Try one of our unique Christmas Dessert ideas and make the unusual yet delicious Christmas pie this Christmas.

Chess Pie

• 1 - Pie Crust
• 3 - Egg Yolks
• 1 tbsp - Flour
• 2/3 cup - Sugar
• 1 1/3 cup - Whipping Cream
• ½ tsp - Salt
• 1 cup - Dates (cut up)
• 1 cup - Chopped Walnuts
• 1 tsp - Vanilla

• A little more than 1/3 cup - Shortening
• 1 cup - Flour
• 2 or 3 tbsp - Water

• Mix shortening into the flour with a fork until mixture is made up of crumbly lumps.
• Add water and toss with a fork until batter is moist.
• Now, using your hands, form the dough into a ball.
• Dust a large flat surface with flour.
• Place ball of dough on surface.
• Dust the dough ball.
• Carefully press ball flat with rolling pin.
• Dust ball again and flip, repeating the process until dough is eight to nine inches in diameter.
• Flip dough over rolling pin and lay it into pie tin.
• Trim edges.
• Set aside while making filling.
• Beat the egg yolks, flour, sugar and salt with a mixer until it is lemon colored and light.
• Now add whipping cream, the dates, the walnuts and vanilla.
• Stir but do not beat.
• When mixture is consistent, pour it into the pie shell and move to an oven preheated to 350 °F.
• Bake for about one hour.
• Pie will be done when crust is golden brown.