Belgian Chocolate Pie Recipe

Once the Belgian chocolate pie has cool down, sprinkle some icing sugar on it and serve on a lovely cake plate.

You can decorate your Belgian chocolate pie with icing or frosting like any other cake. My favorite type of decoration is a coat of sweet chantilly; which is tasteful, fresh and, of course, lighter than icing and frosting.

Make sure to use dark Belgian chocolate as well as butter to prepare this recipe. In addition, make sure that the type of Belgian chocolate you're using is made out of cocoa butter and not margarine. Another reason for choosing a Belgian chocolate as dark as possible is that milk chocolate doesn't provide the pie with a great taste. On the other hand, margarine definitely doesn't work with the recipe.

Cupcakes are among the most popular types of cakes to serve at parties and you might want to turn this Belgian chocolate pie recipe into cupcakes. This is doable, of course. However, remember that, since we didn't add baking powder to the Belgian chocolate pie mixture, the mini pies won't be as big as cupcakes.

As explained in an article I published about pirate cake and cupcake ideas, you can prepare the Belgian chocolate pie recipe in the same way as the normal one but instead of pouring the mixture in a tart mold, you're going to use cupcake molds. Because of the sugar level of the recipe, I recommend to spread a tiny coat of butter and flour on the mold before pouring the chocolate based mixture; this will help the cupcakes not to sick to the mold.

Naturally, you can also pour the Belgian chocolate batter into themed cupcake molds such as flowers, eggs, hearts, Mickey Mouse molds, etc. Then you'll decorate the mini chocolate pies in the same way as you decorate standard cupcakes. However, and, once again because the Belgian chocolate pie is quite heavy, I recommend to put a tiny coat of icing or frosting when you decorate them, more particularly if you pay attention to your kids waistline.