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Recipe Review: Chuck Hughes’ Maple Pecan Pie

June 7, 2010 by Suzie the Foodie 7 Comments


Chuck Hughes' Maple Pecan Pie

I really enjoy Montrealer Chuck Hughes‘ show Chuck’s Day Off. His approach to food is very simple yet delicious. A guy who left the world of advertising to open up a restaurant with his friends and hires his mom to make desserts sounds like one of the coolest foodies around and when he made his version of his mom’s Maple Pecan Pie, I just had to try it out!

Chuck Hughes' Maple Pecan Pie

Holy moly it has been dark and dreary in Nova Scotia. Three summers in a row, there is barely enough light in my kitchen to bake and cook by! Still, baking always makes me feel better. You get one stick/one cup of very cold butter and cut it up. You put flour, salt and the butter in a food processor and whiz until it looks like breadcrumbs. You add 1 egg and 1 tbsp of cold water and whiz. As usual, I needed a lot more water for the dough to come together:

Chuck Hughes' Maple Pecan Pie

When the dough looks like this with no floury bits on the bottom, you know it is going to come together. Knead a little on a board to bring it together then cover with plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for at least an hour.

Chuck Hughes' Maple Pecan Pie

Roll out the dough until it is much bigger than your pie plate. Put in the pie plate and trim the dough. I folded mine over and then fluted the edges. With a fork, prick the bottom of the dough all over.

Chuck Hughes' Maple Pecan Pie

In a bowl you combine whipping cream, brown sugar, real maple syrup and an egg. You can not get a simpler, richer filling than that! Pour into the crust:

Chuck Hughes' Maple Pecan Pie

Top with pecans and bake at 350F. The recipe says to bake for 35 minutes but there was no way my pie filling was close to being set. I kept it in the oven for an additional 15 minutes, although it may have taken around 25 minutes for it to come close to setting. It is hard to say, I kept testing it to see if the middle was still super wobbly and if it was, baked it for longer until it souffled and seemed to come together.

Chuck Hughes' Maple Pecan Pie

My husband insisted on having some of my coffee ice cream on top because he thought it was a little dry. When I look at this picture the last thing I think of is dry, I think he just wanted ice cream! I really loved this pie and wow, how the maple flavour rings true throughout! My one and only complaint is the toughness of the pie crust. That is probably due to the fact that I needed to keep adding extra water as I processed but I did want to follow the recipe as closely as possible. Next time I will just add a lot more water right away. I give this recipe four out of five wooden spoons.

Chuck is going to be at CATCH: The Nova Scotia Seafood Festival June 19th!

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  1. amelia says

    June 7, 2010 at 1:53 pm

    In the first picture, it looks like a lot more than one stick of butter, it looks more like four!!!

    Is the pic just for show or is that really one stick?

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  2. Suzie Ridler says

    June 7, 2010 at 1:58 pm

    Amelia, all my photographs reflects exactly what I did in the kitchen, nothing is for show, I illustrate all the steps and yes, that is one stick of butter cut up.

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  3. Debra She Who Seeks says

    June 7, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    Any excuse for coffee ice cream!

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  4. Tammy says

    June 8, 2010 at 6:23 pm

    I sure wish my husband would eat pecans because this looks simply amazing to me! I love pecan pie, and the addition of maple… YUM!

    Also… for Amelia, our sticks of butter here in the states are typically only 1/2 cup, so it would be 2 sticks for the one cup in the recipe. That may be why the butter in your picture looks like more than “one stick” to us in the US. 🙂

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  5. Suzie Ridler says

    June 8, 2010 at 6:40 pm

    Wow, he doesn’t know what he’s missing Tammy!

    Our sticks of butter are half a cup too which is what the recipe calls for. It’s only half a crust, just the bottom which is why it doesn’t call for much.

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  6. AvaDJ says

    June 9, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    Can I just say I can’t stop drooling over all those pecans and oozing filling. What a fantastic pic.

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  7. AvaDJ says

    June 10, 2010 at 1:03 am

    I just checked Chuck’s recipe on the Food Network site, and I honestly have to say his pie picture is really blah! He should definitely replace it with your photo if he wants to inspire others to make this. It really is a stunning shot.

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