Trad Home and Lonny mag asked us to do a recipe for their food stories. We teamed up with chef Camille Becerra and shot this perfectly indulgent winter pie: Chocolate + Crystalized Lavender. And for the sweetest packaging, we got adorable french pie boxes from our friend steph’s shop – a great take home favor at your next dinner party. You’ll find the full recipe in the card below, enjoy.
All photos by Karen Mordechai
Chocolate Lavender Pie
Crust
2 ½ cups flour
1 tsp salt
2 sticks organic butter, cut to small pieces
1 organic egg yolk
¼ cup iced water
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix together flour and salt.
Cut cold butter into flour to resemble course corn meal.
Mix together yolk and water and add to flour, knead slightly to incorporate and form dough, add more water as needed.
Chill dough to relax.
Roll out, fit to pan, blind bake for 15 minutes, checking to see if bottom is cooked though. Do not allow base to brown.
Chocolate Custard
2 cups cream
2 tbl dried lavender
8 oz bittersweet chocolate chip
1/3 cup sugar
Gently warm the cream, add lavender and steep for 3-5 minutes, strain.
Add cream, chocolate and sugar in a bain marie , stir to incorporate, warming until chocolate has melted through.
Chill slightly and pour into prepared crust.
Allow to set through (approx. 4 hours) before cutting.
Crystallized Lavender
2 tbl dried lavender
¼ cup granulated sugar
Blanch lavender in boiling water for 30 seconds.
Strain well and lightly pat dry.
While lavender is still moist roll it in sugar.
Spread on a sheet pan to dry separating clusters as best you
Recipe courtesy of Camille Becerra
THANK YOU for using lavender in dessert. I recently got some lavender buds from a farm nearby and have been wondering how to incorporate some into my baking. I made olive oil lavender body butter, and this is next on my list!
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oh yummy!!! i am definitely going to try this recipe!!!
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honestly your pictures are divine! the chocolate pie looks so beautiful to be eaten
this is so splendid! absolutely my kind of pie. i used to make a lavender chocolate cupcake with ganache piped into the middle. yum
Ohhhhh that picture looks so good I began to lick my computer screen. The only issue I see is that the adorable box won’t hold a second slice!! Chocolate and lavender…hmmm, hmmm, good!
Me Oh My! I am drooling right now…All I can think about is eating a slice of this pie…and I want it NOW
Love the details of the crystalized lavender buds! Lavender makes a tasty ice cream too as long as you don’t steep too much of it in your milk/cream mixture.
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Of course the dessert looks so so scrumptious but what really caught my eye was the original packaging…so creative. The lavender too is something I never would have thought of but obviously works so well.
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Where did those adorable pie boxes come from??
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I love your site and your recipes, but I’m in New Zealand and a stick of butter here is one pound! What weight is a stick of butter that you use in your recipes? Once I know that… I can start cooking!
I LOVE your food photos! Truly beautiful!
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Chocolate and lavender what a strange combination. I should admit that I never try it before but looks yummy.
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I’m with Taylor – where did you find the single pie box? L.O.V.E.
I love it! It’s pure magic!
Wow this looks so delicious! Gorgeous photography.
k-riv and taylor – see our post above, the pie boxes are available at this etsy shop : http://www.etsy.com/shop/petitmoulin
After seeing a NYC donut company mention lavendar donuts on the Food Network I’ve been mildly obsessed with obtaining lavendar food. Still haven’t gotten to those donuts yet and now THIS.
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Hi, I tried the recipe and the pie didn’t set. I’m wondering if the cream to chocolate ratio is accurate, and whether it needs an additional setting agent like egg yolks? Did you follow the recipe exactly to get the photographed results. Not sure what I did wrong. Please advise. thanks!
it look’s delicious … GREAT!!!
DefinitleyI will do this yummy cake but:
How much lbs will 2 sticks of butter take?
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That looks absolutely decadent! And I love the individual slice boxes! So cute and festive!
Simple pleasures are the best. Beautiful pictures
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needs 4 hours in the refrigerator to set.
YUM. send me some?
love the blog girl, so happy to have stumbled upon it.
love, rach.
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So amazingly delicious and romantic
Gabrielle – please will you post a link or recipe for your olive oil avender body butter, it sounds devine.
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I will be trying this very soon. Sounds amazing!
This looks divine. I will have to try this at some point.
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You managed to fit heaven in a box.
What a lovely blog you have here! I’m an excited, inspired new follower… beautiful photography, mouthwatering recipes and classy displays… thank you!
Beautiful photos! Love the idea of lavender mixed with anything – including decadent chocolate…and what a sweet little cake box!
My mouth is watering, my goodness! And I adore the pie boxes. I’ve been ordering them from Steph for a while now and everyone always thinks they are the niftiest and most adorable take home favors!
Thank you for sharing!
Kirbi
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Hi, this looks divine! But how much is a “stick” of butter? Im in London…does this mean a regular lurpak size? xx
I love the idea of combining chocolate with different flavours and the lavender sounds like it would be delicious! Beautiful photography as well, stunning pictures.
yes please!!! I want! xoxo lowtidehightide
Honestly this seems to be a pretty strange combination but apparently quite delicious. I certainly won’t to try that cake
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WOW! These recipes are UNREAL. I love the recipe card feature too! This cake looks incredible, and I absolutely love the packaging. Yum!!!
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Lavender Pie… it sounds more than gooooooooood
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This recipe also didn’t set for me, I left it in the fridge overnight and still had the same results in the morning. I’m also wondering if the ratio for the chocolate is off? When I looked up other recipes for chocolate pie I noticed that they all had egg in them to help as a setting agent, maybe that is needed?
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Like 2 other posters, this pie didn’t set for me. I followed the recipe most carefully, and even though I let the pie set in the fridge overnight, it never did set. I was so disappointed, because I had planned to take this pie to a tea party. It looked beautiful, but was liquidy. Can’t think what went wrong.
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this pie looks delicious. what is the weight of butter required for this recipe please?
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What a gem, i’ve found it in the archives!
Planning to make this pie tonight– how does it get the correct texture without any cornstarch or eggs?
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