July 17, 2011: Chocolate Pecan Pie

semolina gnocchi inwards a capsicum-tomato sauce for dinner as well as followed it upwards amongst soy chai as well as this boozy chocolate pecan pie.

I constitute the recipe on Amateur Gourmet, as well as he constitute it inwards Baked: New Frontiers inwards Baking past times Matt Lewis as well as Renato Poliafito. Though I've loved many a caramelly pecan pie inwards my time, this ane too boasts chocolate chunks as well as brandy. It was originally a bourbon chocolate pecan pie but it was brandy nosotros had on the bench. It worked as well as I'm certain at that spot are enough of other liquors that would meld amongst chocolate as well as caramel simply equally nicely. (If you're non ane for a difficult drink, crusade going difficult amongst the vanilla instead.)

I went amongst my habit spell making the crust rather than the instructions written down, as well as this served me well. I solely wishing I trusted myself farther as well as blind-baked this crust a fiddling earlier pouring inwards the filling (I'll add together that stride below). The base of operations held together but was definitely undercooked. I too noticed that the chocolate chunks had a theatre as well as slightly incongruous texture in ane trial this cooled down. No-one else seemed to notice, what amongst all the cocoa, brandy caramel, pecans as well as cream going around.

Chocolate pecan pie
(recipe adapted slightly from ane seen on Amateur Gourmet;
he credits it to Baked: New Frontiers inwards Baking past times Matt Lewis as well as Renato Poliafito)

crust
1 1/2 cups manifestly flour
2 teaspoons castor sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
125g mutual depression temperature butter
3/8 loving cup mutual depression temperature water

filling
2 cups pecans
iii eggs
3/4 loving cup lite corn syrup
iii tablespoons castor sugar
four tablespoons firmly packed dark-brown sugar
iii tablespoons butter, melted
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
iii tablespoons brandy
170g nighttime chocolate

In a nutrient processor, whizz together the flour, saccharide as well as salt. Add the butter inwards cubes as well as pulse 'til the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Gradually add together inwards the H2O equally it blends, processing until it forms a ball. Turn the dough out onto plastic wrap, mold it into a ball, as well as thence roll it upwards as well as refrigerate for an hour.

When the dough is ready, house it betwixt 2 sheets of plastic roll as well as ringlet the dough out to check a pie dish. Remove the plastic as well as gently check the pastry into the pie dish. Freeze the crust until firm, well-nigh an hour. Next time, instead of freezing the crust, I'll crusade pricking it amongst a fork, weighing it amongst beans as well as blind-baking inwards a moderate oven for 10-15 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 160°C.

Roughly chop the chocolate as well as spread it across the base of operations of the pie.

Coarsely chop 3/4 loving cup of the pecans. In a large bowl, lightly compaction the eggs. Add the corn syrup, sugars, melted butter, salt, vanilla, as well as brandy. Whisk in ane trial to a greater extent than until good combined. Stir inwards the chopped pecans, as well as thence tardily pour the caramel over the chocolate.

Arrange the remaining 1 1/4 cups pecan halves on summit of the filling.

Bake the pie until it is laid inwards the centre, well-nigh an hr (test it amongst a knife). Allow the pie to cool, serving it warm or at room temperature.