CHERRY CHOCOLATE CREAM CHEESE PIE

Chocolate Cream Cheese Pie is a simple pie made with cream cheese, cocoa, eggs, cream, vanilla and sugar all baked in a delicious graham cracker crust. This simple cream cheese pie recipe is rich and creamy like a perfect slice of cheesecake.

Sarah from Feeding Your Fam here to bring you a delicious dessert that is perfect for sharing! If you think that making cheesecake sounds super intimidating, this recipe is perfect for you. This Chocolate Cream Cheese Pie recipe gives you all the rich flavors and texture of a cheesecake without all the complicated instructions. The chocolate filling for this pie couldn’t be easier.

I like to use a store bought graham cracker crust when making this pie, just to simplify the whole process. If you would like to make your own graham cracker crust, you absolutely can.

Ingredients for Chocolate Cream Cheese Pie

These are the ingredients needed to make Chocolate Cream Cheese Pie:

• 9 inch pre-made graham cracker pie crust
• Softened cream cheese
• Sugar
• Cocoa
• Eggs, room temperature
• Vanilla
• Cold heavy cream
• 21 oz. can cherry pie filling

How to make Chocolate Cream Cheese Pie

Get the oven heating to 350ºF. Meanwhile, in the bowl of a stand mixer or large mixing bowl mix together the softened cream cheese and sugar. Mix until smooth and blended. Mix in the cocoa. Stop the mixer frequently to scrap the sides to make sure all the cocoa gets mixed in.

Add in the eggs and vanilla and mix until well blended.

Lastly, mix in the cold heavy cream and mix for 30-45 seconds until the filling is creamy.

Pour the chocolate cream cheese pie filling into the prepared pie crust. The filling will have some lumps, don’t worry about those, they will melt down and bake into the pie filling. The filling will fill the pie crust right to the top.

Place the pie in the oven and cook for 35-40 minutes. The center will still be a little soft after baking, but it will set as it cools.

Remove the pie from the oven when done cooking and place on a cooling rack. Allow the pie to come to room temperature, about 30 minutes. Over lightly with plastic wrap or foil and place in the refrigerator until cooled all the way through. This can take up to four hours, or I usually just plan to let it chill overnight before serving.

Serve with a dollop of whipped cream or I like to top with cherry pie filling.

 

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How to soften cream cheese

You can soften cream cheese by simply letting it sit on the countertop for 2-3 hours, until it comes to room temperature. Using room temperature cream cheese is vital. I don’t know if you are like me but I always forget to take the cream cheese out of the fridge! An easy way to soften the cream cheese is to use the defrost function on your microwave. Place the cream cheese, unwrapped, in a bowl, then select the lowest setting on defrost. Mine usually takes about 45 seconds. That’s it! Then proceed with the recipe.

Can you use low-fat cream cheese in this cherry chocolate pie recipe?

Yes, you can use low-fat or even non-fat cream cheese in this recipe. There is enough flavor and texture added in with the pumpkin layer and the graham cracker crust, that you probably won’t even notice the difference!

How to Make a Homemade Graham Cracker Pie Crust

I usually use a pre-made graham cracker crust in this recipe, but you can definitely make your own too! Graham Cracker Crusts are so easy to make. I like to use my food processor to crush up 12 graham crackers and then add in 1 tablespoon of brown sugar and 3 tablespoons of melted butter and pulse until it is like sand. If you don’t have a food processor, this graham cracker crust can be done with zip top bags or just in a mixing bowl.

To make a graham cracker crust in a plastic zip top bag, first put in the graham crackers and crush by using your hands or rolling over the crackers with a rolling pin. Add in the brown sugar and melted butter and mix by rolling the bag between your hands until sand like mixture is formed.

To make graham cracker crust in a mixing bowl. Crush the graham crackers with your hand or the backside of a wooden spoon. Add in brown sugar and melted butter and mix until like sand.

Press the graham cracker crust into the bottom of an 9 inch pie pan, bake in a 375ºF oven for 8 minutes, until golden brown. Let the crust cool before adding the filling.

Chocolate Cream Cheese Pie is a simple pie made with cream cheese, cocoa, eggs, cream, vanilla and sugar all baked in a delicious graham cracker crust. This simple cream cheese pie recipe is rich and creamy like a perfect slice of cheesecake.