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Pies • A family favorite

2020 Cookbook

German Chocolate Pie

Heat
400°F
Time
30 min
Makes
Not recorded

German Chocolate Pie, preserved in the Brown Family Cookbook 2020.

01

Ingredients

  • 1 4-oz. bar sweet cooking chocolate
  • ½ stick butter (4 Tbsp.)
  • 1 13-oz. can evaporated milk (NOT sweetened condensed)
  • 1 ½ cups flaked coconut
  • 1 cup chopped pecans
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 unbaked deep pie crust

02

Method

  1. 01

    Heat oven to 400 degrees.

  2. 02

    Melt chocolate and butter in microwave. Stir in sugar first, then canned milk, then beaten eggs.

  3. 03

    Place coconut and pecans in pie crust. Pour chocolate mixture over.

  4. 04

    Bake 30 minutes until knife inserted in center of filling comes out clean. Cool slightly. Serve warm or at room temperature, with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.