Chunky Chocolate Pecan Pie
- 1 3/4 cups flour, all-purpose divided
- 13 cup butter unsalted, chilled, cut into pieces
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 x water ice cold
- 1/2 cup butter, unsalted
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 12 ounces chocolate (semi-sweet) semi-sweet chips, divided
- 2 ounces chocolate unsweetened unsweetened, chopped
- 1 1/2 cups corn syrup, dark
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 8 large eggs
- 3 cups pecan halves toasted
- Pastry:
- Mix 1 1/4 cups flour, butter, sugar and salt together with electric mixer.
- Beat on low for 5 minutes until mixture is crumbly.
- Add ice water by spoonfuls while mixer is running on low speed until a dough forms.
- Remove dough from bowl and place on board lightly covered with flour.
- Knead into a smooth dough ball.
- Flatten into a disk.
- Cover with plastic and chill a few hours.
- When chilled, roll out into a 15-inch circle about 18 inch thick.
- Place in 9-inch tart pan with removable bottom.
- Press into bottom and sides of pan.
- Trim off excess dough leaving a 1 inch overhang.
- Turn inside and crimp edge.
- Cover loosely and chill 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 325F (160C).
- Filling:
- Heat butter and sugar in saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring constantly.
- Bring to a boil.
- Cook a few minutes.
- Remove from heat.
- Pour into mixing bowl and add half the chocolate chips and all the unsweetened chocolate.
- Stir until chocolate has melted.
- Add dark corn syrup, vanilla and salt.
- Beat in eggs using electric mixer on medium speed one at a time.
- Beat until mixture is smooth.
- Place pastry shell on baking sheet.
- Evenly sprinkle pecan halves over bottom of pastry.
- Sprinkle remaining 6 ounces chocolate chips over pecans.
- Slowly pour batter over all.
- Bake pie for 1 hour.
- Reduce temp to 300 degrees.
- Bake another 40 minutes.
- Remove pie from oven and cool to room temp.
- Chill 1 hour before cutting.
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Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/chunky-chocolate-pecan-pie-40283 (may not work)