On a recent trip to Cyprus I tried a proper Sokolatopita or Greek Chocolate Pie in a supermarket cafe. It was early in the morning and most of the pie had already been sold. I soon realised why as I tucked in to my portion, it’s an indulgent, delicious treat. Before we left I went back to the cafe counter to get another portion, to take away with us, and it had all gone!

We went back to the same cafe several times during our stay but they never had it again and we couldn’t find it anywhere else. The only solution was to make my own Sokolatopita once we were back in the UK. I researched quite a few Greek baking websites but settled on a recipe taken from this excellent resource – Nikolopaa.

I’ve made several Portokalopita or Greek Orange Pies and done well with those. Sokolatopita is the cousin of that dessert (although not made using filo) so I was quite happy taking it on. The recipe on the website was excellent and I followed it to the letter. It’s not a difficult bake and all went well.

The resulting pie was just the same as that shown on the website. It tastes really good but might be a bit too sweet for some. It’s a very damp cake oozing with chocolate syrup. Certainly more of a dessert than a cake in this form. The Sokolatopita I tried in the cafe wasn’t quite as moist as this pie and more Brownie like in texture. I think commercially it’s more viable for servings to be a bit more cakey with a more defined crumb to hold the pie together.

I’ll definitely make this again but half the syrup portion next time, to try and get that gooey brownie texture.

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