Brownie Caramel Walnut Pie

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 9 inches graham cracker pie crust (prepared)
• 3/4 cup walnuts (chopped)
• 20 caramels (unwrapped)
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk (divided)
• 1 egg (beaten, room temp)
• 4 tablespoons butter (melted and divided)
• 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips (melted) or 6 ounces milk chocolate chips (melted)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 2 brush 2 tbsp of melted butter onto pie crust, moistening crust.
• 3 sprinkle nuts into pie shell.
• 4 in a bowl, melt caramels with 2/3 cup condensed milk in microwave on high one 1 minute increments, stirring after each as to not to burn until fully melted.
• 5 pour caramel sauce over walnuts, completely covering.
• 6 in bowl, combine egg,remaining butter and remaining condensed milk; mix well.
• 7 melt chocolate chips in microwave on high on 1 minute increments, stirring each time until fully melted and slighlty cool.
• 8 stir in chocolate into dairy mixture very throughly.
• 9 pour mixture over caramel layer.
• 10 bake 35 minutes or until center is set(dip tester into brownie layer and only a few moist crumbs should cling to tester).
• 11 cool.
• 12 serve warm
• 13 footnotes.
• 14 *can sub any nut. **can sub for shortbread pie crust *** slightly cool melted chocolate for about 1 minute, so when adding to mixture, you do not "cook" the egg in the mixture!