Decadent Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate Mousse Pie

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 cups chocolate wafers, crushed (1 package)
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 16 ounces semisweet chocolate
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 4 eggs, divided
• 3 cups whipping cream, divided
• 7 1/2 tablespoons icing sugar, divided

Recipe

• 1 crust: mix chocolate wafers and butter. press on bottom and sides of a 10" springform pan. chill for 30 minutes.
• 2 filling: in a double boiler, melt the semisweet chocolate; let cool to lukewarm. add a little of the chocolate mixture to the beaten eggs, then pour into the chocolate. add 4 egg yolks and beat well.
• 3 whip 2 cups cream with 6 t icing sugar till soft peaks form.
• 4 beat 4 egg whites until stiff but not dry.
• 5 stir 1/4 each of the egg whites and the cream into the chocolate mixture. fold in the remaining whites and cream. pour onto the crust and chill at least 6 hours or overnight.
• 6 garnish: whip 1 cup whipping cream with 1-1/2 t icing sugar until stiff. loosen crust on all sides using sharp knife, remove springform.
• 7 spread some of the cream over top of the mousse. garnish with chocolate sprinkles or curls -- strawberries or raspberries -- or a berry coulis.