We love when our customers share their favorite ways to cook with pecans and their favorite recipes. This delicious - yet easy to make - pie recipe comes from Traci Akins a dear friend who worked with Kim as a nurse at Phoebe. Give it a try - it's sure to be a crowd-pleaser!

Chocolate Pecan Pie

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs, slightly beaten

• 1 4oz package of Bakers sweet chocolate
  or - 4 squares of semisweet chocolate
  melted and cooled

• 1&1/2 cup pecan halves
• 1 cup Karo syrup
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons melted butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 unbaked - 9" pie shell

Directions:

In a large glass bowl, stir eggs, syrup, chocolate, sugar, butter, and vanilla until well blended. Stir in pecans. Pour into pie shell. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes. Let cool completely before serving.