My mother's favorite
dessert was always pie, mine, not so much. This never posed a problem for me
when I was a kid, but as I got older and started having her and dad for
dinner on special occasions, she would always ask that I make her pie. Lacking
culinary skills in that department (long since remedied, I am happy to say) I
would look for easy pie recipes of the pudding or ice cream variety. I well
remember making an ice cream pie of some sort for her birthday one year. It was fairly easy to assemble with its graham
cracker crust base topped with a layer of coffee ice cream, a layer of caramel, another of coffee
ice cream, and then topped with a decadent mocha fudge sauce. The pie was
forgettable, but that sauce stuck with me. Forget buying fudge sauce at the
market and make this one. It is so good that people have been known to eat it
right from the jar. Okay, it was me! But, I couldn't help myself, it is
really that good.
Mocha Fudge Sauce
2 tablespoons
boiling water
1 tablespoon instant
espresso powder or instant coffee powder
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons
unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup whipping cream
1/4 cup light corn
syrup
2 ounces unsweetened
chocolate, finely chopped
2 tablespoons (1/4
stick) unsalted butter
1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
Stir the 2 tablespoons boiling water and coffee powder together in a small bowl until the powder is completely dissolved; set aside. Whisk the sugar and cocoa together in a heavy medium saucepan until thoroughly blended. Whisk in the cream, corn syrup, and coffee mixture. Add chocolate and butter. Bring to a rolling boil over high heat, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to medium and simmer until slightly thickened, stirring occasionally, about 4 minutes. Cool 30 minutes. Stir in vanilla. Store in a covered container in the fridge until ready to use.
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