SNICKERS PIE

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Categories     Chocolate     Dessert     No-Cook     Christmas

Yield 12 Servings

Number Of Ingredients 27

-----CRUST-----
1 1/2 c Graham cracker crumbs
1 tb Sugar
6 tb Unsalted butter (3/4 stick)
-melted
-----FUDGE LAYER-----
6 tb All purpose flour
1/2 ts Baking powder
1/8 ts Salt
1/2 c Unsalted butter (1 stick)
-cut into 8 pieces
4 oz Semisweet chocolate -- chopped
1 oz Unsweetened chocolate
-chopped
1/2 c Sugar
1 lg Egg
1 lg Egg yolk
1 t Vanilla extract
2 c Snickers bars (ab.8 1/2 oz)
-(cut into 1/2-inch pieces)
-----CREAM CHEESE LAYER-----
10 oz Cream cheese -- room temp.
1/3 c Sugar
1 lg Egg
1 t Vanilla extract
2 oz Milk chocolate -- chopped
2 tb Whipping cream

Steps:

  • FOR CRUST: Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350 deg. Butter 9-inch-diameter deep-dish glass pie dish. Combine graham cracker crumbs and sugar in medium bowl. Add melted butter and stir until well incorporated. Press graham mixture evenly into bottom and up sides of prepared dish. Bake until crust is set, about 5 minutes. Cool on rack. Maintain oven temperature. FOR FUDGE LAYER: Sift flour, baking powder and salt into medium bowl. Combine butter semisweet chocolate and unsweetened chocolate in top of double boiler set over simmering water. Stir until melted and smooth. Remove from over water and cool slightly. Using yolk in medium bowl until slightly thickened, about 1 min. Add vanilla and cooled chocolate mixture and mix until well blended. Add dry ingredients and mix just until combined. Pour fudge mixture into crust. Bake until almost set and tester inserted into center comes out with moist batter still attached, covering crust with foil if browning too quickly, about 17 min. Cool on rack 10 min. Arrange Snickers bar pieces evenly over fudge layer. FOR CREAM CHEESE LAYER: Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese and sugar in medium bowl until smooth. Add egg and vanilla and beat just until smooth. Carefully spread mixture in pie. Bake until cream cheese layer is set. (ab. 15 min.) Cool pie on rack Stir milk chocolate and cream in top of double boiler set over simmering water just until melted and smooth. Remove from heat. Dip spoon into melted milk chocolate mixture and drizzle chocolate decoratively over top of pie. Refrigerate until well chilled. (Can be prepared 3 days ahead. Cover loosely with foil and refrigerate.) Serve cold.

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