Recipe: Snickers Pie (with fudge layer and cream cheese layer)

LIKE SNICKERS PIE

CRUST:
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 tablespoon sugar
6 tablespoon margarine, melted
FUDGE LAYER:
6 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup margarine, cut into 8 pieces
4 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
1 ounce unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups Snickers bars (about 8 1/2 oz), cut into 1/2-inch pieces
CREAM CHEESE LAYER:
10 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
1/3 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 ounces milk chocolate, chopped
2 tablespoons whipping cream

CRUST:
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch diameter deep-dish glass pie plate.

Combine graham cracker crumbs and sugar in a medium bowl. Add melted margarine and stir until well incorporated. Press graham mixture evenly into bottom and up sides of prepared dish.

Bake until crust is set, about 5 minutes. Cool on rack. Maintain oven temperature.

FUDGE LAYER:
Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into medium bowl; set aside.

Combine margarine, semisweet and unsweetened chocolate in top of double boiler set over simmering water. Stir until melted and smooth. Remove and cool slightly.

Using electric mixture, beat sugar, egg, and egg yolk in medium bowl until slightly thickened, about 1 minute. Add vanilla and cooled chocolate mixture and mix until well blended. Add dry ingredients and mix just until combined. Pour fudge mixture into crust.

Bake until almost set and tester inserted into center comes out with moist batter still attached, covering crust if browning too quickly, about 17 minutes. Cool on rack for 10 minutes. Maintain oven temperature.

CREAM CHEESE MIXTURE:
Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese and sugar in medium bowl until smooth. Add egg and vanilla; beat just until smooth.

Arrange Snickers pieces over fudge layer. Carefully spread cream cheese mixture in pie.

Bake until cream cheese layer is set, about 15 minutes. Cool on rack.

Source: Ann Miner, 1995