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Kentucky Derby Bourbon Pie

derby pieBourbon balls not your thing? Try Kentucky Derby bourbon pie instead, a fudge-sweet chocolate and nut confection invented at Prospect, Kentucky's Melrose Inn. Traditionally served around Derby time, the treat typically calls for walnuts or pecans and a splash of Kentucky bourbon. The Inn's former owners, the Kerns, have been trying to protect its rights to the name "Derby Pie" by filing various lawsuits over the years - even Bon Appetit was no match for the Kerns, losing the right to print recipes using the name in 1987. So if you're looking for a good recipe you may need to try searching "chocolate chess pie" or "Kentucky bourbon pie" or "Thoroughbred pie" instead.

Epicurious has a nice-looking one, for a "chocolate pecan chess pie." I'm planning on making two a little later, to take to a Derby party this afternoon. Now, all I need is a giant hat...

Lisa, over at My Own Sweet Thyme, has a lovely post with a recipe about her aunt's "brownie pie" - supposedly her aunt once worked for the Kerns and was afraid of being sued!

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Tags: america, baking, bourbon, chocolate, dessert, kentucky derby, KentuckyDerby, pie, southern states

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sandy

7-06-2008 @8:10PM sandy said... omg this sounds so good.I was going to make a chess pie from this recipe here http://iwasreallyhungry.com/2008/06/26/five-hour-chess-pie/#more-79

but reading the words chocolate chess pie made me want to make a chocolate one!
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