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Maple Bacon Chocolate Smackdown, yes, this is a pie that doubles as an event! This gorgeous creature was created for Pie Night November 2011 (click here to view a few pics of Pie Night 2015). I usually don’t remember exact years and dates for pies, but this one was chiseled in. Maybe the maple, bacon and chocolate promotes synapse?
Without going into great deal, I tweaked my Gooey Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie, by adding bacon and maple extract. Score! If there had been a smackdown, this one wins with both hands tied behind its back.
And eating it warm, whoa… incredible; this I highly recommend. It literally melts in your mouth. I never thought I would ever say butter batter is better; but, well just said it. Look at that bite of buttery bake batter with chocolate, bacon, and walnuts in every single bite.
Before baking and after baking. All that rich and gooey goodness is lying in wait for that first slice.
It’s hard to describe the out of body experience your taste buds have with that first bite of salty crisp-chewy bacon, chocolate, nuts and buttery filling. Activate Taste-a-Vision.
Maple Bacon Chocolate Smackdown; WWF winner of pies.
You Will Not get tired of this pie, e.g., every time someone walks by pie in our kitchen, a nearly unnoticeable slice disappears. Pretty soon everyone is vying for that last piece. Saving the last slice for yourself will be victorious! If someone else wants it bad enough they would hide the last slice too. No trophies just because, just sayin’.
Maple Bacon Chocolate Smackdown
Ingredients
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1/2 cup all-purpose (or gluten free flour)
- 1/2 cup pure cane granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup pure cane brown sugar
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 6 to 8 ounces bacon, cooked & crumbled
- 2 teaspoons Mapleline extract
- 1 cup melted butter (cooled)
- One unbaked 9-inch pie shell (for gluten free instructions see notes below)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 F degrees.
- Melt the butter in the microwave, leaving a little un-melted. As it continues to melt the remaining butter it will cool off slightly to be ready for the filling. Set aside on counter.
- In a large bowl, using a hand-held electric mixer, beat the eggs for about 1 to 2 minutes.
- Add in flour and sugars and beat an additional minute.
- Carefully blend in cooled melted butter by hand with a whisk, being careful not to slosh out the butter.
- Stir in chocolate chips, bacon, walnuts, and Mapleline, and pour/spread into pie shell.
- Place cookie sheet with rim/sides on a rack below the pie in oven (as butter will sometimes bubble out a bit at the end of baking).
- Bake 1 hour at 325 degrees. No need to check for if it's done, it is.
