Showing posts with label pecan recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pecan recipes. Show all posts

Monday, August 28, 2023

Orange Glazed Pecan Muffins #MuffinMonday

Sweet buttery orange glazed pecans elevate a simple orange muffin to a super treat in these orange glazed pecan muffins. Enjoy with a cup of tea or a cold glass of milk!

Food Lust People Love: Sweet buttery orange glazed pecans elevate a simple orange muffin to a super treat in these orange glazed pecan muffins. Enjoy with a cup of tea or a cold glass of milk!

As I mentioned in my post on Saturday, I made those orange glazed pecans solely to include them in muffin recipe for today but thankfully the pecan recipes makes about twice what you need for the muffins. Otherwise, there would not be enough left, they are that more-ish and delicious. 

Orange Glazed Pecan Muffins

Orange glazed pecans are super simple to make. You can find my recipe here: https://www.foodlustpeoplelove.com/2023/08/orange-glazed-pecans.html 
You can also use store-bought candied pecans. I often find them in the bulk section at Kroger. 

Ingredients for 12 muffins
2/3 cup or 130g sugar
Zest of 1 mandarin orange
2 cups or 250g flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt 
2 eggs
1/2 cup or 120ml milk
1/3 cup or 80ml canola or other light oil
Juice of 2 mandarin oranges (about 1/4 cup or 60ml)
1 cup or 100g orange glazed pecans

Method
Preheat your oven to 350°F or 180°C and prepare your 12-cup muffin pan by spraying with non-stick spray or lining it with muffin papers. Since I was concerned that the pecans might get sticky again when hot, I chose to just grease my pan this time. 

Measure your sugar into a bowl and zest the mandarin orange into it. Use the back of a spoon or spatula to press down on the zest and mix it in with the sugar, releasing the flavor and oil till the sugar is a pale yellow and whole bowl smells of bright citrusy sunshine. Go ahead, take a big sniff. It's glorious! 


Whisk together your flour, orange sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl. 


Chop the glazed pecans.


Add most of them to the flour mixture, saving some for sprinkling on the tops before baking. Use your hands to mix them in and separate any pieces that are sticking together till they are all well coated in the flour mixture.


In another smaller bowl, whisk together your eggs, oil, milk and orange juice.


Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ones and stir until just mixed, with a little flour still showing. 


Divide your batter between the 12 muffin cups. Top with the reserved pecans. 


Bake for about 18-20 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.


Allow to cool for a few minutes in the pans and then remove to continue cooling on a wire rack.


Enjoy!


It is once again the last Monday of the month, which means it's time for Muffin Monday! Check out all the great muffin recipes my blogger friends are sharing today. 


#MuffinMonday is a group of muffin loving bakers who get together once a month to bake muffins. You can see all of our lovely muffins by following our Pinterest board. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about Muffin Monday can be found on our home page.


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Food Lust People Love: Sweet buttery orange glazed pecans elevate a simple orange muffin to a super treat in these orange glazed pecan muffins. Enjoy with a cup of tea or a cold glass of milk!

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Saturday, August 26, 2023

Orange Glazed Pecans

Super easy to make but addictively delicious, these orange glazed pecans are a delightful snack, muffin ingredient or dessert topper. 

Food Lust People Love: Super easy to make but addictively delicious, these orange glazed pecans are a delightful snack, muffin ingredient or dessert topper.

I made these orange glazed pecans specifically to use in an orange muffin recipe, an idea that came to me in the middle of the night last night. My brain is weird and wonderful like that. Orange muffins with pecans would be good but what if I kicked them up a notch with orange glazed pecans? 

It was a good decision and you’ll find that recipe here on Monday. Meanwhile, make some glazed pecans and try not to eat them all. You’ll need about half of them for the muffins, if you can manage to save that many. 

For years my mom has been telling me about some orange glazed pecans that were a specialty of my aunt Karen’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Ayo, but I’ve never made them. I think she used frozen orange juice concentrate. This version is much easier and I look forward to making some for Mom soon. 

