To buy or bake a chocolate pecan pie

To bake or to buy a chocolate pecan pie, that is the question…

Okay, so the dilemma isn’t as grand as the problems Hamlet was dealing with, but when you are weighing the issues of time, taste, convenience, and cost… it does warrant some thought… And in today’s busy world of work, deadlines, children, meetings, soccer practice – whatever you have that consumes most of your time… it actually makes sense to purchase a ready made chocolate pecan pie to save a few steps in your busy day and in most cases you can pick it up on the way to wherever you are taking it…



Reason #1 to Buy Your Chocolate Pecan Pie: Convenience

Cooking a chocolate pecan pie can be time-consuming, challenging, and a bit messy. If you’ve ever made your own pecan pie, you already know what that involves and it doesn’t get any easier when you throw in some chocolate. It makes it absolutely delicious, but not any tidier.

One of the biggest problems is the incredible stickiness of the corn syrup. Because of its high sweetness, if you get that syrup on anything it’s very hard to get rid of the sticky residue. Plus, most dishwashers seem to require multiple loads before they can get the remnants of the pie off your dishware. Or you can place the dish in a sink full of hot water and let it soak – but again that is cutting into your time and energy because you have to wait for the hot water to un-stick the corn syrup.

When you buy a chocolate pecan pie that’s already been made, you don’t have to worry about any of the mess clean up. You can just enjoy and eat and then throw the empty container away. You may have a few sticky forks and pie server, but that isn’t hardly any problem at all.

Reason #2 to Buy Your Chocolate Pecan Pie: Cost


This one can be tricky. You may think it’s cheaper to buy and make the pie at home, but with today’s rising food costs and the various ingredients needed to make a chocolate pecan pie and not to mention your time saved – you may actually come out ahead purchasing a ready made pie. And stopping off at the store on your way home from work to just pick up what’s needed for the pie rarely works because more then likely you will find something else to throw in the shopping cart and your 15 to 20 dollar chocolate pecan pie has now grown to a 100 dollar pie, with a few extras thrown in.


Reason #3 to Buy Your Chocolate Pecan Pie: Taste

Pecan pies can be one of the trickier pies to cook. With a chocolate pecan pie, you’ve got the extra pressure of perfectly melting your chocolate and that’s not something all cooks have mastered. It has to be timed perfectly and if you’ve ever had an over or under cooked pecan pie you know exactly what I’m talking about. Over cook your chocolate pecan pie and it goes from being simply delicious to simply yuck! Undercook it and the corn syrup has reached the proper consistency and it’s soupy instead of gel like… When you buy your ready made chocolate pecan pie from a professional – you know you are getting a perfectly baked pie.