Chocolate Lover's Peanut Pie

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Title: Chocolate Lover's Peanut Pie
Categories: Pies, Chocolate
Yield: 1 servings

Pastry:
1 1/2 c All-purpose flour
1/2 ts Salt
1 Unsalted butter; chilled
And cut into pieces
About 1/4 cup ice water
Filling:
4 oz Semisweet chocolate; chopped
3 lg Eggs
1 c Light corn syrup
1/3 c Granulated sugar
2 tb Melted unsalted butter
1 ts Vanilla extract
1 1/2 c Unsalted peanuts
= 6 ozs

Pastry: in a medium bowl, stir together flour and salt.
Using pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture resembles
coarse meal. Tossing with a fork, gradually sprinkle in ice
water, mix just until dough is moist enough to hold
together when pinched between the thumb and forefinger.
Gather dough into thick disk. Wrap in wax paper and chill
for 1 hour or overnight.
On lightly floured work surface, roll out pastry into
11-12 inch circle about 1/8 inch thick. Ease dough into 9
inch pie plate. Roll excess dough over to form a rope.
Crimp dough decoratively. Place pie plate on baking sheet.
Filling: preheat oven to 350. Position rack in center of
oven. In top of double boiler over hot water, melt
chocolate and cool until tepid, about 10 minutes.
In a medium bowl, whisk eggs well. Add cooled
chocolate, corn syrup, sugar, melted butter and vanilla and
whisk well. Stir in peanuts and pour mixture into prepared
pie shell. Bake until a knife inserted halfway between
center and edge of pie comes out clean, 50-60 minutes. Cool
pie completely on wire cake rack.
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