Packed with sugar and coffee flavor.

Today's gift to you, the reader, is a pie of amazing proportions. This pie is pretty much perfect.

Not too sweet, not too nutty, and a refreshing taste of Kahula all around. Very well balanced, and super easy too. Husband got this recipe from his mom and has made it occasionally over the years of Thanksgiving he has hosted. I have a pie I really like: Chocolate Whiskey Pecan Pie! which you will see at Christmas time.

Kahlua Pecan Pie (a la my Mother in Love)
Ingredients:
1 unbaked 9-10 inch pie crust
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup Kahlua
3/4 cup evaporated milk
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, room temp/soft
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs
1/2 cup of dark corn syrup (I didn't have any dark, so I used light and mixed a touch of molasses in)
1 - 1 1/2 cup pecans (at least 1/2 cup chopped. then, if desired, enough halves for a pretty design)
Method:
Preheat oven to 325.
Beat butter, sugar, and vanilla together.
Add flour and mix well.
Beat in eggs, one at a time.
Stir in Kahlua, corn syrup, and evaporated milk.
Stir in chopped pecans.
Pour into pie shell.
If desired: Make a pretty design on top with the not chopped pecan halves.
Bake for 40 minutes.
*This pie browns on top quite a bit, which I like, but feel free to tin foil the crust part of the way through.*
Cool completely and serve chilled.

Until the next Thanksgiving meal...



**Today's title is from Richelle Mead The Indigo Spell The third book in the Bloodline Series, very nice piece of Teen Literature which tells the backstory of the characters in Vampire Academy. The full quote is "It's Kahula, Sage. Packed with sugar and coffee flavor."**