Best Recipes-arkansas Possum Pie

INGREDIENTSPECAN SHÓRTBREAD CRUST
- 1 cup all-purpóse flóur
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/4 cup brówn sugar
- 3/4 cup pecans chópped
CREAM CHEESE LAYER
- 6 óunces cream cheese sóftened
- 1/2 cup pówdered sugar
2 tablespóóns heavy creamPUDDING LAYER
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup cócóa pówder
- 3 tablespóóns córnstarch
- 2 tablespóóns all-purpóse flóur
- Pinch óf salt
- 3 egg yólks
- 2 cups whóle milk
- 2 tablespóóns butter
- 1 teaspóón vanilla
WHIPPED CREAM TÓPPING
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 tablespóóns pówdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspóón vanilla
- 1-2 tablespóóns chópped pecans
- grated chócólate
INSTRUCTIÓNSCRUST
- Preheat the óven tó 350 degrees F. Melt the butter then cómbine the butter flóur brówn sugar and pecans by stirring with a fórk.
- Bake fór abóut 15-20 minutes just until the crust begins tó brówn aróund the edges. Remóve fróm óven and cóól cómpletely.
CREAM CHEESE FILLING
- In a medium bówl mix the cream cheese pówdered sugar and heavy cream using a hand mixer until smóóth. Spread óver bóttóm óf the cóóled pecan pie crust.
CHÓCÓLATE LAYER
- Cómbine the sugar cócóa pówder córnstarch flóur and salt in a medium saucepan and whisk well.
- In a separate bówl cómbine the egg yólks and milk and whisk well then add tó the sugar and cócóa pówder mixture in the sauce pan whisking tó cómbine.
- Cóók óver medium heat whisking cónstantly until pudding begins tó thicken and bubble abóut 7-10 minutes. Remóve fróm the heat and add the butter and vanilla stirring just until the butter is melted and cómbined. Transfer the chócólate pudding tó a shallów bówl and cóver with a plastic wrap directly ón the surface óf the pudding tó prevent a skin fróm fórming then refrigerate fór 30 minutes tó help the filling cóól dówn.
- When the filling has móstly cóóled dówn remóve the plastic wrap and stir then spread óver the cream cheese layer. Cóver the pie with plastic wrap then refrigerate fór 4 hóurs until set.
WHIPPED CREAM TÓPPING
- Beat the heavy cream with the pówdered sugar and vanilla using a hand mixer until whipped cream fórms and hólds it s shape when betters are remóved. Spread the whipped cream óver the tóp óf the chócólate pudding layer and sprinkle with a handful óf chópped pecans and chócólate shavings befóre slicing and serving.
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