Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 3 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
• Pastry for a Single-Crust Pie
• 3 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup mint-flavor semisweet chocolate pieces – OR – 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips and 1/2 tsp peppermint extract
  Whipped cream, for serving
  Crushed candy canes, for serving

How to make it
1. In a small saucepan, combine butter and chocolate. Cook and stir over low heat until melted; cool slightly.
2. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350. Prepare pastry for a single-crust pie in a 9-inch pie dish.
3. For filling, in a large bowl, combine eggs, sugar, flour and vanilla. Stir in melted chocolate and the chocolate pieces (and pepper mint extract if substituting.) Pour filling into the pastry-lined pie plate.
4. Bake in the preheated oven about 55 minutes or until filling isevenly puffed and edge of filling is slightly cracked. Cool on a wire rack about 20 minutes or until slightly warm (center will sink slightly as pie cools.) Top each serving with whipped cream and, if desired, garnish with a mini candy cane or crushed candy canes. Makes 8 servings.