Recipe: Chocolate pie with chocolate truffles

Recipe :

Pie :

1- Melt down the chocolate into a bain-marie, add the sugar and the yolks of the eggs, blend carefully to make it frothy and, thereafter add the flour and the whites of the eggs stiffly beaten ; add gently with a wooden spatula and pour the melted butter afterwards.

2- Pre-heat the oven at 356°F

3/ Pour the dough into a round non sticking mould and cook during 35 minutes (test the cooking with the blade of a sharp knife that needs to be dry and wait during 15 minutes after the mould and its cake have been taken out of the oven to de-mould it and let it cool down

Truffles :

3- Make the cream boiling, then pour it boiling onto the chocolate you have cut into small pieces (to let it melt) and make the mixture be uniform using a whip (the mixture is now a “ganache”)

4- Pour a little bit of the ganache onto the pie to make a thin layer, using a metal spatula

5- When the ganache is cold, make numerous bowls of it (truffles) so that you have enough of them to cover the pie

6- Roll the truffles into bitter cocoa powder and put them onto the pie.

Serve this pie with a vanilla or caramel custard or an orange water sorbet