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Southern Fudge Pie

This recipe for Southern Fudge Pie is for all you choco-holics out there. I had the good fortune recently to be given a dessert cookbook to review. And the fact that it was from Southern Living gave me a clue on how delicious the recipes on the inside were gonna be.Southern Chocolate Fudge Pie with chocolate syrup on white plate
I have so many recipes from Southern Living stashed away in my cookbooks and folders. Many of them are recipes cut out from magazines over the years. I don’t care how fancy we get with technology with ebooks, and iPads and phones or whatever, nothing replaces holding paper in my hands.

Southern Living Cookbook

I love books. I love the feel of them. I love flipping through pages. Technology is wonderful and it makes so many things accessible to so many folks, but sometimes you just want to see and feel things on paper, or is it just me?Southern Living Classic Southern Desserts cookbook

Classic Southern Recipes

So anyhow, when I got my hands on this cookbook, I could not wait to flip through to see the recipes.  Normally, when I get a cookbook, I flip straight to the back where the dessert recipes are. I always start there. But this book, I could start right from the beginning because it is all about desserts.  Correction: it’s all about Classic Southern desserts.
Southern Living Classic Southern Desserts cookbook

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Everything from Fresh Georgia Peach Pie to New Orleans King Cake. Need a recipe for Red Velvet Cake, it’s in here. Or maybe a classic Lemon Bar, that’s in here too.  All those classic, timeless, southern recipes are all in one book. There are so many to choose from and this book is beautifully illustrated. Each recipe is accompanied by gorgeous photos. Some recipes even have short tutorials on the bottom to help explain the directions further.
Southern Living Classic Southern Desserts cookbook

Chocolate Pie Delight

Bottom line: if you’re a fan of southern desserts and you love a good cookbook like I do, then this is a beautiful and reliable cookbook to add to your collection. And today, I thought I’d share one of the recipes from the book. I had such a hard time choosing so I let my boys decide, and this is what they chose. Hello chocolate!Chocolate Southern Fudge Pie recipe from The Country Cook
Ingredients:
3/4 cup butter
3 (1-oz.) unsweetened chocolate squares
3 large eggs
1 -1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp. vanilla extract
3/4 cup chopped pecans (divided use)
toppings: vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Spray a 9-inch pie plate with nonstick cooking spray. butter and unsweetened chocolate squares in a saucepan
 Stirring often until melted (then take off heat). Beat eggs at medium speed with an electric or stand mixer for 5 minutes.
beaten eggs in a bowl
 Gradually add sugar, beating until blended. Then gradually add chocolate mixture.melted chocolate and butter with beaten eggs in a bowl with an electric mixer
 Then add flour and vanilla extract, beating until blended.all purpose flour added to chocolate batter in a bowl
If you’re using a stand mixer, it’s important that you continually scrape down the sides so everything mixes evenly. Stir in 1/2 cup chopped pecans.
chopped pecans added to fudge pie batter
 Pour batter into pie plate.chocolate fudge pie batter poured into pie dish
 Bake at 350F for 35-40 minutes. The center should be firm when finished. Let pie cool.fully baked fudge pie in a glass pie dish
Then slice and serve with ice cream, chocolate syrup and remaining chopped pecans. I didn’t get a picture of this with the drizzled chocolate syrup on top. But we did eat it that way and it added another chocolate-y kick to this that we loved.Chocolate Fudge Pie with vanilla ice cream on top, fork
Enjoy!
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Southern Fudge Pie recipe
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Southern Fudge Pie
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
40 mins
Total Time
50 mins
 
