Ultimate Chocolate Cream Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups milk
2 eggs
1 tablespoon margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 9-inch baked pie crust

Preparation

In top of double-boiler mix sugar, flour and salt.
Whisk in 1 cup of the milk until smooth.
Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring briskly.
Continue to stir and let boil until smoothly thickened (about 2 minutes).
Remove from heat.
With fork, beat eggs with remaining 1 cup of milk.
Gradually stir into hot mixture.
Return to heat and bring to a boil.
Stir and boil until mixture thickens (about 1 minute).
Remove from heat and stir in margarine and vanilla.
Add 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips and stir until melted.
Spoon into prepared pie crust and cool.
Serve with real whipped cream.
For banana cream pie, omit chocolate chips, and slice 2 or 3 bananas into bottom of prepared pie crust and top with the pudding.
For coconut cream pie, omit chocolate chips, and stir in 1/2 cup of coconut.
I've never tried this, but it's on my list of things to do: stir in 1/2 cup of peanut butter (or peanut butter chips, I guess) for peanut butter cream pie (omitting the chocolate chips).