Mexican Hot Chocolate Bavarian Pie

Piled high with billowy whipped cream or toasted meringue, nothing says 1950s diner dessert quite like chocolate pie. But even fifty years earlier, at the turn of the twentieth century, Chocolate Bavarian Cream, essentially chocolate pie filling with the addition of gelatin, was very popular. Here, I have modified a recipe from Knox Gelatine Desserts, Salads, Candies and Frozen Dishes (1936), adding Mexican hot chocolate spices to the filling and topp