Southern Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie

Total Time: 56 mins Preparation Time: 6 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup dark corn syrup
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted with
• 2 ounces semisweet chocolate
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups pecan halves, toasted*
• 2 tablespoons bourbon (or any liqour you like)
• 1 pie crust

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees. in bowl, or blender is how my mom always made pecan pies, beat eggs with fork. add sugar, corn syrup, butter w/chocolate, vanilla, and bourbon. stir till well blended. this is why the blender is a great and easy idea.
• 2 pour into pie crust. stir pecans into mixture, till all are incorporated, or all covered with goo :).
• 3 bake for 50-55 min, or when knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• 4 *to toast pecans put into dry skillet on medium-high heat. shake skillet around till they become brown and fragant and you can really notice their color change. this will take about 7-10 minute.