Mooless Chocolate Pie
Dish: Dessert
Taste: 5
Preparation: 5
Recipe: 4
Cost: $$
Repeat? Yes
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/moo-less-chocolate-pie-recipe/index.html
Taste: Initially we picked out this recipe for my daughter b/c she has a Milk Protein Allergy (Mild). This is completely distinct from a lactose intolerance, in that she can eat lactose in things and she’s fine, but dairy in something and she’s tetchy. Anyway, because of that, we went looking for a chocolate to use that didn’t have milk. The only one we found was a very bitter chocolate. So the pie was a little on the bitter side (the fact that I use too much of the wrong alchohol didn’t help). The second time we found some dairy-free (& gluten-free) chocolate chips, and skipped the alchohol. Tasted like a chocolate pie! yummmm! Next time I’m planning to use a homemade oreo recipe to make the crust, meaning the pie will be vegan, gluten free, and low-processed (agave instead of sugar, and no HFCS in the crust).
Preparation: Hardest part (well, really, ONLY part) is melting the chocolate. And that’s not really hard unless (like me) you don’t HAVE a double boiler. (I bought an insert between our first time and the second; not the greatest, but it beats the ceramic bowl I was floating in boiling water, ow!). Then you just blend and fridge 
Recipe: We changed the recipe up a little bit by taking out the alchohol. I’ve been using a big glop of killer bee honey from our last trip to a Renaissance Festival near us, and then using Agave to sweeten to taste. But the original recipe is melt, blend, pour, cool. It doesn’t get much simpler
Cost: Tofu, Chocolate chips, crumb crust. The chips are fairly expensive, b/c they’re “speciality”. But if you’re not actually concerned about the dairy content, then regular old chips should work great. The crust is brand-named, so that’s pricey. And tofu isn’t too bad, but silken isn’t one we usually have on hand, so it was a special purchase. So, even though it has very few ingredients, it can be relatively expensive :/
Tags: Dairy Free, Vegan