Kentucky Derby Pie
Rich, decadent amazing pie that tastes like Toll House Cookies in pie form! Great as a company dessert and only takes a few minutes to prepare.
Ingredients
- 2 large eggs slightly beaten
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup Gold Medal UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour Bleached flour toughens baked goods
- 1 cup chocolate chips I prefer semi-sweet chocolate chips over milk-chocolate chips
- 1 cup Fisher pecans full halves are best
- 1 stick Land ‘O Lakes unsalted butter melted and cooled (1/2 cup)
- 1 tsp. McCormick pure vanilla extract
- 1 unbaked pie shell
Instructions
- Melt butter in microwave.
- Cool about five minutes.
- Add sugar, flour, eggs, vanilla and pecans.
- When mixture is no longer warm (from butter being in microwave), add chocolate chips.
- (If you add the chips too early they will melt and the pie will not turn out right).
- Pour into unbaked pie shell.
- Bake at 350° for about 40-45 minutes, until set.
- You may have to cover the crust or top of pie with foil to prevent getting too dark.
Notes
NOTE: It is imperative that the butter be melted and completely cooled before adding the chocolate chips. Otherwise, the chips will melt and not hold their texture.
NOTE: Semi-sweet chocolate chips seem to work better than milk-chocolate chips in this recipe.
NOTE: When I remade the pie I had a really large deep dish (almost 12" pie plate). I ended up having to make two batches of filling to fill the pie plate. This meant I had to cook the pie a LOT longer to get it cooked all the way through (almost a half hour). That's too long for the chocolate chips. They really ended up melting more than they should have. This recipe is better in a small 9" pie plate and baked about 40-45 minutes (no longer!). That way the chocolate chips hold their texture in the pie rather than melting.
NOTE: This pie tastes better with pure vanilla extract rather than imitation vanilla.
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