Orange Glazed Pecans

A few of my pecan halves were broken but I carried on anyway because, as mentioned above, my plan was to chop a lot of them up to use in a muffin recipe. If you are serving these to guests and need them to look pretty, you might want to choose all whole halves. 

Ingredients
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons orange juice
Zest from 1 Mandarin orange or tangerine
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
pinch of salt
1 1/2 cups or 150g pecan halves

Method
Add pecans, brown sugar, butter, orange juice, orange zest, cinnamon and salt to a medium skillet over medium heat. 


Stir regularly while the butter and sugar melt into a syrup. 


Once mixture is bubbling, stir frequently, until pecans are golden brown and all of the orange-sugar mixture has evaporated and the pecans are well coated with the glaze. 


Spread the pecans out onto a silicone pat or piece of nonstick baking parchment paper, separating them right away. 


Cool completely then store in an airtight container someplace cool. 


Enjoy! 


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Food Lust People Love: Super easy to make but addictively delicious, these orange glazed pecans are a delightful snack, muffin ingredient or dessert topper.

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Monday, December 27, 2021

Pecan Pie Muffins #MuffinMonday

These pecan pie muffins are crunchy outside and chewy inside, the absolute best of both worlds if you love pecan pie and muffins!

Food Lust People Love: These pecan pie muffins are crunchy outside and chewy inside, the absolute best of both worlds if you love pecan pie and muffins!

Waaaay back in January of 2015, I saved a pecan pie muffin recipe from the blog The Girl Who Ate Everything with great intentions of making it immediately. I mean, really, what kind of pecan pie lover would I be if I wouldn’t also want a muffin that tastes like pecan pie?

And yet, somehow, it’s taken me almost seven years to finally make these muffins. Seven long years when I could have been enjoying their sticky pie-filling-like insides and crunchy outsides. Which makes me really sad now that I’ve tasted them. They are pure delight. 

Pecan Pie Muffins

The original recipe made eight muffins in a regular muffin pan filled only 2/3 of the way full so that a knife could be run around the outside to get them out of the pan. If that seems like a palaver, use a silicone muffin pan instead. 

Ingredients
1 cup, packed, or 200g light brown sugar
1/2 cup or 63g all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
2 cups or 230g chopped pecans
2/3 cup or 75g butter, softened, plus extra for the pan
2 eggs, at room temperature

Method
Preheat your oven to 350°F or 180°C and prepare a 8 or 9 holes of a 12-cup muffin pan by greasing them generously with butter. Do not skimp on this step because these pecan pie muffins are super sticky. As I mentioned above, if you have silicone muffin cups or a silicone muffin pan, this would be a good time to employ them instead. 

As you can see from my photo below, I used a Wilton silicone heart muffin pan and I STILL buttered it, just in case! If you want one too, here’s an Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3myKzQx 

In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together the brown sugar, flour and salt.  Stir in the chopped pecans. 

Adding the chopped pecans to the flour/sugar mixture

In a separate larger bowl, whisk the softened butter and room temperature eggs together.  It’s going to look a little curdy, but don’t let that bother you.

Pour the butter/egg mixture into the dry ingredients and fold until just combined.

Pouring the butter/eggs into the dry ingredient bowl

Divide the batter between the muffin cups. Again, if you are using a regular pan, I recommend you make 8 or even 9 muffins with this batter so that the muffins don’t bake up and over the sides of the pan. That way you can run a knife around the muffins to remove them. 

If you are using a silicone pan, put another metal pan beneath it for support. 

Filling the muffin pan

Bake full 6-cup muffins for 25 minutes or until the tops are crunchy and the edges are browned. If you’ve opted for smaller muffins, check them around 15-18 minutes.

Pecan pie muffins just baked!

Leave the muffins to cool in the pan for about 5-7 minutes, then either push them gently out of a silicone pan or, as previously mentioned, run a knife around the muffins in a metal pan and transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely. 

Check out those pecan pie-like insides! I wish I could describe to you how good these are. Soooooo Good.

