Black-Bottom Pie

Black-bottom pie is a chocolate cream pie—chocolate custard and sweetened whipped cream —with two added bonuses: an airy rum chiffon layer between the chocolate and whipped cream layers and a chocolate cookie crust. We love this pie’s contrast of flavors and texture, but while making the cookie crumb crust, chocolate custard, rum layer, and whipped cream, we dirtied three saucepans, seven bowls, and four whisks and spent three hours in the kitchen. We needed a way to streamline this old-fashioned recipe. Here’s what we discovered:

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