German Chocolate Pie

This year, 2020 I decided to make a different pie every week.  Not sure I will make it doing different ones all year, but I am off to a good start.  I made a German Chocolate pie, that has always been one of my favorites.  I always used the recipe from the German Chocolate package.  Now they don't have it  on there.  So I found a recipe on the internet that seemed to be pretty close.  It  seems to taste different, but it was good.

German Chocolate pie!

Ingredients:

1 pie crust in a 9 inch pie pan

1 pkg. German sweet chocolate (4 oz.)
1/4 cup butter
1 can (12 oz.) evaporated milk
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 T. cornstarch
1/8 tsp salt
4 egg yolks
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup flaked coconut
1 cup chopped pecans

Directions:

Heat oven to 375 degrees.  In 1 quart saucepan, heat chocolate and butter over medium-low heat until melted and mixture can be stirred smooth.  Remove from heat; gradually stir in milk.

In medium bowl, mix sugar, cornstarch and salt.  In small bowl, mix egg yolks and vanilla. Gradually add chocolate mixture to egg mixture, stirring with wire whisk.  Add chocolate-egg yolk mixture to cornstarch mixture, stirring with whisk.  Pour filling into crust lined pan.

In small bowl, mix coconut and pecans; sprinkle over filling.

Bake 45-50 minutes or until puffed and almost set.  Cool completely on cooling rack, about 4 hours.