Chocolate Chip Pie
A recipe from my mom's 1950's childhood, this old fashioned Chocolate Chip Pie is light and fluffy! Best of all, it's so easy and delicious!
For my mom's birthday this year, she asked for Chocolate Chip Pie. Apparently this is a recipe that my grandma used to make when my mom was little and they lived on a farm. As best as I can figure, this pie may have originated in the early 1950s.
When my mom said she wanted Chocolate Chip Pie, I immediately thought of something similar to a pecan pie, but with chocolate chips in it instead... I have no idea why I thought that, but it's a good thing I got the recipe! This Chocolate Chip Pie is nothing like that!
Instead, Chocolate Chip Pie is light, fluffy and sweet from the marshmallows with a graham cracker crust, and a sprinkling of grated chocolate. It's really quite tasty, and I loved that it was very easy!
The funny part is that after getting the recipe, I started scouring the internet trying to find the same recipe, but maybe this was more regional or something. The only mention I found of the same pie is from a newspaper clipping in Missouri in 1951. But since my family isn't from Missouri, I have no idea what got my grandma to start making this pie!
No matter where it came from, Chocolate Chip Pie is delicious!
📖 Recipe
Chocolate Chip Pie
Ingredients
Graham Cracker Crust
- 6 tablespoon butter
- 1 ½ C crushed graham crackers
- 3 tablespoon sugar
For the Filling
- ½ C milk
- 30 marshmallows,, about half a bag
- 1 C whipping cream
- 1 ounce semi-sweet baking chocolate,, grated
Instructions
For the Graham Cracker Crust
- Preheat oven to 350º.
- Melt butter, and stir in crushed graham crackers and sugar. Press into a pie pan.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, until golden brown.
- Cool.
For the Filling
- While crust is baking, begin preparing pie.
- Over medium-low heat, melt marshmallows in milk, stirring often.
- Once marshmallows are melted, set aside to cool.
- Whip whipping cream.
- Fold whipping cream into marshmallow mixture.
- Stir in grated chocolate.
- Pour into graham cracker crust.
- Refrigerate until set.
Notes
Don't want to turn on the oven? Use a pre-made graham cracker crust to make this a no-bake recipe!
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My mother made this but used dream whip powdered stuff. I am missing her extra today (we lost her in January of 2009.) This is my favorite pie but I lost the recipe. I may use your version since it looks exactly like hers! (She never baked her crust either....)
I'm so sorry for you loss. It doesn't matter how many years go by, when we love someone. I hope you'll enjoy this recipe, Teresa, and that it will bring back lovely memories for you.
My sister made this one with mini chocolate chips. It was do good. Wish I had the recipe.
@Teresa, my grandmother made this with dream whip also.I found dream whip and will substitute that so its like my grandmothers.
In '60, believe I found recipe in Successful Farming magazine.
When I was a child in the '40s and '50s, my mother would ask what I wanted for my birthday supper. I would ask for chocolate chip pie. I didn't have a recipe. Your pictures look like what I remember. The recipe sounds right. Thanks for posting this recipe!
You're so welcome, Judy! I hope it tastes exactly like the one you remember!
Made the Marshmellow Chocolate Chip Pie for the first time tonight. Used a 9 inch pre-made crust and the recipe filled it perfectly. Also used a medium grater for the semi-sweet chocolate and it seems to have been a little too fine. The flakes are distributed evenly throughout the pie but I think a coarser grating would make the pie look more like your pictures. Pie is delicious.
I'm so glad you liked it! I believe I used my box grater, so maybe try that. Thanks so much for leaving a comment!
I was born in 1955, and raised on a farm in IA, and we had this pie frequently. I thought of this pie, as I have marshmallows to use, but I couldn't find my recipe. So, why not check the internet?! This picture looks exactly like the one I grew up with, I have all of the ingredients except the whipping cream!
Oh my. This is like a s'more pie! I must admit that I have never had a marshmallow pie, but now I want to. Pinning!! Thank you.
I hadn't had a marshmallow pie before this either, but it was quite tasty! I'm so glad my mom asked me to make it!
Chocolate chip pie (or chocolate chip anything! 🙂 sounds good... .this looks delicious. 🙂
I'm with you on that-- chocolate chips make everything better, right? 🙂
What a delicious sounding pie!! All the sweets, whipped cream, graham crackers, marshmallows and CHOCOLATE chips in one spot! Yum!
It really is delicious! It's like the best of everything!
I've never heard of this either! It sure looks delicious though. The chocolate chip toll house type pie is what I thought of too, initially. Great recipe, and thanks for posting - definitely pinning.
Deb, I could definitely eat a piece of the toll house type as well, but I love how different this chocolate chip pie is! Thanks for pinning!
Wow that looks super tasty... almost like a smores pie! I've never heard of it either, I'll have to try one!
Krista, I hadn't thought of the fact that it's like smores, but you're right! It's so tasty!
@Jamie H, My mother always attributed this recipe to the Sterlingworth Hotel, a lovely old wooden hotel in Lauderdale Lakes, Wisconsin (near Whitewater, Wisconsin). She told me many times about the Sterlingworth’s cook, who was famous (well, maybe locally) for her chocolate chip pie. My mother was very proud to have a copy of the recipe from the Sterlingworth’s cook and passed it on to me. Like what many of the comments have said, this recipe involved a double boiler and unsweetened chocolate, as well as perhaps some vanilla, but otherwise is identical to your recipe. The Sterlingworth burned down in the 1950s, so I think this recipe may be a little bit older, perhaps from the 1940s. It’s always been one of my favorites, which my husband calls Sterlingworth Pie.
@Barbara Flynn, Thanks so much for sharing that! I love hearing all the history behind this recipe. It's fun when a recipe has such a rich history!