#2170 - Chocolate Pecan Pie

(by Shirley McNevich)

1 - 4oz. bar Baker's German sweet chocolate
1 unbaked 9" pie dough
3 TBSP butter
1/3 cup white sugar
1 cup Kayro lite corn syrup
3 beaten eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans

Grease a pie plate--insert pie dough, spray the inside of the dough with Pam and flute the edges. In a saucepan over low heat add chocolate and butter--stir while cooking until melted and smooth, then remove from heat. In a separate saucepan over medium heat add white sugar and corn syrup--stir/cook until boiling and sugar is dissolved. Once boiling, stir/cook for 2 minutes. Remove from heat--add chocolate mixture to sugar mixture--stir until mixed. In a large bowl add beaten eggs--slowly pour chocolate mixture into beaten eggs while stirring. Add vanilla and chopped pecans--stir. Pour mixture into prepared pie dough. Place pie on a cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 45-50 minutes.