Southern Fudge Pie is a super easy but delicious homemade chocolate pie made with unsweetened chocolate squares, sugar, flour, butter, eggs and it has no crust! Top with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup for a simple, scrumptious dessert!
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: fudge pie
Servings: 6
Calories: 652 kcal
Author: Brandie @ The Country Cook
Ingredients
  • 3/4 cup salted butter
  • 3 1 oz unsweetened chocolate squares
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup chopped pecans divided use
  • Toppings: vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, chopped pecans
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
  2. Spray a 9-inch pie plate with nonstick cooking spray.
  3. In a small saucepan, over low heat, cook butter and chocolate.
  4. Stirring often until melted (then take off heat).
  5. Beat eggs at medium speed with an electric or stand mixer for 5 minutes.
  6. Gradually add sugar, beating until blended.
  7. Then gradually add chocolate mixture.
  8. Then add flour and vanilla extract, beating until blended.
  9. If you're using a stand mixer, it's important that you continually scrape down the sides so everything mixes evenly.
  10. Stir in 1/2 cup chopped pecans.
  11. Pour into pie plate.
  12. Bake at 350F for 35-40 minutes.
  13. The center should be firm when finished.
  14. Let pie cool.
  15. Then slice and serve with ice cream, chocolate syrup and remaining chopped pecans.

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Nutrition Facts
Southern Fudge Pie
Amount Per Serving
Calories 652 Calories from Fat 378
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 42g 65%
Saturated Fat 20g 100%
Cholesterol 142mg 47%
Sodium 238mg 10%
Potassium 227mg 6%
Total Carbohydrates 68g 23%
Dietary Fiber 4g 16%
Sugars 50g
Protein 7g 14%
Vitamin A 16.6%
Vitamin C 0.2%
Calcium 4.5%
Iron 21.8%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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  2. I'm from Denmark – and my favorite dessert is also the word we try to make every foreigner pronounce for the fun of it 🙂
    It's called RØDGRØD MED FLØDE which literally means "red pudding with cream".
    It's made out of all our Danish summer berries – such as cherries, strawberries, raspberries, redcurrant etc.
    They're all boiled together and served with ice cold cream.
    It's yummy all around the year 🙂 and to all our Danes around the world, the red and white colors symbolize our beloved flag.
    Thanks a lot for sharing your blog! Have a nice day

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  3. My favorite dessert changes based on my mood and tastebuds at the time. I bake/decorate cakes for a living so I'm always around cakes, but rarely get to make something that's just dessert. Probably an all time favorite would be a delicious carrot cake, and I'll never turn away a piece of pecan pie.

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  13. My favorite us Homemade Apple pie fresh out if the oven with homemade double vanilla ice cream….mmmmmm

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  17. I will drive across town for a great piece of key lime pie. I love Southern Living, so thanks for a great giveaway.

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  22. I LOVE pecan pie i guess it's the southern gal in me , i'm a misplaced Texan moved to the city and my children nor my husband like pecan pie but that doesn't stop me from making it every year on the holidays that just means more for me !! ha ha !! – elizabeth Iannazzi

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  23. My favorite dessert is always going to be my Pecan Pie!! You can take a Southerner out of the South, but you can't take their Pecan Pie away!!!!

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  26. Hmmmm all time favorite dessert,that is a hard one..smile…I'll go with peach dumpings or maybe pumkin roll or chocolate chip cookies.Oh too hard.Ok Grandma's rice pudding.LoL.Count me on the wonderful giveaway.Warm Blessings!~Amy
    cottageprims@hotmail.com

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  28. Liked on the Southern Living FB page and now following you on Twitter too. This pie looks amazing, now to try make it smaller so I don't have to eat it all myself 🙂

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  31. My favorite dessert is Rum Cake! … But this may change after tonight as we are finally trying the Banana Cream Poke Cake to celebrate my daughter's return to High School… now as a Sophmore! 🙂

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  43. My favorite dessert is impossible to choose…. I love sweets. Strawberry short cake reminds me of my daddy, pound cake makes me think of my Memaw, and banana pudding always reminds me of my mama.

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  45. My favorite changes with the season. Right now we're loving shortcakes-strawberry, marionberry, peach….
    Bread pudding is awesome, too!

    daabmab2010 @ gmail.com

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  50. I love the old fashioned banana pudding, chocolate lava cakes, and pecan pies!! Quite the variety!!

    I love your blog, I have tried many recipes and my family has loved them all. Thanks for great recipes!!

