Chocolate Chestnut Pies.
31January 8, 2013 by alexanderwillowharvey
This Recipe makes two big pies or one big and four mini, not a pastry fan? Just pour the filling into little pots or tea cups and let set in the fridge.
Ingredients:
For the pie crust (half if only want one pie crust):
2 1/2 cup plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
4 tbsp caster sugar
1 cup chilled vegan margarine
1/2 cup soy milk
For the filling:
200g quality dark chocolate, broke into little pieces
1 1/2 cups of chestnut puree, from can
1 tin full fat coconut milk
1 tin coconut cream (about 1/4 cup)
1 tbsp cocoa powder
2 tsp cornflour
Method:
For the pie crust, mix the flour, baking powder and sugar in a bowl with a fork, then rub in the chilled margarine until the mix resembles breadcrumbs. Now slowly add the soy milk and mix gently until it comes together as a dough. Allow the pastry to sit for a little while covered on the side. Put the oven on to preheat to 170c/340f, separate your pastry into two halves, roll out the pastry on a floured surface, so that its 1’1/2″inches wider than your pie dish, grease the pie dish, and gently press the pastry into the dish. Trim off the excess with a knife. Blind bake for 10 minutes, then bake for a further 5 minutes exposed. take out of the oven and allow to cool on a cooling rack. To make the filling, heat the chestnut puree, coconut milk, coconut cream cocoa powder and cornflour on a medium heat in a saucepan and whisk together until well combined, Turn off the heat and whisk in the chocolate until it melts and is well mixed. Poor the mix into a cold bowl, I pop my bowl in the fridge for a while for this, and allow the mix to cool to room temperature before pouring into the pastry cases and popping them all in the fridge to cool and set completely, at least an hour.
Yum! What a fabulous looking bake! =D
I feel a bacchanalian dessert for 1 coming up! I might even have to hide the remainder (once I have reached bursting point) to revisit what I can only imagine is going to be my complete, instant and utter addiction to these gorgeous little babies! How do you do it every single time? I swear I am the closet part of your Dorian Grey experiment
They look really delicious + they are so cute! Thanks for sharing the recipe I will most definitely try these!
Let me know how they go if you make them.
Oh, I will!
jeeez, that is ridiculously good looking.
oh that looks soooooo good!!
Can we say Gorgeous??? I can’t wait to try this recipe! I will be making this, this weekend! Thank you for sharing
This looks delicious! Can’t wait to try it out,maybe this weekend.
Yum! Going to try making these this weekend. Was just looking at this can of chestnut, wondering what to make with it…
I was originally gonna make a Italian chocolate chestnut cake but made this instead. Its always handy to have a tin of chestnut purree around for when you need to make a dessert to impress!
wow these are beautiful ! something good to bring to a party if u really wanna show off
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Ugh! These make me wish I wasn’t doing Somer’s Green Smoothie Challenge over at vedgedout. I guess I’ll just have to wait a week. I love that you use chestnut puree. What a great addition!
I hear that!! I love doing the Challenge, but these are making me seriously question my decision!
I kinda feel like I should have made a proper new years resolution/done the smoothie challenge instead of starting to make bread again?
Haha! You can do the challenge when you need a bread break!
This is exactly the reason why I couldn’t read other blogs while doing the challenge. I have no willpower. Alexander. LOVE LOVE LOVE. Thanks for posting this my friend
Sigh. Without words, Alexander…
Started going to this vegan meet up in the city, everyone brings some kinda food item and i think im gonna take your creamsicle coconut cookies next time as they are bound to impress!
How fun to have a vegan group! I need one of those in Oklahoma – but I might be the only member
! Those cookies are great, but I’ll bet your chocolate chestnut pies would knock ‘em dead!
Thats what I took last night, I think they like em’. You should totes start one, you never know how many people might turn up!
Coconut milk in the US comes in cans that are 14 fluid ounces (a bit under 2 cups). Are the coconut milk tins you used also 1/4 cup (like the coconut cream)? Thanks! Can’t wait to try this.
The coconut creme over her comes either in small cans, about 1/4 cup, or UHT cartons, and the coconut milk comes in cans like you describe. hope that helps.
Thank you! This filling looks so creamy, I will keep an eye out for chestnut puree at the store.
Sarah, I don’t think coconut cream is easy to find here. I think you can sub it out by getting 2 cans of coconut milk to use in this recipe. Refrigerate one can and take the cream only from the top of the can in the amount required in the recipe. You can use the rest of the can from the fridge in a smoothie or a curry
That should do the trick 
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll definitely try it when I get my hands on some chestnut puree.
Waw!!! What a lovely creation: pastry crust & very rich & tasty filling too!
MMMMMMMM: georgous, lovely to look at & to savour too!
Wow. Those look incrediable!
Looks intriguingly delicious. I definitely plan to try it. I’ve been looking for a good crust, I think I’ve found it. Thanks in advance.
I can’t wait to make these, that silky filling is calling my name!
Your site is beautiful! The recipes inspire me to do some experimenting as I must be gluten free.