Chocolate Mascarpone Pie With Mocha Sauce Recipe 485

Steps:

• Crust preparation:
• Pulverize cookies in food processor until fine crumbs. Add almonds, salt and butter. Press into 9-inch pie plate. Put in freezer for about 10 minutes to set.
• Mocha filling preparation:
• Beat mascarpone cheese and sugar together with mixer. In microwave heat half the heavy cream. Mix in espresso until dissolved. Add the espresso mixture and rest of heavy cream to cheese mixture. Melt baking chocolate in microwave. Stir into cheese/espresso mixture with spatula until just incorporated. Fold in whipped heavy cream. Pour into frozen/cold pie shell. Freeze for at least 20 minutes.
• Ganache preparation:
• Bring heavy cream to low simmer with rose petals; remove from heat and let steep for 10 minutes; strain out rose petals. Pour heavy cream over chocolate chips in small bowl
• Stir until melted and glossy. Set aside to cool. When pie is frozen enough pour ganache evenly over top and smooth with spoon. Refrigerate until ready to garnish.
• Whipped topping and garnish:
• Beat cream, sugar, almond extract until semi-stiff peaks. Top pie with whipped topping (piped) and garnish with sliced almonds and rose petals.

Steps:

• Crust: Preheat oven to 325° F. In a food processor, pulse cookies and cinnamon until cookies are a fine crumb. Place crumbs into a mixing bowl, add butter and mix until well-incorporated. Add milk and continue to mix until the crumbs clump together. Press crumbs into a pie pan, working up the sides and across the bottom until the pan is covered and thickness is unform. Reefrigerate 10 minutes. Bake crust for 6 minutes at 325° F. Let cool on a wire rack and refrigerate 10 minutes before filling. OR TAKE THE EASY WAY - buy the crust already done. Filling: Dissolve the instant coffee in the hot water and set aside. In a medium mixing bowl, stir the mascarpone (and cream cheese if used) to soften. Add the coffee, melted chocolate and vanilla and stir gently until evenly blended. Keep at room temperature while making the whipped cream. Beat the cream with an electric mixer until it holds soft peaks. Add confectioners' sugar and continue to beat until stiff peaks form. Gently fold 1/3 of the whipped cream into the chocolate-cheese mixture, then spoon into the crust. Top with remaining whipped cream. Refrigerate for at least one hour or overnight before serving. Sauce: Bring cream, coffee and butter to a simmer in a medium saucepan. Remove from heat and add chocolate chips and let the mixture sit 2 minutes. Add corn syrup and vanilla and whisk until smooth. The sauce will thicken as it cools and is best served slightly warm.

Steps:

• For the crust, heat oven to 350 degrees F. You'll need a 9 inch pie plate.
• Pulse cookies in food processor until fine crumbs; add butter and process until blended. Press mixture evenly into bottom and sides of pie plate. Bake 12 minutes; cool on wire rack. Spread marmalade over the cooled cookie crust.
• For the filling, microwave chocolate in glass bowl in short bursts, 15 seconds at a time, stirring until melted.
• Gently mix mascarpone, sugar, liqueur and salt in large bowl just until blended (do not stir too much or mixture will curdle). Fold in melted chocolate until no white streaks remain.
• If desired, put ½ cup chocolate mixture in a small zip top freezer bag and snip off a tiny corner; reserve for garnish. Spread remaining chocolate mixture in cookie crust. Chill at least 2 hours until firm. To garnish, squeeze zip top bag (like a pastry bag) to produce small chocolate peaks around perimeter.