Chocolate Pecan Pie

Name: Chocolate Pecan Pie
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1/4 cup, ice water; 4 teaspoons, sour cream; 1 1/4 cups (6¼ ounces; 177 grams), all-purpose flour; 1 1/2 teaspoons, granulated sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into ¼-inch pieces and frozen for 15 minutes; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 2 ounces (57 grams), unsweetened chocolate, chopped fine; 3/4 cup, light corn syrup; 3/4 cup packed (5¼ ounces; 149 grams), brown sugar; 3 , large eggs; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 2 cups, pecans, toasted and chopped coarse; 1 cup, heavy cream, chilled; 3 tablespoons, packed brown sugar; 1-2 tablespoons, bourbon; 1/2 teaspoon, vanilla extract; Pinch, table salt

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By Cecelia Jenkins

Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2019

Desserts or Baked Goods

We love pecan pie, but we were looking for something more.

SERVES8

TIME3 hours, plus 6 hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

UPDATE: This recipe has been slightly reformulated to be more foolproof since its initial publication. The revision you see here was published in November 2020. Our goal for this pie was a creamy, smooth, and sliceable chocolate filling (no...

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