CHOCOLATE CHESS PIE
This Chocolate Chess Pie is so good. I cannot decide which one I like better, the regular chess pie or the chocolate. If you are a chocolate lover then this is the pie for you and it will not last long. My family loves this pie and asks for it often. It’s wonderful warmed up and topped with ice cream!
Chocolate chess pie simple ingredients:
Butter
Sugar
Cornmeal
Eggs
Evaporated milk
Vanilla extract
All-purpose flour
100% pure cocoa
Nuts (Walnuts or pecans are best)
1 regular pie crust
If you have never tried a chess pie you really should! This pie is super easy to make absolutely delicious. We have a lot of pie recipes on our website and the chess pies are at the top of my list. This Pineapple Chess Pie is also amazing. It’s so easy to make, mix everything up, pour in pie shell and bake.
Full printable recipe in recipe card below!
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Chocolate Chess Pie
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine or 4 tablespoons melted
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cornmeal
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup evaporated milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons 100% pure cocoa
- 1 cup nuts Walnuts or pecans are best
- 1 regular pie crust
Instructions
- Melt butter and set aside. Beat sugar, cornmeal, eggs, milk and vanilla extract with mixer. Add melted butter and continue mixing. Mix together the flour and cocoa and add to egg mixture. Fold in nuts. Pour into uncooked pie crust and bake in preheated 400 degree oven 30 to 35 minutes. Pie will rise up while cooking and fall once it has cooled. I usually just cut the oven off, open the door and let the pie cool in the oven. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream on top.
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I have been looking for this recipe for a long time. My son had requested this for Thanksgiving, so I am very thankful to have found it.! Thank you
YAY!! So glad you found it.
I love this recipe and have made it several times! Is there a way to make this without eggs? A friend has an egg allergy and I want to see if there is anything I could sub while retaining the recipe’s deliciousness.
I followed this recipe exactly. I was so surprised that it was not good. I used to really enjoy chocolate chess pie but this was really not as I remembered at all. I remember a fudgy, rich and dense pie. This was not any of those things. These folks have THE best recipes but this one is not good. I threw it it out.
Hi Donna,
I’m not sure where you went wrong, but this pie is definitely a fudgy, rich dense pie. If yours didn’t turn out that way then you didn’t bake it long enough, or something else went wrong. Not all recipes work for everyone. Sorry, this one didn’t work out for you.
I am looking for a pie my grandmother use to make. It was a Chocolate Pie. No Fudge Pie or Chess Pie. Just a regular old time Chocolate Pie. Thanks for any help.
This is an old recipe I had for years for chocolate pie and we get great reviews on it. You can click the link I am posting here but you can also type in what you are looking for in the search box on our site. All chocolate pies will come up in the search and you can check them out. https://thesouthernladycooks.com/2012/02/11/sweet-chocolate-pie/
As far as the corn meal – what type? I always buy a buttermilk cornmeal Mix. Is this white corn meal, yellow corn meal etc…. Love your recipes!!!! 🙂
Either one will work, Kathy. The cornmeal mix is fine to use.
Up north, above the Mason/Dixson line, nobody knows what chess pie is…I got my recipe from a little southern lady in Kentucky one year when we were on vacation, I’m from Iowa….I loved the story that went with it, too…the reason it is named “Chess Pie”…..
Can I leave out the corn meal?
You can leave it out but it won’t be a chess pie without the cornmeal and it will take away from the taste.
Can you make it without nuts. My grandaughter is allergic and I’m always looking for something to bake for her
I always add nuts to this pie Jackie. There are lots of pie recipes on the site without nuts if you just type “pie” in the search box on any page they should all come up for you.
If you love lemon- try Lemon Chess Pie- yum, yum it’s so good
THANKS FOR THIS REC.I EAT THIS CHOCOLATE CHESS PIE AT GOLDEN CORRAL AND IT IS OUT OF A MIX I AM SURE.BUT THIS I WILL CERTAINLY TRY.THANKS BUNCHES
Born and raised in the south been eating them all my life South Georgia has great food
I cannot believe people have never heard of Chess Pie!! I am 63 and grew up on this. If my gmother didnt make it she would get one downtown at Harveys Dept store. I have her recipe for reg cp. everybody needs to make the regular one first. It is Sweet, so be ready.
Can’t wait to try both, regular and chocolate, never heard of this pie.
I have only had chess pie …. can’t wait to try the chocolate version 😉
this is the first time I have heard of chess pie..and am really eager to try it this weekend…cannot wait and will tell ye how it turned out!! 😉 😀
They both look so good, I love Chocolate Chess pie, but I’ve never had regular Chess pie, but it looks so simple I might just make both of these this week and decide for myself which is better, they both look like quite a delight!!
I need a Recipe for reg chess pie??? Thank U! 🙂
If you click the link in this recipe in the first statement it takes you to the regular chess pie recipe, Lynn.
Can you use whole milk instead of evaporated?
I do not like the taste of evaporated.( crazy I know) I do not ever buy this.
Thank you, I know some recipes do not work as well if you do not use the exact ingredients.
This pie looks delicious!
You can’t taste the milk in this pie but you can try it. I always use the evaporated milk. It would probably work with regular milk, too.
Evaporated milk just has less water in it than regular milk, and actually used in recipes, it gives it a creamier texture and you can’t tell the difference once it is out of the oven! 🙂