Black Forest Pie

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 package pillsbury all ready pie crust (or make your own if you're good at pie crust!)
• 1 teaspoon flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1/4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine
• 1/3 cup milk
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 (21 ounce) can cherry pie filling
• 1 (9 ounce) container cool whip or 1 (9 ounce) container similar whipped topping, thawed
• 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate, coarsely grated

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 prepare pie crust according to package directions for filled 1-crust pie, using 1 tsp flour.
• 3 in a saucepan combine sugar, cocoa and 2 tbs flour, then add butter and milk.
• 4 cook until mixture begins to boil, stirring constantly; remove from heat.
• 5 add a small amount of the hot mixture to the eggs and then return the mixture to the pan.
• 6 fold half the can of pie filling into the mixture in the pan.
• 7 pour into the crust.
• 8 bake 35-45 minutes or until center is set but still shiny.
• 9 cool and then chill at least one hour.
• 10 combine 2 cups of cool whip with the grated chocolate and spread over the cooled pie.
• 11 top with the remaining pie filling and then the remaining cool whip.
• 12 chill 1/2 hour.