Chocolate Pecan Pie
Sep 10, 2019
4 minutes
by Cecelia Jenkins
CHOCOLATE PECAN PIE is a welcome shake-up to your usual pecan pie—still traditional but with a fun twist. It’s not a complicated idea: Put some chocolate and pecans into a pie crust (usually prebaked); pour in a filling of eggs, brown sugar, and corn syrup; and bake. The nuts float to the surface to create a crunchy top layer while the filling (a translucent custard) firms up into a silky, sliceable texture.
After making several recipes for this pie, the challenges were clear. Most fillings were much too sweet. Some contained only a sprinkling of nuts; others didn’t fully lean into the chocolate and had a just few chips thrown into the filling. A few became
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