Chocolate Haupia Cream Pie

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2017

The name takes some sounding out, but once we’d settled the recipe, this Hawaiian pie was the talk of the test kitchen.

SERVES 8 to 10

TIME 1½ hours, plus 45 minutes cooling and 3 hours chilling

Chocolate Haupia Cream Pie

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The defining characteristic of this popular Hawaiian dessert is its firm haupia, pronounced how-PEE-ah, or coconut pudding, filling. Not the rich, ploppable stuff you usually think of as pudding, haupia is stable and slices cleanly: ¼ cup o...

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