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  53. So many sweet things I like. But I will say probably my top is Creme Brulee and Brownies with milk chocolate frosting.

    msgb245 at gmail dot com

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  66. My all time favorite: My Grandma Ruby's lemon meringue pie. She's long since gone to Glory, but I can still taste that flaky crust, smooth filling, and fluffy meringue as though she'd made one yesterday.

    She was a gem, my Grandma Ruby was… and I miss her every day.

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  77. I love the apple dumpling from Cracker Barrel. It reminds me of apple crisp which is one of my favorite desserts. I also love white cake. I could go on and on. I have a horrible sweet tooth so there aren't many desserts that I don't like.
    tmk22911@gmail.com

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  82. I don't know if i can pick just ONE!! I guess it would be everything with sugar and butter in it! LOL OK i will pick CHEESECAKE! Thank for the chance!

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  86. My favorite dessert is my mother in laws carrot cake with creme cheese frosting. She always makes it for my birthday.

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  93. Silly me – I'm the unknown comment from 5:30 pm – I said to sign in with my Google account, but I guess it didn't. I liked Southern Living on Facebook and Twitter and I left the comment at 5:30. My email address is panyky@gmail.com and believe me, I would LOVE to win this cookbook!
    Here is the comment I left without my name – sorry!
    I have a funny feeling that this Fudge Pie is going to be my all-time favorite dessert! I do love a good brownie and this just reminds me of a giant fudge brownie made into a pie.

    August 27, 2012 5:30 PM

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  94. My favorite dessert is Cracker Barrel Coca Cola Cake with Blue Bell homemade vanilla ice cream!
    Smhasting (at) gmail ( dot) com.

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  106. I came straight home and made this. It's in the oven now, but it almost didn't make it there. I could've eaten the batter, but I decided to wait for the end result.

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  115. I LOVE Pecan Pie. I liked Southern Living on FB and followed Souther Living on Twitter. By the way…I am making the Fudge Pie for tonight's desert. 🙂

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  116. My favorite dessert is Chocolate Pecan Torte with Strawberry Buttercream Filling. A lot of work to make but worth it.
    Karen

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  119. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe of fudge pie. It looks delicious and I love anything chocolate. Dessert of any kind is my weakness.

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  122. My favorite dessert is coconut layer cake, specially when my Mom made it for my birthday! I make it, but never quite like Mom's. The kind with sour cream in the filling & let it sit in the fridge for 3 days for the flavors to blend! It's wonderful!

    Love your blog! Susan s.jjrea@hotmail.com

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  131. I have to say my favorite is the"Southern Pecan Pie" Thanks for the chance to win. I LOVE Southern Living and have been a huge fan for several years!

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  132. I have so many it is hard to choose 🙂 I love cheesecake with cherries on top.. I also love chewy brownies with frosting, and I love just basic chocolate cake with chocolate frosting… YUMMY.. Amanda (durham_81@yahoo.com)

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  140. I have a funny feeling that this Fudge Pie is going to be my all-time favorite dessert! I do love a good brownie and this just reminds me of a giant fudge brownie made into a pie.

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  141. I LOVE S'more anything, but my all time favorite dessert is creme brulee. I haven't mastered the making of it yet, but I am a total pro at devouring it!!

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  153. Would love, love, love the cookbook! Nothing better than a southern dessert like lemon chess pie 🙂 If I don't win, I'll sure be looking to buy it.

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  154. My favorite dessert is a tie between coconut cream pie, pound cake, coconut cake (made with fresh coconut) and banana pudding! I LOVE desserts 🙂

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  157. One of my all time favorite desserts is called Chocolate Raspberry Fool, and it's available from Rimsky's Coffee House in Portland, Oregon. It is a chocolate pot de creme layered with thick whipped cream and fresh raspberries. It is fantastic!
    nopoquirkymomma@gmail.com

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  158. MY FAVORITE DESERT IS:

