With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, thoughts often turn to chocolate. Beautiful bonbons, heart-shaped boxes of chocolate, chocolate-covered cherries … those are just a few of the chocolate yummies that come into our lives this time of year.
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Consider, though, a chocolate fudge pie for a change — a chocolatey confection that’s sure to melt your chocoholic Valentine’s heart.
One thing I particularly like about this fudge pie, one that I’ve been making for decades now, is that it calls for cocoa rather than a bar of chocolate. I always have cocoa in my pantry, but usually use up chocolate bars and only buy them when I need them for a recipe. Cocoa, on the other hand, will last for quite some time because most recipes don’t use a lot of it, and the containers that you buy hold quite a bit. This recipe calls for just 1/3 cup of cocoa.
I wish I could remember what cookbook I found this in, but back in the early days of smartphones, I took a photo of the recipe and added it to my online scrapbook of recipes. I’m sure, however, it was one of those locally generated cookbooks from a church or community club, the kind that have recipes that are all tried-and-true. This one certainly is.