Food Lust People Love: These pecan pie muffins are crunchy outside and chewy inside, the absolute best of both worlds if you love pecan pie and muffins!

Enjoy!

Food Lust People Love: These pecan pie muffins are crunchy outside and chewy inside, the absolute best of both worlds if you love pecan pie and muffins!

It’s the last Muffin Monday of 2021 and we’ve got some lovely recipes for you today. Check them out below.

#MuffinMonday is a group of muffin loving bakers who get together once a month to bake muffins. You can see all of our lovely muffins by following our Pinterest board. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about Muffin Monday can be found on our home page. 


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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Jalapeño Pecan Cheese Ball

This spreadable Jalapeño Pecan Cheese Ball is made with cream cheese and cheddar. It’s a spicy, creamy, crunchy, delicious, attractive addition to your party table. Watch it disappear!

Food Lust People Love: This spreadable Jalapeño Pecan Cheese Ball is made with cream cheese and cheddar. It’s a spicy, creamy, crunchy, delicious, attractive addition to your party table. Watch it disappear!

Growing up I was not a fan of the cheese balls my paternal grandmother adored. But because she loved them, they always made an appearance at family gatherings around the holidays. I think my mom bought them for Gram from Hickory Farms but I’ll have to get back to you on that.

If you’ve been buying them too, I’m here to tell you how easy they are to make at home. The only challenging part is mixing the ingredients together since this makes a fairly firm ball. Roll up your sleeves and apply a little elbow grease to that wooden mixing spoon and you’ll be fine.

Jalapeño Pecan Cheese Ball

The ingredients below make one substantial cheese ball (about 1.1 lbs or 500g) but I can promise it will disappear in no time. We like to spread it on crackers or toast but you just might find yourself licking the knife when all of those are gone. Choose a dull one.

Ingredients
8 oz or 227g cream cheese, softened
4 oz or 113g sharp white cheddar cheese
1 1/2 cups or 150g pecans
2 green onions
1 fresh jalapeño
4 soft sun-dried tomato halves (if in oil, drain and pat completely dry with paper towels)

To serve:
Crackers or toast rounds

Method
Grate the cheddar cheese. Finely mince the jalapeño, green onions and sun-dried tomatoes. Separate out about 1 tablespoon each of the vegetables to be used later when we roll the cheese ball. 

Chop the pecans finely.

Finely mince the jalapeño, green onions and sun-dried tomatoes. Separate out about 1 tablespoon each of the vegetables to be used later when we roll the cheese ball.   Chop the pecans finely.

In a bowl, use a wooden spoon or stiff spatula to combine the cream cheese, cheddar cheese, one quarter of the pecans (you can just eyeball this) and the bigger piles of jalapeño, green onions and sun-dried tomatoes until thoroughly blended. 

In a bowl, use a wooden spoon or stiff spatula to combine the cream cheese, cheddar cheese, one quarter of the pecans (you can just eyeball this) and the bigger piles of jalapeño, green onions and sun-dried tomatoes until thoroughly blended.

Form the mixture into a ball.

Form the mixture into a ball.

Cover your work surface with cling film. I find this works best if I wipe the countertop with a clean damp sponge first which helps the cling film stick and stay in place. Sprinkle the reserved minced jalapeño, green onions and sun-dried tomatoes onto the cling film. 

Cover your work surface with cling film. I find this works best if I wipe the countertop with a clean damp sponge first which helps the cling film stick and stay in place. Sprinkle the reserved minced jalapeño, green onions and sun-dried tomatoes onto the cling film.

Top these with the remainder of the chopped pecans. Transfer the cheese ball to the middle. 

Top these with the remainder of the chopped pecans. Transfer the cheese ball to the middle.

Dampen your hands with a little water to stop the cheese from sticking to them and then roll the cheese ball around on the pecans and veggies until it’s completely covered. You can keep rolling it, applying gentle pressure until most of the pecans have adhered to the ball. 

