How to Make a Pecan Pie Recipe with Bourbon and Chocolate
Kick up your pie baking game by learning How to Make a Pecan Pie Recipe with Bourbon and Chocolate that is loaded with flavor!
Servings: 8
Prep Time: 45 minutesminutes
Cook Time: 1 hourhour
Refrigerate, Freeze then Cool at room temp: 7 hourshours
Total Time: 8 hourshours45 minutesminutes
Ingredients
For the Crust:
2 ½cupsof Bob’s Red Mill All-Purpose Flour
12tablespoonsof cold unsalted butter
4tablespoonsof cold rendered bacon fat
1teaspoonof Kosher salt
1cupof ice cold water
For the Filling:
1cupof corn syrup
½cupof packed light brown sugar
¼cupof melted unsalted butter
3eggs
1tablespoonof bourbon
zest of 1 orange
2teaspoonof vanilla
4cupsof pecan halves
1cupof large chocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350°.
Crust: In a food processor combine the flour, butter, bacon fat and salt and process on low speed until the butter is the size of rice.
Slowly drizzle in the water until it becomes mealy. Remove the dough, form it into 2 discs and rest the dough in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
Remove the dough and roll each of them out. Form one of them over a pie tin and the other one use as the outer braided crust.
Slice 9 thin slices from the rolled out dough. Pinch 3 of them together at the top using water and overlap them to form a braid. Repeat with the other 6 pieces and then mold them together on the outside of the pie shell.
Freeze the pie dough.
Filling: In a large bowl whisk together the corn syrup, brown sugar, melted butter, eggs, bourbon, orange zest and vanilla and set aside.
Remove the pie crust from the freezer and add in the pecan halves and chocolate chips and pour the corn syrup mixture over top.
Bake in the oven at 350° for 60 minutes and then cool it at room temperature for 5 hours.