Oreo and White Chocolate Pie with Dark Chocolate Ganache
Ingredients
Oreo crust:
- 12 Oreo cookies
- 30g butter
Filling:
- 250ml cream
- 45g sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar (see notes)
- 200g white chocolate (chopped)
- 45g butter (chopped or softened)
- 6 crushed Oreos
Ganache:
- 100g good quality dark chocolate
- 125ml whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons honey
- whole Oreos to decorate
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350°F (175°C). For the crust: Blitz the Oreos in a food processor until they are fine crumbs. Melt the butter and then stir into the Oreo crumbs. Press into a spring-form tin (mine was 18cm / 6 inches) and bake for around 8 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely.
- In the meantime, prepare the filling: In a medium-sized pan, heat the cream, sugar and vanilla sugar together, just until the liquid starts a simmering boil. Remove from the heat and add the chocolate and butter. Don't stir, but leave to sit for around five minutes and then whisk together until it is nice and thick. Finally, fold in half of the six crushed Oreos (retain the rest for later), pour over the crust, and place in the fridge to set a little (around an hour).
- For the ganache: Heat the whipping cream and honey until it just starts to boil. Remove from the heat and add the dark chocolate. As above, don't stir, just leave for five minutes before whisking well until a thick ganache forms. Pour over the filling and leave to set for a while before pushing the whole Oreos into the ganache (if you do it when the ganache is still very soft, they will topple over). Sprinkle the remainder of the retained crushed Oreos prepared earlier.
- Pop in the fridge overnight and then place in the freezer an hour or two before you are ready to eat it (see notes). Remove from the freezer and let the pie sit for around ten minutes before serving. Enjoy!
Notes
I use vanilla sugar in my recipes. Here you can see how to convert the measurements for vanilla sugar to extract/essence.
This dessert is very soft. If you would like it to be firm, place in the freezer a couple of hours before eating. Otherwise, if you like a gooey dessert, just leave it in the fridge until ready to serve.