Dampen your hands with a little water to stop the cheese from sticking to them and then roll the cheese ball around on the pecans and veggies until it’s completely covered. You can keep rolling it, applying gentle pressure until most of the pecans have adhered to the ball.

Pile any leftover pecan/veggie bits in the middle of your serving plate and, using your hands, pop the cheese ball on top, pressing down gently. 

Pile any leftover pecan/veggie bits in the middle of your serving plate and, using your hands, pop the cheese ball on top, pressing down gently.

Refrigerate the jalapeño pecan cheese ball, covered, for at least 1 hour to chill.

The finished cheese ball with crackers.

Serve with crackers or toasted rounds of bread.

Food Lust People Love: This spreadable Jalapeño Pecan Cheese Ball is made with cream cheese and cheddar. It’s a spicy, creamy, crunchy, delicious, attractive addition to your party table. Watch it disappear!

Enjoy!

Food Lust People Love: This spreadable Jalapeño Pecan Cheese Ball is made with cream cheese and cheddar. It’s a spicy, creamy, crunchy, delicious, attractive addition to your party table. Watch it disappear!

It’s the first Wednesday of the month so that means it’s time for my Foodie Extravaganza friends to get together to celebrate an obscure food holiday. This time it’s National Georgia Pecan Month! I can’t promise my pecans are from Georgia but this recipe certainly showcases my favorite nut. Check out the links to the other recipes below. Many thanks to our host, Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm


Foodie Extravaganza is where we celebrate obscure food holidays by cooking and baking together with the same ingredient or theme each month. Posting day is always the first Wednesday of each month. If you are a blogger and would like to join our group and blog along with us, come join our Facebook page Foodie Extravaganza. We would love to have you! If you're a spectator looking for delicious tid-bits check out our Foodie Extravaganza Pinterest Board.

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Food Lust People Love: This spreadable Jalapeño Pecan Cheese Ball is made with cream cheese and cheddar. It’s a spicy, creamy, crunchy, delicious, attractive addition to your party table. Watch it disappear!

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Sunday, June 20, 2021

Chocolate Pixies

Chocolate Pixies are a magical combination of chewy, crunchy, chocolatey and nutty, baked with a light coating of powdered pixie dust aka icing sugar.

Food Lust People Love: Chocolate Pixies are a magical combination of chewy, crunchy, chocolatey and nutty, baked with a light coating of powdered pixie dust aka icing sugar.

Years ago I came across a recipe in Gourmet magazine for baked treats they called “chocolate crackle cookies.” The actual magazine belonged to a friend so I photocopied it and stuck it in my recipe binder. 


As you can see from the photo, that recipe has been well used over the years. It’s a fun one to make with children because they love rolling the dough into the requisite balls. Never mind that they also tend to get powdered sugar everywhere, that’s part of the sweet fun. 

Which brings me to the recipe I’m sharing today. Our Sunday FunDay host today is Sue of Palatable Pastime. She chose the theme of Midsummer Night’s Dream and encouraged us to celebrate by sharing recipes that would delight the faerie folk. 

I immediate started researching recipes online and found MANY for chocolate pixies. About 110,000,000 Google results, if you can imagine. That’s a lot of pixie cookie recipes! Turns out that I’ve been making a sort of chocolate pixie cookie for 26 years, just by another name. Who knew? 

Chocolate Pixies

This recipe makes four dozen cookies and was adapted from one on Big Oven. The dough freezes beautifully, if you don’t want to bake them all in the same day. 

Ingredients
For the cookie dough:
1/4 cup or 57g butter
4 oz or 113g unsweetened chocolate
2 cups or 250g flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups or 400g sugar
1/2 cup, finely chopped, or 53g pecans
3 eggs, lightly beaten

To coat dough before baking:
1 cup or 125g icing sugar

Method
Use a sharp knife to finely chop the pecans. 


In a microwavable bowl, melt butter and chocolate in the microwave in 15-20 seconds zaps, stirring in between, until both are completely melted and the mixture is smooth.


Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt and stir to combine.  


Add in the sugar, chopped pecans and eggs. 


