Fudgy Tar Heel Pie

Name: Fudgy Tar Heel Pie
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1 (9-inch) single-crust, pie dough; 1 cup (6 ounces), semisweet chocolate chips; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1/4 cup, vegetable oil; 2 tablespoons, unsweetened cocoa powder; 3/4 cup packed (5 1/4 ounces), dark brown sugar; 2 , large eggs; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract; 3/4 teaspoon, salt; 1/4 cup (1 1/4 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 1/4 cups, pecans, toasted and chopped coarse

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2013

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Dessert Pies

This brownie pie should be sweet, not saccharine, and deeply fudgy. But whenever we got the texture right, the flavor went south—and vice versa.

SERVES8

TIME1¾ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To correct the cloying sweetness of this brownie pie without sacrificing fudgy texture, we replaced the white sugar with dark brown sugar, which introduces depth and molasses undertones. Upping the vanilla and salt and adding cocoa powder f...

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