Recipe 16- Chocolate Silk Pie (French Chocolate Pie)

                                                               CHOCOLATE SILK PIE
                                                           (FRENCH CHOCOLATE PIE)

1 frozen deep-dish pie crust (9 inch), thawed
1 1/2 pkg (4 oz each) BAKER'S semi-sweet chocolate ( 6 oz), broken into pieces
10 tablespoons butter, softened
2/3 C sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 C cholesterol-free egg product
1 C thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping

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For my daughter Caroline Welch's 11th birthday, I made this pie for our family celebration.  Her favorite pie is Chocolate Pie. The family enjoyed this sweet dessert.

My mother kept a similar recipe to the one above in her recipe folder in her kitchen in Lloyd Harbor, New York.  My mother's recipe was found on the back of an old  Cool Whip cover. The price of Cool Whip was 75 cents at the time.   I began to prepare my mother's recipe for chocolate pie BUT I noticed that her recipe called for 2 uncooked eggs.  I presume that back in the 1970's eating uncooked eggs was not seen as a signifiacant health risk. I went to the internet and researched chocolate pie recipes.  The above recipe is the current recipe ( 2013) provided by COOL WHIP for making chocolate silk pie.  The recipe is essentially the same as my mother's recipe but calls for cholesterol-free egg product instead of eggs.