5 years ago I saw the movie Waitress for the first time. I liked it. I wouldn’t say I loved it, but it did make me want to make a pie from scratch–AND that one pie did change my life.

It made me wake up at dawn to practice my pie crust every week. It made me give pie away to others. It made me work with my hands, my brain, and most importantly, my heart. It made me look at my world in a whole new way, through my tastebuds.

It made me want to live a whole pie life–AND I do. Any time I doubt who I am, or why I exist, all I have to do is make a pie and remember when I decided to actually start living and licking all my pie plates clean. 

What was the pie that changed my life forever? The Falling In Love Chocolate Mousse Pie from Waitress. It helped me fall in love with cooking, no telling what it might do for you? 

Recipe:

Falling In Love Chocolate Mousse Pie

Ingredients:

9 inch baked pie crust

1  14oz can of condensed milk

2/3 cup of water

1  4 serving package of cook and serve chocolate pudding

 1 oz. of unsweetened dark chocolate

1 pint of whipping cream

How-To:

In a saucepan, combine condensed milk, pudding, water and mix well.

Over medium heat, add chocolate and stir until melted. Whisk the mixture until it thickens.

Remove from heat. Cool then put in fridge to chill throughly (an hour is good).

Stiffly whip cream using a mixer. 

Fold whipped cream into chilled pudding mixture and beat until smooth.

Scoop into pie crust. Put it in the fridge and chill until set.