Easy Equally Chocolate Pecan Pie
July 20, 2020
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Despite the colloquial idiom, pies are non that easy, together with inwards my opinion, it’s non the dough that separates the proficient from the great, it’s the fillings. With fresh fruit pies, y'all cause got to worry virtually also much or also trivial liquid. Custard-based fillings are texturally tricky; together with don’t fifty-fifty larn me started on lemon meringue.
However, there’s ane category of pie whose fillings are together with then easy, they’re nearly impossible to mess up. That would last the seasonally appropriate nut pie. If y'all tin move a whisk, together with gear upward a timer, y'all cause got what it takes to excel inwards this genre.
We added a handful of chocolate chips, but the recipe is based on this ane from Allrecipes.com, which I came across looking for corn syrup gratis versions. By the way, it’s non that I intend corn syrup is a “bad” ingredient, I only know that most people don’t cause got it on hand, together with I’d abhor for them to purchase a whole bottle when a perfectly wonderful pie tin last made without it.
In fact, the filling is together with then deliciously decadent the crust is almost an afterthought. If y'all always desire to rationalize buying a frozen pie shell, this is your chance. Of course, if y'all desire existent “homemade,” y'all tin cheque out this video recipe for making pie dough, but the betoken is, either means your chocolate pecan pie is going to rock. Enjoy!
Ingredients:
1 9-inch pie shell
2 eggs
1 loving cup lite brownish sugar
1/4 loving cup white sugar
1/2 loving cup butter
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour (I didn't add together inwards this recipe, but advise y'all do. Add alongside the sugars.)
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 loving cup chocolate chips
1 1/2 loving cup chopped pecans