012/04/pmcs-buttermilk-pie-call-me-pmc/
  
  - Geraldine Jackson says
    
    02.28.15 at 9:31 pm
    
    I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with the name of the pie. I have never made a Chess Pie, but all that I have eaten and all I have ever heard about ingredients in a chess pie, contain cornmeal. It sounds like a buttermilk pie but you use evaporated milk and the chocolate.
    
    - Petra says
      
      03.14.15 at 11:51 pm
      
      Geraldine is correct. A true chess pie calls for 1Tbsp cornmeal
      
joe says

02.25.15 at 9:33 am

much ink wasted printing 6 pages . how about printing recipe only. after seeing all those delicious and lovely pics. makes you crave. joe—thanks for recipe. am going to write it down

- Paula says
  
  02.25.15 at 9:50 am
  
  Joe, I’m so sorry, it should just print the recipe. I will check on it and try to fix that.
  
- Paula says
  
  02.25.15 at 10:09 am
  
  Hi Joe, I fixed the recipe so that it prints only… at least for me. If you get this will you check and let me know if it works for you? Thanks and again, I apologize for the trouble before.
  
Nicki GB says

12.09.12 at 8:22 pm

I have always wanted to make one of these! may have to try your recipe for my Christmas dinner! I'm Nicki from http://www.fiveoritethings.com
Would love for you to visit me!

Julie says

10.06.12 at 6:31 pm

I am inviting you to come and share this in my Show Your Stuff blog hop:
http://juliejewels1.blogspot.com/2012/10/show-your-stuff-44-seafood-mac-and.html

Savannah says

10.06.12 at 7:22 am

Thanks for sharing this lovely pie. It looks delicious. I am stopping by from Ladies Holiday.

CHOCOLATE CHESS PIE