Chocolate Haupia Pie Recipe – Traditional Hawaiian Pudding With A Twist

This Hawaiian Chocolate Haupia Pie recipe combines rich chocolate with creamy Hawaiian coconut pudding, to create a chocolate and coconut pie. Follow our easy recipe and impress your guests with this indulgent Hawaiian treat.

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Another Hawaiian dish. This time it’s dessert! Haupia is a traditional Hawaiian dessert that is basically like a coconut-y pudding-y jello-y… Okay, it’s technically a pudding, since it’s thickened with cornstarch, but it is thickened to the point that you can cut it into squares and pick it up and eat it. If you’ve never had haupia, try my traditional haupia recipe! Chocolate haupia pie is taking haupia, adding some chocolate, and putting it in a pie. Did I need to explain that, or did the name give it away?!

Classic chocolate haupia pie is made in a standard pie shell. That’s fine and good and all, but sometimes I like graham cracker crust more than pie crust. I also like individual mini-sized desserts, so this time I decided to use mini graham cracker pie crusts. I just got these ones. You can make your own graham cracker crust, but I was feelin a little lazy, and these are cute.

Chocolate Haupia Pie Recipe

So basically the anatomy of chocolate haupia pie is: pie crust, chocolate coconut layer, coconut layer, whipped cream topping. I decided to make big “flowers” with the whipped cream, reminiscent of a Hawaiian lei. Creative, riiight?

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As a side note, see those flowers there? Clearly fake, especially since I’m not living in Hawaii… It’s a plastic plumeria hair piece that I wore for my wedding (which was in Hawaii, where my husband is from). Woohoo, I got some use out of it again! It makes me happy when I actually use my wedding stuff again. Like, I spent all this money on everything, I should be able to get more than one use out of it right??? So that made me a little happy.

These chocolate haupia pies are sooo yummy, like a bite of the tropics… plus chocolate! Win and win.

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Hawaiian Chocolate Haupia Pie

4 thoughts on “Chocolate Haupia Pie Recipe – Traditional Hawaiian Pudding With A Twist”

  1. 4 stars
    Needs way less chocolate. The semi-sweet chocolate is overpowering. If you divide the pudding equally and mix half with chocolate as directed, you get way too much of that and not enough plain to cover it, plus it’s just… tooooo much chocolate flavour. Next time: 1/2 the chocolate, stir a little of the pudding into it & make a much thinner layer. (Also there was too much, with the chocolate, for all the filling to fit a deep dish pie shell so I had to leave some out.

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