Macadamia Nut Pie

We're gonna turn around here, and we're gonna make one of my cousin Johnny's specialty pies

Now, Johnny owns a bakery called Gabriel's Bakery in Marietta, Georgia. And I asked Johnny, I said, you know, I want the favorite recipe of your husband's

Because I really wanted this to be a man pleaser. So she said, this one's it, Paula

So we're gonna start off by making a ganache. I've put some semi-sweet dark chocolate chips in the bowl

and I'm gonna heat up some heavy cream. Now, I'm not gonna bring this to a bowl

but while that's heating up, I'm gonna come over here, and I'm gonna put my sugar, just a granulated sugar

and I'm gonna add some softened cream cheese. I'm gonna beat the cream cheese and the sugar together

In the meantime, our chips are in the bowl, and we're going to pour our hot cream over that

and we're just going to stir those just like that. And you see how quickly you have ganache

There nothing to it Just a fancy word for something very very simple All right I just going to set that to the side now and let it cool because we fixing to get to the really good part of this pie

I think this pie might be a man catcher. You know what I mean, girls

All right, I'm going to add some heavy cream that hadn't been whipped

I'm just going to add it very, very slowly. This is a real rich pie

All right. Now I'm gonna fold in some heavy cream that's been whipped

We're just gonna fold that in by going to the bottom of the bowl with our spatula and

coming up on the other side, because we don't want it to break down on us. Okay

And then we're gonna fold in our macadamia nuts. and I've got some wonderful fresh orange zest

Oh, and it smells so good and strong. We're going to just fold that in

and now we're going to fold in the best part, and that's the melted white chocolate

Oh, gosh, I could eat that just like that. All right, we're just going to fold that in

Hey, Gertie Girl. I can believe you don weigh 200 pounds and I can believe I don weigh three All right that looks out of this world

All right, so all we're going to do now is put that in a prepared pie crust that's been baked off

And we're just going to fill our pie crust with this delectable filling

Okay, this one's ready to go into the freezer. And I've got another one in here that's actually ready

Watch it, Rennie. It's all ready for the ganache. This is sinful looking

All right, now I'm going to do this kind of slow and gentle. I'm putting this warm chocolate ganache

over sugar and cream cheese and macadamia nuts. And, oh, my gracious

Now, just when you think this pie's done, it ain't. I'm going to put some whipping cream on it

Okay, I've got some whipped cream in the pastry bag, and I'm going to just pipe some whipped cream onto our pie

I actually let that ganache kind of chill All right now I gonna just sprinkle it with a few extra nuts And I gonna pop this back in the freezer so

to my sorry, I don't get to taste it right now. But I'm gonna get to it in the next 10 minutes

Now I'm fixing to go get that white chocolate macadamia nut pie out

and sample it to make sure it's good enough for my family and friends

And I'm going to see what we have. Look at it gooshing down

It almost looks like it's got a heartbeat. Mm-mm-mm. Johnny, I think you got your winner, baby girl

Let's see now, I think a little bit more cream is in order

And a little bit more nuts. Let's see what we got here

Oh my gracious. Thank you