Chocolate Pie With Caramelized Almonds

• 2/3 cup butter
• 2 3/8 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 cup icing sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 7 11/16 tablespoons almond sticks
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 1 1/3 cups dark chocolate cut into small pieces
• 11/16 cup almond milk
• 2 7/16 tablespoons butter soft

1. In a mixer bowl, knead the butter, add the sugars, and a pinch of salt. Stir in the egg. Gradually pour in the flour, and mix.
2. Form a ball, cover with stretched plastic wrap, and refrigerate overnight.
3. Remove from refrigerator, and let dough rest for about 20 minutes at room temperature before spreading it on a floured surface.
4. Spread the dough in a pie pan, cut off the edges.
5. Refrigerate for about 30 minutes before baking covered with parchment paper.
6. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
7. Remove from refrigerator, and bake for 15 to 20 minutes at 180 C.
8. In a pan, heat almonds and sugar to get a caramel and coat almonds.
9. Place almonds on parchment paper to cool and harden.
10. Boil milk in a saucepan, add chopped chocolate.
11. Let rest for 3 minutes, stir with a wooden spoon and add butter.
12. Wait for 5 minutes before pouring ganache in the pie pastry.
13. Place half the almonds on the pastry dough, cover with chocolate ganache.
14. Let rest at room temperature for 2 hours.
15. Just before serving, arrange the remaining caramelized almonds on top of the pie for decoration.
16. Don't let the ganache harden in a cool place, it might crack. On the other hand, once it's made, you may keep it in the refrigerator until it's ready to serve.

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Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Chocolate-Pie-with-Caramelized-Almonds-782303 (may not work)