Recipe - Chriss Pumpkin Pecan Pie

2 cup Firmly packed brown sugar
4 tablespoon Butter softened
1 1/3 cup Pecan halves
6 Eggs
4 Egg yolks
2 cup Pumpkin puree
2 tablespoon Flour
One half teaspoon Ground cloves
One half teaspoon Ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon Salt
4 cup Whipping cream
Three fourths cup Confectioner's sugar for
Garnish

~Tart Pastry 1 One half cups flour 1 teaspoon sugar One half teaspoon salt
One half cup unsalted butter chilled and cut into 1 egg 2
tablespoons cold water

1. Prepare 2 unbaked tart shells. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line
unbaked shells with aluminum foil and fill with dried beans or metal pie
weights. Bake 12 minutes; remove foil and beans. Set shells aside to cool
completely. Mix 2/3 cup brown sugar and butter. Spread half of mixture in
bottom of each of the cooled tart shells. Dot each shell with half the
pecans and bake 10 minutes; set aside.

2. While pastry bakes, mix eggs, egg yolks, pumpkin puree, flour, remaining
brown sugar, cloves, cinnamon, salt, and 2 cups whipping cream.

3. Reduce oven to 325 degrees F. Place an equal amount of filling in each
pastry shell; bake until a knife inserted into pie is dry when removed
(about 45 minutes). Cool.

4. Beat remaining cream with confectioners' sugar and pipe onto pies at
serving time.

Makes two 8inch pies, serves 12 to 16.

Tart Pastry

1. Place flour, sugar, and salt in a medium mixing bowl or in work bowl of
food processor. Cut butter into flour using a pastry blender or 2 knives,
or with quick onandoff bursts if using food processor. Beat together egg
and the water. When flour mixture resembles coarse crumbs, stir in
eggwater mixture; mix only until dough begins to hold together.

2. Divide dough in half and press each half into an 8inch tart pan.
Refrigerate for 1 hour or wrap carefully and freeze for up to 1 month. Use
as directed in recipe.

Makes one 11inch tart shell, two 8inch tart shells, or fourteen 3inch
miniature tart shells.

Recipe By : the California Culinary Academy

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