Ingredients
- (9 inch) pie crust, baked
- 1/3 cup butter
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- (5 ounce) packageinstant vanilla pudding mix
- cup smilk
- (8 ounce) containerfrozen whipped topping, thawed
Instructions
- Heat butter or margarine with brown sugar and nuts in a saucepan until melted. Spread in the bottom of the baked pie shell. Bake at 450 degrees F (230 degrees C) for 5 minutes. Cool.
- Prepare vanilla pudding mix with milk as directed for a pie; cool for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Measure 1 cup, cover with waxed paper, and chill thoroughly. Pour remainder into pie shell. Chill.
- Fold 1/3 cup whipped topping into the 1 cup reserved pudding. Spread over nuts in pie shell. Chill. Garnish with remaining whipped topping and chopped pecans.