This Paleo Chocolate Pie is a family favorite. The boys like to top it with homemade Whipped Cream. It is absolutely fantastic served that way! If you want to keep the recipe dairy-free, top it with my Coconut Whipped Cream. I hope you enjoy this Paleo Chocolate Pie as much as we do!
Paleo Chocolate Pie
Ingredients
- 1⅔ cups chocolate chips
- 6 large eggs, separated
- 1 tablespoon honey
- ¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
Instructions
- In a saucepan, melt chocolate over very low heat; remove from heat
- In a medium bowl, beat egg yolks with honey for 1 minute with a hand blender
- In a large bowl, beat egg whites with a hand blender until stiff peaks form
- Stir egg yolk mixture into pot of warm chocolate
- Mix chocolate and yolks until combined; mixture will be slightly thickened, shiny and beautiful
- Stir salt into chocolate mixture
- Fold egg whites into chocolate mixture
- Transfer into cooked and cooled Pie Crust (page 79 The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook)
- Refrigerate for 3 hours
- Serve
Equipment
This quick and easy Paleo Chocolate Pie recipe is made with 4 ingredients. The recipe is based on one from Silvana Nardone’s book, Cooking for Isaiah. I met Silvana at Blogher Food in 2010. During the conference, we learned that in terms of our children, we have much in common. Silvana is the former editor-in-chief at Rachael Ray Everyday. She began cooking gluten-free after her son, Isiah, now 13 and very into basketball, was diagnosed as gluten intolerant. I too began my adventures into gluten-free cooking when my son Jacob (now 12 ½, and very into baseball) was diagnosed with celiac disease.
My son has been on a strict gluten-free diet since he was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2001. He’s a huge fan of this gluten-free Paleo Chocolate Pie recipe, and so are his friends. And they have no food restrictions whatsoever!
Trish Lopez says
I love your site and most of your recipes, but after doing a little research on agave nectar I’m surprised that you use it so much. I’ve read that agave nectar naturally contains even more synthetic fructose than high fructose corn syrup. Since our bodies are unable to use this fructose isomer for energy it is transformed into triglycerides (fat). It also contains saponins, steroid derivatives known to cause diarrhea and vomiting. They have also been known to cause miscarriages. Your thoughts?
elana says
Trish,
Thanks for your comment. I actually wrote a post on this topic more than a year ago. Here’s the link in case you are interested: https://elanaspantry.com/is-agave-good-or-bad/.
Thanks,
Elana
Amy says
If you don’t have time to make the crust, could you pour the mousse into ramekins and serve as is?
Holly says
I made this and it is so quick and easy and YUMMY!
Alta says
This looks rich and so good! I love your version.
Calla says
This was greatly loved by all my family on Easter Sunday… Thank you
Stephanie says
YUM! I skipped the agave, as I’m guessing my Kosher for Passover chocolate chips had more sugar than your Dagoba ones. Other than that, followed precisely the filling. We eat dairy in our house, but the absence of cream in the recipe just gave me a good excuse to make whipped cream for the topping :)
The kids LOVED it, and my husband licked the bowl clean but later found it too dark. (More for US!)
Happy Pesach
Ruth J Hirsch says
Dear Elana,
Yasher Koach– from strength to strength.
Thank you for your on-going good work, and generosity.
Love reading your writings on food + family.
May this book bring you lots of pleasure, whatever you most would want.
All best,
Ruth
Kirbi says
I just got my Amazon email confirmation that my copy has been SHIPPED! EEK! :) Congrats to your new ‘bundle of joy’…you will have many, many loving relatives all over America babysitting it as soon as it’s here! :)
Kirbi
Chelle Stafford says
Oh Wow! Elana, you’re a SuperHero! I NEEDED a chocolaty treat, and this hit it! The yolk/agave/salt mixture was so good I was afraid to diminish it by adding the egg whites, but that finished mousse was sooooo amazing! Decadent!! I’m on a figure competition diet, so my treats are few and far between, and this was PERFECT! And… just to ice my cake of happiness, I can serve this to my sister-in-law who’s celiac, my father-in-law and niece who are diabetic, and to anyone else who loves chocolate!!! Out of curiosity, I ran the recipe through NutritionData.com and here’s what I got (I made the recipe without a crust, and used a 12 inch pie plate, divided into 16 servings):
102 calories
Protein: 3 g
Carb: 5 g
Fat: 7 g
Sugars: 3 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sodium: 57 mg
Erica dinner says
The egg yolk and chocolate mixture was heavy so I stirred in some of the egg whites first and then folden in the rest but it was still to heavy. Did not want to toss it and waste alot of good chocolate so I decided to just blend it all up. Great taste but not a fluffy mousse like I intended it to be.