A family recipe for a distinctive take on classic meatballs, provided by my mother-in-law. These are roasted in a delightful sweet-and-sour sauce that is based on tomatoes and is great with rice! The sauce’s original recipe was doubled. This recipe will yield a lot because we enjoy excess sauce.
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 1 pie |
Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ cup butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- ¼ cup hot fudge topping
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a pie plate well.
- Combine sugar and butter or margarine in a mixing bowl. Blend in vanilla, salt, and beaten eggs. Stir in flour and cocoa . Stir in nuts. Pour mixture into pan.
- Bake 25 minutes, or until toothpick inserted halfway between center and edge comes out clean. Immediately prick holes in pie; spread fudge sauce over top. Cool.
- Beat cold whipping cream and confectioners’ sugar in a chilled bowl until peaks form; spread over fudge sauce. Drizzle pie with additional fudge sauce. Refrigerate.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 555 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 56 g |
| Cholesterol | 118 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 8 g |
| Saturated Fat | 16 g |
| Sodium | 211 mg |
| Sugars | 32 g |
| Fat | 35 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
While this was good,and chocolatey,its very rich.
This is a keeper! The only change I made was to add the whipped cream at serving. This is very easy and company worthy.
Very good and fairly easy to make. I added a decorated topping for a special potluck. Enjoyed and photograped by all. One fellow from the South said he was a Mudpie expert. He rated this among the best he has had. Can’t go wrong, try it.
i love it, but it was kinda rich.
Love this recipe, it’s very rich though so do expect to take a large portion at one time.
Wow!!! This was already a great recipe but I took it over the top!!!! I made my crust with oreo cookies and butter. I also put caramel in holes after I took the pie out of the oven. Then I made fudge brownies and broke them up and mixed them with melted semi-sweet chocolate and layer it over the pie on top of the caramel. Then I added the whipped cream and on top of that put shaved chocolate and strings of fudge topping and caramel topping. I’m a hit!!!
The recipe was great- I made it for my friend’s birthday and our classmates devoured it. Personally, it was too chocolatey for me but noone else minded! I used “hot fudge sauce II” from this website and it worked very well.
YUMMY DELICIOUS!!! My husband can’t get enough of this one! I made one modification – I melted some chocolate chips with 1/2 teaspoon shortening in the microwave and drizzled it over the whipped cream. Watch out for adding extra nuts – we had too many. We all agreed that the pie base would also be great served warm with ice cream, omitting the whipped cream. Its a very flexible pie.
Great pie. I made the following modifications: – removed the nuts – chopped up semisweet bakers chocoloate and sprinkled it over the fudge – placed the whipped cream on the side It was a big hit. Super-dense-intense chocolation.