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Sure, it’s not July anymore. And pie should probably be a “sometimes food.”

serving-browniepie

But this one just looks so darn irresistible

Brownie Pie
Author: Betty Crocker
Ingredients
  • Stir-n-Roll Pastry
  • 1 1/3 cups sifted flour
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1/3 cup cooking (salad) oil
  • 3 tbsp. cold whole milk
  • Filling
  • 2 oz. unsweetened chocolate
  • 2 tbsp. butter
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup dark corn syrup
  • 3/4 cup pecan halves
Instructions
Stir-n-Roll Pastry for 9-in. One-Crust Pie
  1. Mix together flour and salt.
  2. Pour into measuring cup (but don’t stir together) cooking oil and milk. Then pour all at once into flour.
  3. Stir until mixed. Press with hands into smooth ball. Flatten slightly.
  4. Place between 2 sheets of waxed paper (12-in. square). Roll out gently until circle reaches edges of paper. (Waxed paper will not slip while rolling pastry if table top under paper is slightly damp.)
  5. Peel off top paper. If dough tears, mend without moistening by pressing edges together… or by pressing a scrap of pastry lightly over tear.
  6. Lift paper and pastry by top corners; they will cling together. Place paper-side-up in 9-in. pie pan. Carefully peel off paper. Gently ease and fit pastry into pan. Build up fluted edge.
Filling
  1. Melt together unsweetened chocolate and butter over hot water.
  2. Beat together thoroughly with rotary beater eggs, sugar, the chocolate mixture, and dark corn syrup.
  3. Mix in pecan halves.
  4. Pour into pastry-lined pan. Bake 40 to 50 minutes in quick moderate oven (375°) just until set.
  5. Serve slightly warm, or cold, garnished with ice cream or whipped cream.
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recipe-browniepie

I’d had this in mind as a possibility for a while, but kept putting it off — putting brownie in a pie crust just seemed too decadent, somehow.

chocolate

But I really do like the Stir-n-Roll pie crust concept.

syrup

I’ve tried it before for my own blog, and it is a delightfully simple recipe. Stir in oil/milk.

stir-n-roll

Roll out.

puffy

Dump in pie filling of choice and bake. (And get an oddly puffy pie… but that is hardly the crust’s fault, is it?)

tasting-mellow

“So what is this?”

“Brownie pie! Should be amazing, because brownies.”

tasting-confusion

“That’s weird, it tastes like pecan pie.”

I tried a bite. “Whoa… yeah. Maybe a chocolate pecan pie, but that’s definitely not a brownie.”

There was some more eating.

“You look sort of angry at this pie. Can you try to look cheerfully confused?”

tasting-philosoraptor

“Here, now I look like Philosoraptor.”

“… No.”

Verdict: Terrific pecan pie.

The tasting notes:

Without knowing the recipe title, nobody would guess this is a brownie. Same syrupy flavor of a pecan pie, but with a chocolatey layer on top — this is clearly a chocolate pecan pie. Somehow the nearly flavorless corn syrup overwhelmed the chocolate. In any case, the Stir-n-Roll crust does work nicely with a filling this sweet.

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