Categories: Pies, Desserts 
      Yield: 1 servings 
  
-----------------------------------TOFFEE----------------------------------- 
      2 c  Dark brown sugar, firmly 
           - packed 
    1/8 ts Salt 
    1/4 c  Unsalted butter or margarin 
      2 tb Boiling water 
      1 tb Cider vinegar 
 
-----------------------------------CRUST----------------------------------- 
      2 c  All-purpose flour 
      1 ts Salt 
    3/4 c  Butter flavored crisco 
      5 tb Ice water (or more) 
      1 tb Whipping cream 
 
----------------------------------FILLING---------------------------------- 
    3/4 c  Granulated sugar 
    1/2 ts Salt 
      1 c  Dark corn syrup 
      3    Eggs 
      2 tb Butter-flavored pancake- 
           - waffle syrup 
      2 tb Butter or margarine, 
           - melted 
      2 ts Vanilla 
      1 ts Unsulfured molasses 
      2 c  Pecan pieces 
 
-----------------------------------SAUCE----------------------------------- 
    2/3 c  Granulated sugar 
    1/3 c  Water 
    1/2 c  Whipping cream -plus- 
      1 tb Whipping cream 
    1/4 c  Unsalted butter or margarin 
  
  TOFFEE 
  Grease a jellyroll pan with Butter Flavor Crisco.  Combine brown sugar, 
  salt, butter, boiling water and vinegar in large saucepan.  Stir until 
  well blended.  Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a 
  boil.  Cover and boil 2 to 3 minutes.  Uncover and brush brown sugar 
  crystals with wet pastry brush.  Boil slowly wothout stirring until 
  mixture reaches hard-crack stage, 295 to 310 degrees on candy thermometer. 
  Stir gently without touching sides of saucepan.  Pour into pan, spreading 
  if necessary.  Cool to room temperature.  Break into squares, then break 
  up enough squares to make 3 tablespoons small bits or pieces.  Cover and 
  store remainder of candy for eating. 
  CRUST 
  Combine flour and salt in medium-size bowl.  Cut in Crisco until all flour 
  is blended to form pea-sized chunks.  Sprinkle with ice water, 1 
  tablespoon at a time.  Toss lightly with fork until dough will form a 
  ball.  Divide dough in half.  Press between hands to form a couple of 5- 
  to 6-inch "pancakes".  Roll dough for bottom crust into circle between 
  sheets of plastic wrap.  Peel off top sheet.  Trim pastry 1 inch larger 
  than upside-down 9-inch pie plate.  Fit into pie plate.  Press to fit. 
  Remove other sheet of plastic wrap.  Freeze.  Roll second "pancake" same 
  as for crust.  Freeze 15 minutes. 
  Heat oven to 400 degrees.  Cut out 26 to 28 leaf shapes and 3 larger 
  maple-leaf shapes from rolled pastry.  Arrange leaves in overlapping and 
  slightly curved pattern on baking sheet.  Brush with whipping cream. 
  Moisten tips of small leaves with ice water.  Press around edge of crust 
  in overlapping fashion.  Brush with cream.  Bake leaves at 400 degrees 10 
  minutes, or until lightly browned. 
  FILLING 
  Combine granulated sugar, salt, corn syrup, eggs, syrup, melted butter, 
  vanilla and molasses in medium-size bowl.  Beat with whisk until blended. 
  Stir in nuts.  Pour into unbaked pie shell.  Bake at 400 degrees 10 
  minutes.  Reduce temperature to 350 degrees.  Bake 25 to 35 minutes, or 
  until filling is firm when pie is shaken gently.  Cover edge to keep from 
  overbrowning. 
  SAUCE 
  Combine granulated sugar and water in small saucepan.  Cook and stir over 
  low heat until sugar dissolves.  Increase heat to medium.  Boil without 
  stirring 11 minutes until mixture is deep amber color, brushing down sugar 
  crystals from sides of pan with wet pastry brush.  Remove from heat.  Stir 
  in whipping cream; mixture will bubble up.  Add butter, stirring until 
  smooth.  Cook and stir over low heat about 3 minutes or until color 
  deepens and sauce thickens slightly.  Spoon 1/2 cup over warm pie.  Cool 1 
  hour.  Cover and refrigerate remaining sauce for ice cream topping. 
  Sprinkle top with toffee bits.  Place leaf decoration to 1 side of pie. 
  Refrigerate 4 hours before serving.  Refrigerate leftovers.  Makes 9-inch 
  pie.