Chocolate Pie

 1 pie crust (poke holes in before baking)

1 cup sugar

3 Tbsp Hersheys Choco powder

3 heaping Tbsp corn starch 

2 cups milk

1/2 stick butter (1/2 cup)

1 tsp vanilla

3 eggs (separate yolks and whites)

 

Bake pie crust in oven according to package.  Let cool completely.  In a medium pot mix using a whisk sugar, choco, corn starch, milk (add slowly), butter, vanilla and egg yolks. Cook to thicken for a few minutes mixing constantly.  Be sure to get the bottom so it doesn't stick or burn. Will firm up to look like pudding.  

Meringue:

In a mixer at high speed whip up the egg whites and 1/4 cup sugar. 

To assembly pie

1.  smooth chocolate into cooked pie shell

2. Top with meringue smoothing it out to the edge

3.  Put in the oven for 2-3 minutes to lightly brown the meringue (or 30 seconds on broil) Watch carefully that it doesn't burn.