Chocolate Caramel Pecan Pie Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Use pulsing action to blend 2 cups nuts in blender until finely ground. Mix with granulated sugar and butter; press onto bottom and up side of 9-inch pie plate. Bake 12 to 15 min. or until lightly browned. (If crust puffs up during baking, gently press down with back of spoon.) Cool completely.
• Microwave caramels and 1/3 cup whipping cream in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 2-1/2 to 3 min. or until caramels are completely melted and mixture is well blended, stirring after each minute. Pour into crust. Chop remaining nuts; sprinkle over caramel layer.
• Cook chocolate, remaining cream, powdered sugar and vanilla in saucepan on low heat just until chocolate is completely melted and mixture is well blended, stirring constantly. Pour over pie; spread to cover top of pie. Refrigerate 2 hours.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C.) In a saucepan over low heat, combine caramels, butter and milk. Cook, stirring frequently, until smooth. Remove from heat and set aside.
• In a large bowl, combine sugar, eggs, vanilla and salt. Gradually mix in the melted caramel mixture. Stir in pecans. Pour filling into unbaked pie crust.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 45 to 50 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown. Allow to cool until filling is firm.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F.
• Put 2 cups of the pecans into a food processor or blender and process until finely ground.
• Mix pecans with granulated sugar and melted butter and press into a 9-inch pie pan.
• Bake 12 minutes or until lightly browned (if this puffs up during cooking, just lightly pressed down with a spoon).
• Microwave caramels and 1/3 of the whipping cream on high 3 minutes or until the caramels are melted, stirring often.
• Pour into crust.
• Lightly chop the remaining pecans and sprinkle over the caramel mixture.
• Put the rest of the whipping cream, chocolates, powdered sugar and vanilla in a sauce pan.
• Cook over low heat stirring often until the chocolate is melted.
• Pour the chocolate mixture over the pie and spread to cover.
• Refrigerate at least 2 hours.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Between 2 sheets of wax paper roll out dough into a 14-inch round (about 1/8 inch thick). Transfer dough to a baking sheet and chill 10 minutes. Lift top sheet of wax paper from dough and gently replace on top (this will facilitate removal of paper later). Flip dough over, discarding wax paper now on top, and carefully invert dough into an 11-inch tart pan with a removable fluted rim. Lightly press dough up side of rim, using pieces from overhang to patch any holes. Chill shell 30 minutes, or until firm.
• Line shell with foil, folding over edge to cover pastry entirely, and fill with pie weights or raw rice. Bake shell on a baking sheet in middle of oven 35 minutes and carefully remove foil and weights or rice. If bottom of crust still has patches of translucent undercooked dough, return shell to oven without foil and weights or rice and bake until pastry is completely cooked and golden, 3 to 5 minutes more. Cool shell in pan on a rack.
• Reduce temperature to 350°F.
• Coarsely chop nuts. In a 3-quart heavy saucepan melt butter with brown sugar and honey, stirring, and simmer 1 minute. Stir in nuts and cream. Simmer mixture 1 minute and pour into shell. Bake tart on baking sheet in middle of oven 30 minutes, or until filling is a few shades darker. Cool tart in pan on rack.
• Chop chocolate and in a double boiler or a metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water melt chocolate, stirring until smooth. Cool chocolate slightly and transfer to a pastry bag fitted with a #3 plain tip (slightly smaller than 1/8 inch). (Alternatively, transfer chocolate to a small heavy-duty sealable plastic bag. Squeeze chocolate into one corner of bag and with scissors cut a tiny slice off corner to form a small hole.) Pipe thin lines of chocolate over tart in a back and forth motion to form stripes. Tart may be made 2 days ahead and chilled, covered.
• Serve caramel tart chilled or at room temperature with ice cream and tuiles.

Steps:

• Place caramels in medium microwavable bowl.
• Add milk. Microwave on high 2-1/2 to 3 minutes or until caramels are completely melted, stirring after each minute.
• Stir in pecans. Pour into crust.
• Microwave chocolate in medium microwavable bowl on high 1-1/2 to 2 minutes or until chocolate is completely melted, stirring after each minute.
• Add 2 cups of the cool whip, stir with whisk until well blended.
• Spread evenly over caramel layer in the crust.
• Refrigerate at least 2 hours.
• Let stand at room temp 10-15 min before serving.
• Top with remaining cool whip.

Steps:

• The pie crust is the pre made oreo crust. Caramels are a bag of Kraft caramels unwrapped. I use real butter and real vanilla.
• Toast pecans to bring out the flavor. Watch carefully, not to burn. In oven at 350 or on stove in a cast iron skillet.
• Melt caramels, 1/4 c butter and 1/4 c water- low heat- stir often.
• Mix eggs, beaten well w/ sugar, salt and vanilla.
• Remove caramel from heat and add in nuts then sugar mixture. Stir well and pour into crust. This will totally fill crust. Have crust on a cookie sheet.
• I bake at 300 for about 30-35 minutes. Will be a little jiggly- sets up more when cool.

Steps:

• Mousse:.
• Prepare mousse the day before.
• Sprinkle gelatin over cold water in small bowl and let stand 1 minute to soften.
• Add boiling water and stir until gelatin is completely dissolved and mixture is clear.
• Cool for two minutes.
• In medium size mixing bowl, stir together sugar and cocoa.
• Add whipping cream and vanilla.
• With hand mixer, beat (medium speed) until stiff.
• Pour in gelatin mixture and beat until well blended.
• Cover and refrigerate.
• Makes about 1 cup.
• Thick Caramel Sauce:.
• Heat water, sugar, corn syrup and lemon juice on high heat in a heavy-bottomed 2 or 3 quart saucepan.
• When sugar starts to melt, stir constantly with a whisk.
• As soon as all of the sugar crystals have melted (the liquid will be dark amber in color), add the butter to the pan (the mixture will foam up considerably).
• Continue to whisk briskly until the butter has melted, then remove from heat.
• Add the cream to the pan (the mixture will foam up considerably), and then the salt and continue to whisk until sauce is smooth.
• Let cool in the pan for a couple minutes, and then pour into a glass mason jar and let sit to cool to room temperature.
• Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
• Crust:.
• Melt butter.
• Combine graham cracker crumbs, butter, sugar and nutmeg.
• Press into a 9 inch pie plate or 8 inch square cake pan.
• Chill in refrigerator 2 hours before filling.
• Filling:.
• Allow cream cheese to soften.
• Beat cream cheese, sour cream and lemon juice together and slowly beat in powdered sugar.
• Lightly toast pecans, stir into caramel and pour into bottom of crust.
• Gently spread cream cheese mix over the caramel.
• Gently spread mousse over cream cheese.
• Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Serve.