Snickers Pie
List of Ingredients
1/2 cup unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces
4 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
1 ounce unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup plus 1/3 cup sugar (divided use)
2 large eggs (divided use)
1 large egg yolk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract (divided use)
6 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 cups Snickers bars, broken into 1/2-inch pieces (about 11 ounces of candy)
10 ounces cream cheese
Recipe
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Make the crust and bake for 5 minutes.
Leave oven on.
For the fudge layer, melt butter with the chocolate in a saucepan
over low heat until smooth. Set aside to cool. In a medium mixing
bowl, beat together 1/2 cup sugar and 1 large egg plus egg yolk. Add
1 teaspoon vanilla extract and cooled chocolate. In another bowl,
sift together flour, baking powder and salt, and add to chocolate
mixture. Pour into crust and bake for 17 minutes. Cool 10 minutes.
Leave oven on.
Place Snickers pieces on top of fudge layer.
To make the cream cheese layer, mix together cream cheese, 1/3 cup
sugar, 1 large egg and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract in a small bowl;
spread on top of the Snickers bars. Bake 15 minutes longer. Drizzle
with topping and chill. Makes 8 servings
* CRUST: Mix together 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs, 1 tablespoon
sugar and 6 tablespoons unsalted butter. Press onto the bottom and up
the sides of a pie pan.
* TOPPING: Stir 2 ounces of milk chocolate and 2 tablespoons whipping
cream together in a small saucepan over low heat until chocolate is
melted and blended.
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