Chocolate Fudge Pie

Ingredients list for Chocolate Fudge Pie

• 1 cup Refined flour (maida)
• + for dusting Powdered sugar 1 cup
• a pinch Salt
• 2 tablespoons Chilled butter
• Fudge -
• ½ cup Dark chocolate chips
• ? cup Cocoa powder
• ¾ cup Refined flour (maida)
• ½ cup Melted butter
• 1 cup Castor sugar (caster sugar)
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
• 2 Eggs
• ½ cup Pecans chopped

Method

1. To prepare short crust pastry, take flour in a bowl. Add powdered sugar, salt and butter and mix well till the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
2. Add sufficient chilled water and knead into a soft dough. Refrigerate for 30-40 minutes.
3. Preheat oven to 180º C.
4. Line an aluminium tart mould with the dough and prick with a fork. Place a parchment paper on top and put some beans over it.
5. Place the mould on a baking tray. Place the tray in the preheated oven and blind bake for fifteen minutes.
6. To prepare fudge, pour melted butter into a bowl. Add castor sugar, vanilla essence and eggs and whisk well.
7. Fold in flour and cocoa powder. Add chocolate chips and pecans and mix well.
8. Pour the mixture over the baked tart shell and level it out. Place the tray back into the preheated oven and bake for twenty to thirty minutes. Remove from oven, cool and demould.
9. Cut into wedges, dust some icing sugar on top and serve.