Paula Deen's Old Fashioned Fudge Pie

By candygurl88

Ingredients

• 2-ounces semisweet chocolate
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 (9-inch) unbaked pie crust (I use a Graham Cracker crust)

Details

Servings 1
Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 35mins
Adapted from sugarpiesfood.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Melt the chocolate and butter together in a heavy saucepan over low heat. Remove the pan from the heat and add the sugar, then the eggs (don't forget to temper the eggs, see note below, very important!); beat well. Pour the filling into the pie crust and bake for 20 minutes or until just set. Serve warm or cold, with ice cream or whipped cream.

So, here's a tip when cooking with eggs. If you have to beat eggs and then add to a hot mixture you must temper the eggs so they don't cook and turn into scrambled eggs! It's really easy to do. You just beat your eggs in a small bowl. Then take a spoon or ladle and add a little bit of the hot mixture to the eggs BEFORE you add them to the hot mixture. Just a little bit is all that is needed. Then stir up the eggs so that their temperature rises. When you add them to your hot mixture now they won't cook immediately and become scrambled eggs! Easy!