No moo in Alton Brown's chocolate pie

I can safely state, if not for Alton Brown this pie would have never been made. And the reason? It contains tofu. Before watching the Good Eats episode on tofu I never gave this odd item a second look, lumping it with hippie chow (I can hear Eric Cartman grumbling about hippies now)

Anyway, I would have never, ever guessed tofu could be such a wonderful ingredient without 'discovering' that from Alton. "Tofuworld" is an older episode and this pie has been on my "to make" list for a while now. My first problem was locating silken tofu. Not a popular item locally.

But about a year ago I found it at the mega-mart. Instead of making the pie, I opted to make another recipe from this episode, the No Guilt Caesar, because I adore Caesar salad. It was mighty fine, by the way, and deserving of its own post.

I was in the mood to make a nice dessert, but with the warm (heck, down right hot and humid) weather settling in, baking was out of the question. So, the other day while roaming the mega-mart's "healthy" section I spied the silken tofu carton and knew what dessert awaited.

The only issue I had making this pie was locating coffee liqueur. I looked everwhere for that darn stuff but it was not to be found. Yet another casualty of living where I live. Oh bother.

But making the pie is flat out simple. Melt one bag of chocolate chips with a tablespoon of honey and the 1/3 cup coffee liqueur (if you have it!). Then pour the melted chocolate on a 16 ounce block of silken tofu and blend until smooth and creamy. I did mine in a bowl with my stick blender. I poured my mixture into a graham cracker crust and chilled for 2 hours.

It is plain awesome and very difficult to tell it has no dairy in it! I am also enjoying that fact since I have some issues with dairy products.

AB's Moo-less Chocolate Pie