Stir till well combined. It will be quite a stiff dough and a good workout for your stirring arm. 


Cover the dough with cling film and press it down to make sure no air is touching the dough and refrigerate at least 1 hour for easier handling.

When you are ready to bake, preheat your oven to 300°F or 149°C and prepare two cookie sheets by lining them with baking parchment or silicone liners. 

Use a spoon or scoop to divide the dough into small pieces, a little smaller than a ping pong ball. 


Shape each piece into a ball and roll it in the icing sugar. 


Put them on a clean plate to catch the icing sugar that inevitably falls off as you transfer them. You don’t want that much on your cookie sheet. 

Place the balls 2 inches apart on your prepared cookie sheets. Still a little sugar on the pan, just not as much.


Bake in the preheated oven for 15-18 minutes or until edges are set, rotating the cookie sheets halfway through so they cook evenly.


Remove the chocolate pixies from the cookie sheets and place on wire racks to cool completely. 

Food Lust People Love: Chocolate Pixies are a magical combination of chewy, crunchy, chocolatey and nutty, baked with a light coating of powdered pixie dust aka icing sugar.

Repeat the process until all the dough is rolled, sugared and baked into cookies.

Enjoy!

Food Lust People Love: Chocolate Pixies are a magical combination of chewy, crunchy, chocolatey and nutty, baked with a light coating of powdered pixie dust aka icing sugar.

It’s Sunday FunDay and, as previously mentioned, we are celebrating A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Check out all the recipes below. Many thanks to our host, Sue of Palatable Pastime


We are a group of food bloggers who believe that Sunday should be a family fun day, so every Sunday we share recipes that will help you to enjoy your day. If you're a blogger interested in joining us, just visit our Facebook group and request to join.

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Food Lust People Love: Chocolate Pixies are a magical combination of chewy, crunchy, chocolatey and nutty, baked with a light coating of powdered pixie dust aka icing sugar.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Cranberry Pecan Quick Bread #BreadBakers

Made with jellied sauce, this cranberry pecan quick bread is full of tart cranberry flavor, rich nutty bits with just enough sweetness to be perfect with a cup of hot tea or coffee.

Food Lust People Love: Made with jellied sauce, this cranberry pecan quick bread is full of tart cranberry flavor, rich nutty bits with just enough sweetness to be perfect with a cup of hot tea or coffee. The original recipe called for whole berry sauce but in our family it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving or Christmas without the jiggly slices, served straight from the can. In my adapted recipe, you need the moisture of the jellied cranberry sauce to balance the added oat bran.


Last week I was tidying up the pantry. It’s such a great feeling to have all my cans in a row, organized by type. You know, beans together, tomato products side by side. Jalapeños in the back, along with the capers. Not such a great feeling was realizing that I had four, count them, four cans of jellied cranberry sauce. Part of expat life is buying seasonal items whenever you see them, because it’s likely that a holiday will roll around, and that special ingredient you must have will not be available.

But even I have to agree that keeping four cans of jellied cranberry sauce in stock is overkill, especially when pantry space is limited. Inspired by this recipe on the Ocean Spray website (because it uses an entire can - no one wants a half cup of leftover cranberry sauce in June), I am now down to three cans. I loved this cranberry pecan quick bread so much that can number three is earmarked for another loaf.

This is not in any way a sponsored post but I did use Ocean Spray Jellied Cranberry Sauce. Just so you know, in case you have a can or three lurking in your pantry.

Cranberry Pecan Quick Bread

The original recipe called for whole berry sauce but in our family it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving or Christmas without the jiggly slices, served straight from the can. In my adapted recipe, you need the moisture of the jellied cranberry sauce to balance the added oat bran.

Ingredients
2 cups or 250g flour
1/2 cup or 70g oat bran
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2/3 cup or 132g brown sugar
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 14-ounce or 397g can jellied cranberry sauce
1/2 cup or 120ml canola or other light vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup or 130g roughly chopped pecans

Method
Preheat your oven to 350ºF or 180°C. Prepare your loaf pan by greasing it or lining it with baking parchment.

