Calling all chocolate lovers! This Southern-inspired chocolate cream pie is made that much more decadent with the inclusion of ground pecans in the chocolate cookie crust, as well as toasted pecans on top of the pie itself.  The filling is a rich homemade chocolate pudding and the topping?  Lightly sweetened vanilla whipped cream.  The key to this pie is to leave it in the fridge overnight, so that the filling sets nicely and makes the pie easy to cut into slices.

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