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How is it that I'd never, ever heard of a Toll House Chocolate Chip Pie? So many people seem to have misty-eyed childhood memories of this fudgy cookie-like pie with the flaky pastry crust.
They made it every year for Christmas! It was a fixture on their Thanksgiving tables! *sigh* Having made it, sampled it and served it to my family more than a few times now, I can say with certainty that my children will not suffer the same, sad fate as adults that I am suffering now.
They will have their gluten free chocolate chip pie memories. And, with a little luck, they'll be misty-eyed too at their mother's relentless determination to give them those sweet memories.
For the unfamiliar, let's cover a few bases: This is not a skillet cookie. A skillet cookie is, well, basically a big cookie baked in a skillet. It's lovely, but it's no chocolate chip pie.
Something else it's not? A cookie cake. A cookie cake is also basically a big cookie. So much fun, but still—a delicious big ol' thick and chewy cookie. Chocolate chip pie is something different, indeed.
A light and flaky pastry crust (or a cookie crumb crust, if that's the way you wanna go (instructions included below)) with a rich, smooth, fudge-like chocolate chip cookie filling.
I adapted the original Nestlé recipe pretty heavily, since it just wouldn't set up as written, and went with all chocolate chips instead of chips and chopped nuts which I knew would be met with protest. And a chocolate chip pie should be all pleasure and no protest. Let's leave the protest for the vegetables.
Classic Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Pie
Ingredients
For the crust (See Recipe Notes)
- 1 ½ cups (210 g) all purpose gluten free flour blend (I highly recommend my Better Than Cup4Cup blend or my Mock Cup4Cup blend, but click thru for full info on appropriate blends), plus more for sprinkling
- ¾ teaspoon xanthan gum (omit if your blend already contains it)
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 6 tablespoons (84 g) unsalted butter roughly chopped and chilled
- ⅓ cup (2 ⅔ fluid ounces) cold water iced (ice cubes do not count in volume measurement), plus more as necessary
For the filling
- 10 tablespoons (140 g) unsalted butter at room temperature
- ½ cup (100 g) granulated sugar
- ½ cup (109 g) packed light brown sugar
- 2 (100 g (weighed out of shell)) eggs at room temperature, beaten
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ¾ cup (105 g) all purpose gluten free flour blend (I used Better Batter; please click thru for full info on appropriate blends)
- ¼ teaspoon xanthan gum (omit if your blend already contains it)
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
Make the pie dough.
- In a large bowl, place the flour, xanthan gum, baking powder and salt, and whisk to combine well. Add the chopped and chilled butter, and toss to coat it in the dry ingredients.
- Flatten each chunk of butter between your thumb and forefinger.
- Add 1/3 cup of water and mix until the dough begins to come together. Add the remaining water by the teaspoon until no part of the dough is crumbly.
- Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured piece of unbleached parchment paper and press into a disk.
- Sprinkle the dough lightly with more flour, and roll it out into a rectangle that is about 1 inch thick, moving the dough frequently and sprinkling it lightly with flour if it begins to stick.
- Fold the dough over on itself like you would a business letter. Sprinkle the dough again lightly with flour, and roll out the dough once again into a rectangle about 1 inch thick.
- Twice more, remove the top piece of parchment paper, sprinkle lightly with flour, and fold the dough over on itself like you would a business letter.
- Wrap the dough tightly in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator to chill.
Make the pie shell.
- Preheat your oven to 425°F. Grease a 9-inch deep dish pie plate and set aside.
- Remove the pie dough from the refrigerator.
- Place it on a lightly floured piece of unbleached parchment paper, dust lightly with flour, and roll into a 12-inch round, about 3/8-inch thick.
- Roll the pie crust loosely on the rolling pin and then unroll it over the prepared pie plate.
- Press the pie crust gently into the bottom and up the sides of the pie plate and, with kitchen shears, trim the excess crust so that only 1/4-inch of excess is overhanging the plate.
- Tuck the 1/4-inch of excess under itself, and crimp the edge gently all the way around the crust.
- Pierce the bottom of the pie crust with the tines of a fork and place the pie plate in the freezer to chill for 5 minutes.
Parbake the pie shell.
- Remove the pie plate from the freezer and place a large piece of unbleached parchment paper in the center of the crust.
- Place pie weights or dried beans in a single layer in the center of the pie crust, on top of the paper.
- Place in the center of the preheated oven and bake for 10 minutes or until just beginning to brown.
- Remove from the oven and remove the paper and pie weights.
- Reduce the oven temperature to 325°F.
Make the filling and finish the pie.
- In a large bowl, place the butter, granulated sugar and light brown sugar, and mix until well-combined.
- Add the eggs and vanilla, and mix again to combine.
- In a separate, small bowl, place the flour, xanthan gum, baking soda and salt, and whisk to combine well.
- Transfer about 1 teaspoon of the dry ingredients to a separate bowl, add the chocolate chips and toss to coat.
- Add the remaining dry ingredients to the butter and sugar mixture, and mix until just combined.
- Add all but about 1 ounce of the chocolate chips and mix until the chips are evenly distributed throughout the mixture, then scrape the mixture into the parbaked pie shell.
- Spread the filling into an even layer, and cover the edges of the crust with foil.
- Place the pie in the center of the preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes.
- Remove the pie from the oven, remove the foil from the edges and scatter the remaining 1 ounce of chocolate chips on top.
- Return the pie to the oven and bake until it’s set in the center and does not jiggle when shaken gently from side to side (about another 15 minutes).
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely before slicing and serving.
Notes
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Hi, I’m Nicole. I create gluten free recipes that really work and taste as good as you remember. No more making separate meals when someone is GF, or buying packaged foods that aren’t good enough to justify the price. At Gluten Free on a Shoestring, “good, for gluten free” just isn’t good enough! Come visit my bio!
Patti says
You are killing me. So many recipes to try!!!
Thank you for all the variety.
Jill Franco says
What can I use instead of eggs? Would EnerG egg replacer work?
Nicole Hunn says
I haven’t tested this recipe with any substitutions, Jill, so you’ll have to experiment. Generally, my favorite egg replacer is a “chia egg.” If you’re not familiar with it, just google it!