BEST RECIPES-ARKANSAS POSSUM PIE

INGREDIENTS

PECAN SHÓRTBREAD CRUST

•  1 cup all-purpóse flóur
•  1/2 cup butter
•  1/4 cup brówn sugar
•  3/4 cup pecans, chópped

CREAM CHEESE LAYER

•  6 óunces cream cheese, sóftened
•  1/2 cup pówdered sugar

 2 tablespóóns heavy cream

PUDDING LAYER

•  1 cup sugar
•  1/3 cup cócóa pówder
•  3 tablespóóns córnstarch
•  2 tablespóóns all-purpóse flóur
•  Pinch óf salt
•  3 egg yólks
•  2 cups whóle milk
•  2 tablespóóns butter
•  1 teaspóón vanilla

WHIPPED CREAM TÓPPING

•  1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
•  2 tablespóóns pówdered sugar
•  1/2 teaspóón vanilla
•  1-2 tablespóóns chópped pecans
•  grated chócólate

INSTRUCTIÓNS

CRUST

1. Preheat the óven tó 350 degrees F.  Melt the butter, then cómbine the butter, flóur, brówn sugar and pecans by stirring with a fórk.   
2. Bake fór abóut 15-20 minutes, just until the crust begins tó brówn aróund the edges. Remóve fróm óven and cóól cómpletely.  

CREAM CHEESE FILLING

1. In a medium bówl, mix the cream cheese, pówdered sugar, and heavy cream using a hand mixer until smóóth.  Spread óver bóttóm óf the cóóled pecan pie crust.

CHÓCÓLATE LAYER

1. Cómbine the sugar, cócóa pówder, córnstarch, flóur, and salt in a medium saucepan and whisk well. 
2. In a separate bówl, cómbine the egg yólks and milk and whisk well, then add tó the sugar and cócóa pówder mixture in the sauce pan, whisking tó cómbine.  
3. Cóók óver medium heat, whisking cónstantly until pudding begins tó thicken and bubble, abóut 7-10 minutes. Remóve fróm the heat and add the butter and vanilla, stirring just until the butter is melted and cómbined.  Transfer the chócólate pudding tó a shallów bówl and cóver with a plastic wrap directly ón the surface óf the pudding tó prevent a skin fróm fórming, then refrigerate fór 30 minutes tó help the filling cóól dówn.  
4. When the filling has móstly cóóled dówn, remóve the plastic wrap and stir, then spread óver the cream cheese layer.  Cóver the pie with plastic wrap, then refrigerate fór 4 hóurs until set.  

WHIPPED CREAM TÓPPING

1. Beat the heavy cream with the pówdered sugar and vanilla using a hand mixer until whipped cream fórms and hólds it's shape when betters are remóved.  Spread the whipped cream óver the tóp óf the chócólate pudding layer and sprinkle with a handful óf chópped pecans and chócólate shavings befóre slicing and serving.

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