Mocha Pecan Pie

So, today I baked Mocha Pecan Pie which one of the recipes Marylin gave me yesterday. I popped into the town to get some bits and pieces for the pie. I bought vegan sugar free chocolate, and extra maple syrup. I adopted the recipe into sugar free and gluten free. It was a bit fiddly to make and roll out the gluten free pastry for little bite size tartlets. I love my pastry very thin and crispy. By the time I rolled out and lined dozen of them, I felt like I was an expert! I made about 28 bite sizes from the recipe. I'm very happy how they turned up. I needed to roll out pastry bit too thick though. The pastry is bit crumbly, I think they will be lovely with thick nutty cream sweetened with maple syrup! This mocha mix is made with chocolate, tofu, coffee granules, maple syrup, flour, coconut butter and hazelnuts(used hazel nuts instead). It reminded me Bourbon pecan pies I used to make in one of restaurants I used to work. Oh, It was hell. I quite often got told off ( and she swore lots and lots!) I put too much pecan mix into these bite size tart cases. According to her, if they had too much mix in, it boiled over while baking and down to nothing...which meant wastage and didn't look nice. So we all had to use little tea spoon and try not to spoon out too much either liquid or nuts. Had to be right amount of both nuts and liquid. In mornings, we had lots to bake for breakfast( for staff), lunch service and peti fore and cut some home made turkish delight too. If they were baked even bit too brown, we had to bake them again! Too many things to do but not enough time to do everything we needed to do. On top of that, we had to check all fruits came in( for fruits plate) and store tidy and nicely into our walk-in fridge. If I stood still even 3 seconds, I got questioned very sharply why I was standing there doing nothing. She only worked early shifts, so I quite liked doing late shifts so that I didn't have to see her. Phew, I'm glad those days were over! Anyway these are what I baked today! ☺

They don't have bourbon or sugar, still taste yummy though.