A super easy pie recipe! Combine raspberries, chocolate chips, and cream with store-bought pie crust and bake. The result is a chocolate raspberry ganache with a tender pastry top.
This easy dessert recipe gets me so excited. I love how simple it is to put together and it highlights the delicious raspberries that are just coming into season. Oh and the chocolate cream? My favorite part.
Coming up with this pie recipe involved A LOT of taste-testing and so even I, the non-baker, enjoyed the process. Smooshing the raspberries with chocolate and cream in the ramekin creates the luscious filling for the individual pies. Don’t you love that?
What Do I Use For The Mini Pie Top?
I used a store-bought pie crust for the top, cut into rounds. No need to make any fancy lattice tops or pinch the sides, just cut and place the pre-made crust on top of the filling when you’re ready to bake.
The pie crust caved in a bit while baking but a few berries perched on top made it pretty again. It’s so easy and so good.
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Mini Chocolate Raspberry Cream Pies
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
DESCRIPTION
A super easy pie recipe, and super delicious too! Into ramekins combine raspberries, chocolate chips, and cream. Top with store-bought pie crust and bake.
Ingredients
- 6 oz. of fresh raspberries
- 2 oz. of semi-sweet chocolate chips (about 4 rounded tablespoons)
- 4 pinches of table salt
- 4 pinches of ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- Pie dough for 1 pie, rolled out (I buy the refrigerated rolled out crusts sold near the crescent rolls)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Place four (3-in. diameter) ramekins on a baking sheet (this will just make it easier to get them in and out of the oven later). Put one-quarter of the berries into each ramekin (save 4-8 berries to use as a garnish later though). Add a rounded tablespoon of the chocolate chips to each ramekin and top with each with a pinch of salt and a pinch of cinnamon.
- Stir the berries and chocolate chips a bit, don’t worry if you smoosh the berries since they’re going to get smooshed more as they cook anyhow. Pour 2 tablespoons of cream into each ramekin.
- From the pie dough, cut four rounds slightly smaller than the size of your ramekins. Pop a round of pastry onto the contents of each ramekin.
- Put the pan of ramekins into the oven and cook for 15 minutes. Increase the heat to 425ºF and cook until the pastry is golden brown on top, 10-15 more minutes.
- Remove the pan from the oven and allow the mini-pies to cool for at least 10 minutes. My favorite way to eat them though is to let them cool right down in the fridge so that the chocolate sets up into a fudgey ganache. Top each little pie with one or two raspberries to serve.
This post originally appeared in November 2012. It was revised and republished in April 2018.
Paula says
For someone who says that she is not a baker, you certainly created some lovely little dessert pies here. Truly!
Susi says
This actually sounds delicious. I’ll have to invest in some ramkins (which I’ve wanted for a while anyways) and have to give it a try! :)
Christine Pittman says
I bet it would work in metallic muffin tins. The kind that are made of the thicker metal like disposable pie plates and roasting pans. Just a thought.
Liz says
You know what’s so funny? I woke up this morning thinking about chocolate raspberry cookies that I used to buy at the farmer’s market in Pittsburgh. We have some kind of telepathy thing going on here! Now I’m extra-inspired to come up with my own recipe for them.
This looks so tasty! But, to be honest, all you have to say is “berries and heavy cream” and I’m all over it! :)
Christine Pittman says
Actually, all you need to say to me is “heavy cream” and my ears perk up. EVERYTHING is better with cream!
Katie says
Yum! I never thought mix berries and pie and bake as a pie. I too am glad you document your entire process of the crust trials and tribulations.
TidyMom says
I loved hearing your whole process! This sounds fantastic! Chocolate and raspberry is one of my favorite flavor combos, I’m going to have to try this!
Thanks for linking up to Love the Pie! Good luck!
Christine Pittman says
I know – I love Chocolate and Raspberry too. Thanks for visiting my blog and for hosting such an awesome contest and link party. I am already loving all the pies that are popping up.