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C H O C O L A T E C H E E S E C A K E S A N D S O M U C H M O R E 261

CREAM CHEES
CREAM CHEESE E

BROWNIE PIE E
BROWNIE PI

love trying Pillsbury Bake-Off made it, we gorged on it at picnics
winning recipes. When my and parties, and now it comes in this

daughters ask if there is any streamlined prize-winning cake mix
dessert after dinner, I glibly reply, version.

“Only some million-dollar pie.” Is any
SERVES: 8
recipe worth a million dollars? Since
PREPARATION TIME: 15 MINUTES
that has been the grand-prize kitty BAKING TIME: 40 TO 45 MINUTES

for the most recent Bake-Offs, it is a ASSEMBLY TIME: 2 MINUTES
question to ponder. I do recall that
1 store-bought refrigerated 9-inch pie crust
the last few winners have contained
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese,
chocolate—no doubt to justify that
at room temperature
premium price tag! This 2000 grand 3 tablespoons sugar
prize–winning recipe comes from 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 large eggs
Roberta Sonefeld, of Hopkins, South
1 package (15.1 ounces) hot fudge swirl
Carolina, and is based on a Pillsbury deluxe brownie mix
brownie mix. Leave it to a South- 1 ⁄4 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons water
erner to enter a fudge pie recipe in
1 ⁄2 cup chopped
the Bake-Off—fudge pie is sacred
pecans
stuff south of the Mason-Dixon line.
Our grand mothers and mothers