Brownie Caramel Walnut Pie

INGREDIENTS:

• 9 inch pie crust
• ¾ C coarsely chopped walnuts
• 20 caramels (unwrapped)
• (1) 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 egg
• 6 oz. semi sweet chocolate morsels
• 4 tbsp. butter

DIRECTIONS:

• preheat oven to 325 degrees
• put pie crust in pie pan
• place ¾ C of walnuts in pie crust evenly
• get a medium sized pot and put the caramels, sweetened condensed milk in on low
• stir the caramels and milk until it is smooth
• as soon as you take the caramel mixture off the stove you need to place it in the pie crust over the walnuts(it cools fast and becomes hard to deal with)
• get a small or medium sized bowl (microwave safe) and add 6 oz semi sweet chocolate morsels with the butter until it is heated up enough to mix together
• in order to make sure the egg does not scramble take a little bit of the chocolate butter mixture and add the egg to it and temper it (temper: The goal here is to slowly bring up the temperature of the eggs without scrambling them)
• add the tempered egg and chocolate to the rest of the chocolate and there you have your “brownie”
• finally add the brownie to the top of the caramel mixture and pop it in the oven for 35-45 minutes

Staff Reporter Camryn Bradford