Chocolate Pecan Pie

 Favorite  Personal Vegetarian

• 1 8-inch deep dish pie shell, unbaked
• 1 – 1½ cups broken pecans
• ½ cup chocolate chips
• ¼ cup butter
• ¾ cups firmly packed brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• ½ cup light corn syrup or molasses
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• (optional) 1 tablespoon rum or brandy
• ½ teaspoon salt

1. Preheat oven to 425°F.
2. Brown pie shell for 5 minutes. Allow to cool.
3. Reduce oven heat to 350°F.
4. Cream butter and brown sugar. Beat in one egg at a time.
5. Add salt, molasses, vanilla, rum or brandy, chocolate chips and pecans.
6. Fill the shell.
7. Bake the pies for about 40 minutes or until a knife inserted in the filling comes out clean.

Tips

• Instead of one deep dish pie shell, you can use two regular.