Chocolate Meringue Pie, an easy recipe with a delicious chocolate filling and topped with meringue. What a beautiful sight to behold! Here, we have a delicious twist on the classic Lemon Meringue Pie, and for chocolate lovers, this is a dream dessert!

Chocolate Meringue Pie, an easy recipe with a delicious chocolate filling and topped with meringue. 

Sally has kindly shared her recipe for Chocolate Meringue Pie and aren't we glad! This is a wonderful dessert, great served at a party or occasion where you want to 'wow' your guests.

It's easy to make but when you look at this show stopper dessert, everyone will think you spent hours in the kitchen making it!

This chocolate meringue pie is made from scratch with the exception of the pie shell.

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If you would like to make your own pastry, we have a lovely easy recipe for our shortcrust pastry here. It will give you a nice crisp base with a buttery taste. It's very delicious! The pastry only takes minutes to make and you will need to 'bake blind' or pre-cook.

This chocolate meringue pie is one of our popular pie recipes for the Thanksgiving celebrations. It certainly is a lovely recipe and it goes fast so you may need to make two!

Let's see how we can get this chocolate meringue pie on our tables! Please enjoy!

Recipe by Sally Hall

Ingredients

One 9 inch Deep Dish Baked Pie Shell

The Filling

½ cup Sugar
¼ cup Cornstarch
2 oz Unsweetened chocolate
4 ½ oz Semi-sweet chocolate
½ teaspoon Salt
2 ½ cups Milk
3 slightly beaten Egg yolks (3 & NOT 4)
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

The Meringue

4 Egg whites (½ cup) at room temperature
¼ teaspoon Cream of tartar
½ cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Using a frozen prepared deep dish pie shell, thaw & bake as directed on instructions.

Usually, bake for about 7 minutes after pricking entire pie crust with a fork. You can also use the refrigerated pie shells and use your own pie pan. Bake as directed, let cool and set aside.

Make Filling

2.In a medium saucepan, on very low heat, melt chocolate squares. With a wire whisk add sugar, cornstarch and salt.

Mix well then gradually stir in milk, mixing until smooth. Over medium-high heat, bring to boiling, stirring occasionally; boil exactly for 1 minute then remove from heat.

You can use a bowl over hot water in a pan or if using directly in a pan, add half the milk , all the sugar, cornstarch and salt, heat gently, then add the chocolate and stir until melted.

Chocolate Meringue Pie, how to melt chocolate

3. Stir a small amount of hot milk mixture into beaten egg yolks, mixing well. (about a teaspoon to start then gradually add about 1 cup of chocolate mixture into the eggs.)

4. Return this back to mixture left in the saucepan. Put the saucepan back on the heated eye and bring back to boiling; stirring pretty much constantly. Again boil for exactly 1 minute. Remove from heat.

5. Stir in vanilla extract and pour immediately into cooled pie shell.

Make Meringue

6. Preheat oven to 375º

7. In a medium bowl, beat egg whites & cream of tartar until soft peaks form when beater is raised.

8. Gradually beat in sugar in small amounts, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla and continue beating until stiff peaks form when beater is raised.

9. Spread meringue over warm filling, sealing to edge of crust. Place pie on a cookie sheet.

10. Bake 10-12 minutes or until meringue is golden brown.

11. Cool and let the pie set for about 2 hours before serving, refrigerate any leftover pie.

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Chocolate Meringue Pie. Easy to make and looks fabulous!

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Chocolate Meringue Pie, an easy recipe with a delicious chocolate filling and topped with meringue. 

Chocolate Meringue Pie

Yield: 8
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
Total Time: 32 minutes

Chocolate Meringue Pie, an easy recipe with a delicious chocolate filling and topped with meringue.

Ingredients

  • inch One 9 Deep Dish Baked Pie Shell

The Filling:

  • ½ cup Sugar
  • ¼ cup Cornstarch
  • 2 oz square Uunsweetened chocolate
  • 4.5 oz squares Semi sweet chocolate
  • ½ teaspoon Salt
  • 2 ½ cups Milk
  • 3 slightly beaten Egg yolks
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

The Meringue:

  • 4 Egg whites at room temperature, or ½ cup
  • ¼ teaspoon Cream of tartar
  • ½ cup Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Using a frozen prepared deep dish pie shell, thaw & bake as directed on instructions. Usually bake for about 7 minutes after pricking entire pie crust with a fork. You can also use the refrigerated pie shells and use your own pie pan. Bake as directed, let cool and set aside.

Make Filling:

  1. In a medium saucepan, on very low heat, melt chocolate squares. With a wire whisk add sugar, cornstarch and salt. Mix well then gradually stir in milk, mixing until smooth. Over medium-high heat, bring to boiling, stirring occasionally; boil exactly for 1 minute then remove from heat. You can use a bowl over hot water in a pan or if using directly in a pan, add half the milk , all the sugar, cornstarch and salt, heat gently, then add the chocolate and stir until melted.
  2. Stir small amount of hot milk mixture into beaten egg yolks, mixing well. (about a teaspoon to start then gradually add about 1 cup of chocolate mixture into the eggs.)
  3. Return this back to mixture left in saucepan. Put saucepan back on the heated eye and bring back to boiling; stirring pretty much constantly. Again boil for exactly 1 minute. Remove from heat.
  4. Stir in vanilla extract and pour immediately into cooled pie shell.

Make Meringue:

  1. Preheat oven to 375º
  2. In a medium bowl, beat egg whites & cream of tartar until soft peaks form when beater is raised.
  3. Gradually beat in sugar in small amounts, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla and continue beating until stiff peaks form when beater is raised.
  4. Spread meringue over warm filling, sealing to edge of crust. Place pie on a cookie sheet.
  5. Bake 10-12 minutes or until meringue is golden brown.
  6. Cool and let pie set for about 2 hours before serving, refrigerate any left over pie.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 8 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 409Total Fat: 12gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 77mgSodium: 412mgCarbohydrates: 57gFiber: 2gSugar: 45gProtein: 19g

Nutrition information isn’t always accurate

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  1. I made this last year and didn’t even catch this but on the meringue recipe, it should say 4 egg whites not 4 cups of egg whites, right?

    1. Hi Samantha, Thanks for brining this to our attention. For some reason, the ingredients transferred a little wonky on to the recipe card. The ingredients in the post itself is correct, so I have updated the card to remove the strange coding so it reads 4 egg whites or 1/2 cup. Thanks once again for letting us know so we can fix it asap!

  2. Made your pie. I didn’t have any dark chocolate bars so I used 2 oz semi sweet chocolate & 4.5 oz of milk chocolate. Just took pie from oven. & waiting 2 hr to cut. The