German Chocolate Pie Recipe (Sheran's)

By nanapuddin

Ingredients

• 1 pkg (4 oz.) Bakers German Chocolate
• 1/4 cup butter (not margarine)
• 1 2/3 cup evaporated milk (Pet 13 oz.)
• 1 1/2 cup sugar 3 TBS cornstarch
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla -
• Topping Ingredients
• 1 stick butter (not margarine)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup evaporated milk (Pet)
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 cup pecans
• 1/4 cup coconut

Details

Servings 8
Adapted from texansunited.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Melt chocolate with butter in microwave. Gradually add milk and set aside.  Mix sugar, cornstarch, and salt together. Add chocolate mixture and mix. Add eggs and mix. Add vanilla. Pour into unbaked pie shell and bake until puffed and brown, appx 45 min ( make sure pie is set).

topping:

Melt butter in microwave and pour into a heavy pan. Mix sugar milk egg yolks together and add to butter. Cook over med. heat until bubbly and thickened, stirring constantly. Add 1 cup of pecans and 1/4 cup of coconut and spread over pie.

When you need to make cookies and just don’t have the time,...

You forgot to tell when to add the vanilla extract, which should be right after you add the eggs to the sugar/cornstarch mix.

I’ll add them to the ingredient list. Looks like they are in the last paragraph, but I do need to get into ingredients. Thanks for pointing it out!
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I have been looking for this recipe for years! My husbands mother used to make it, but then she died unexpectedly — she “fell asleep” at a Dolly Partin concert in Alpharetta in 2011 and didn’t wake up. Nice way to go, isn’t it? Anyway, It was just 3 months after she threw a beautiful wedding for us, so, though I’d eaten this pie dozens of times, she hadn’t yet shared the recipe with me. My Billy really misses this pie. I think I’ll surprise him on our anniversary next month. I can’t thank you enough.

Made this pie today, but as a novice was sure when it was set. Also do you allow the pie to cool prior to adding the topping or does it matter that it’s hot?