    HOMEMADE ICE CREAM. MY MOM USE TO MAKE IT ALL THE TIME WHEN WE WERE YOUNG. DAD HAD THE OLD TIME CRANK ICE CREAM MAKER & IT TOOK PRACTICALLY ALL DAY TO MAKE & FREEZE IT, BUT IT WAS WORTH THE WAIT. I HAVE SINCE THEN UPDATED MY MTHR'S RECIPE & ADDED CONDENSED MILK, HEAVY WHIPPING CREAM,MORE EGGS THAN ORIGINALLY CALLED FOR. IT IS JUST TO DIE FOR. I AM INTHE PROCESS OF WRITING A COOKBOOK, I HAVE BEEN ON SOUTHERN LIVING SITE MANY TIMES, AND HAVE COPIED MANY OF THE RECIPES. THEY SOUND SOOOO GOOD.

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  161. I love a good sour cream cake or anything made from scratch that has chocolate it in. My email address is fireserpent1974.hotmail.com

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  162. I have liked Southern living on facebook. Really enjoyed looking through the page thank you. My email address is fireserpent1974.hotmail.com

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  168. Anything chocolate – with favorites in each category (pies, bars, cakes – you name it) so the Fudge Pie definitely makes the list !!! (mix in either nuts or cheesecake and we're talking total bliss 🙂

    Mary Prevost
    meprevost@yahoo.com

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  177. One of my favorite deserts has to be pumpkin & dumplings. I have not met any one who once they try it doesn't love it!
    Fran C

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  184. My all-time favorite dessert is a nice, cold custard pie sprinkled with coconut on top. I have always liked this, even as a child! Oh, I also "liked" Southern Living on FB.

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  185. Right now it's a cross between homemade chocolate pudding and a double chocolate mousse torte. And you can't forget about the homemade whipped cream either!

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  187. I am "following" Southern Living on Twitter—and I retweeted the message and url about watching the Mississippi Mud Brownies!

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  188. I "like"d, "follow"ed and am commenting……been thinking of what my favorite dessert would be. Dessert might as well be my first name, because that is pretty much my favorite food. I love all your poke cakes, cheesecakes, most pies, ice cream, etc. Pumpkin pie (my mother's) would have to be my favorite dessert, though. Brings back lots of memories and gives me the "warm fuzzies" whenever I eat it. She's gone now, but I make it the way she did 'cause that's the best!

    nbowen@sals.edu
    (I forgot to leave my email address in my separate comments about liking and following.

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  191. All-time favorite dessert? Ice cream – any flavor, any size, any shape, any topping. Ice cream. Great. Now I have to go to DQ. {SIGH} 😉

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  195. Love Southern Living!

    My favorite dessert of all time is
    Tiramisu. Yummo!

    I am following Southern Living on FB.

    Sunny

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  203. My all time favorite dessert….ANYTHING Chocolate!!!So this recipe is being made at my house in the very near future(like today)!

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  206. My favorite dessert is my mom's recipe for Maple nut chiffon cake with maple buttercream frosting…ciao4now64 at yahoo dot com.

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  213. I love German Chocolate Cake, preferably four layers, with lots of yummy coconut-pecan topping!

    sharonjo at gwtc dot net

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  216. Picking my favorite dessert is like picking your favorite child–not fair and it changes depending on the day. But right now I am really into oatmeal cookies with butterscotch, chocolate and pecans (because that is the dough in my freezer right now.)

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  225. I have many desserts that I love but I there are 2 that tie for #1: Chocolate pie and Butterscotch Pie. My mouth is watering as I speak and it is only 9 AM!!

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  229. Hi! i followed the link in the FOX Wendy's Frosty article to your blog! What have I been missing? So many delicious recipes! thank you so much! I'd love to be included in the SL giveaway. My favorite dessert is Ghiradelli brownies. debgiro at wildblue dot net

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  230. Just one dessert? Hmmmm–7-layer chocolate cake was the first thing that popped into my mind. But I have many favorites, as my waistline will attest. 🙂

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  236. My favorite dessert of all time continues to be Warm Blackberry Cobbler Ala Mode. Yep I have been eating this dessert for years and never get tired of it.

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  239. My favorite is very simple…a chocolate brownie with or without icing, ice cream, chocolate sundae sauce, and whipping cream.

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