Foryoueats: Double-Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe

Ingredients

• Old-Fashioned Flaky Pie Dough , prepared as for a Blind Baked Pie
• For the Filling:
• 4 ounces 72% dark chocolate (3/4 cup; 115g), roughly chopped
• 1/4 ounces vanilla extract (1 1/2 teaspoons; 7g)
• 9 1/2 ounces sugar (1 1/3 cups; 270g)
• 3/4 teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt; use half as much if iodized
• 1/2 teaspoon espresso powder
• 1 1/2 ounces Dutch cocoa powder (1/2 cup; 45g)
• 1 1/4 ounces cornstarch (1/3 cup; 35g)
• 5 ounces egg yolk (shy 1/2 cup; 140g), from about 8 large eggs
• 24 ounces milk (3 cups; 680g), any percentage will do
• For the Topping:
• Swiss Meringue