Gently break up the jellied cranberry sauce with a fork, making sure to leave some of it in bigger pieces. Set aside a small handful of the pecans and a couple of tablespoons of the cranberry sauce for topping the batter with before baking.



Whisk together the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl.

In another smaller mixing bowl, gently mix together the beaten egg, cranberry sauce, oil and vanilla. You want to keep the cranberry chunks chunky, as much as possible.



Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl with the dry ingredients. Fold them together until just mixed.



Sprinkle on the pecans and fold again to distribute the pecans throughout the thick batter.



Spoon the batter evenly into prepared loaf pan. Top with the reserved jellied cranberry sauce and chopped pecans.

Food Lust People Love: Made with jellied sauce, this cranberry pecan quick bread is full of tart cranberry flavor, rich nutty bits with just enough sweetness to be perfect with a cup of hot tea or coffee. The original recipe called for whole berry sauce but in our family it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving or Christmas without the jiggly slices, served straight from the can. In my adapted recipe, you need the moisture of the jellied cranberry sauce to balance the added oat bran.


Bake until golden brown and a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean, 50-55 minutes. If bread begins to brown too quickly, cover it loosely with foil and continue to bake until it is done.

Food Lust People Love: Made with jellied sauce, this cranberry pecan quick bread is full of tart cranberry flavor, rich nutty bits with just enough sweetness to be perfect with a cup of hot tea or coffee. The original recipe called for whole berry sauce but in our family it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving or Christmas without the jiggly slices, served straight from the can. In my adapted recipe, you need the moisture of the jellied cranberry sauce to balance the added oat bran.


Leave the loaf to cool in the pan on a wire rack for 15-20 minutes. Remove the loaf from the pan and transfer it to the wire rack. Cool completely before slicing.

Food Lust People Love: Made with jellied sauce, this cranberry pecan quick bread is full of tart cranberry flavor, rich nutty bits with just enough sweetness to be perfect with a cup of hot tea or coffee. The original recipe called for whole berry sauce but in our family it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving or Christmas without the jiggly slices, served straight from the can. In my adapted recipe, you need the moisture of the jellied cranberry sauce to balance the added oat bran.


Enjoy!

This month I am hosting our Bread Bakers event with the theme Quick Breads. Although quick breads can take many forms, they have in common the use of other leavening agents instead of yeast to get rise we want in a baked good. I challenged the bakers to bake in loaf pans, rather than making muffins or the like. Check out what a great job they did by clicking on the links below:

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. Follow our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated each month on this home page.

We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.

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Food Lust People Love: Made with jellied sauce, this cranberry pecan quick bread is full of tart cranberry flavor, rich nutty bits with just enough sweetness to be perfect with a cup of hot tea or coffee. The original recipe called for whole berry sauce but in our family it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving or Christmas without the jiggly slices, served straight from the can. In my adapted recipe, you need the moisture of the jellied cranberry sauce to balance the added oat bran.
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Monday, December 9, 2013

Nanny's Pecan Pie

Louisiana pecan pie is chewy and gooey, full of pecans and sticky goodness, in a flakey short crust. Nanny's pecan pie recipe is the best of the best. Christmas is not Christmas without it!

Food Lust People Love: Louisiana pecan pie is chewy and gooey, full of pecans and sticky goodness, in a flakey short crust. Nanny's pecan pie recipe is the best of the best. Christmas is not Christmas without it!


We were there! After five hours of driving dark highways in the bitter cold, the whole family piled into the warmth of my grandmother’s yellow kitchen. As usual, everyone talking at once. Following shortly behind us, coming from the opposite direction on Interstate 10, my aunt’s family banged through the old screen door, arms laden with luggage and goodies.

Nanny had a stack of pecan pies, all baked in foil pie plates and wrapped in more foil, a tower of shiny as welcome as any star on the nearby Christmas tree. Pecan pie was one of her specialties and this year, she claimed, she had perfected the recipe. Baking pie after pie until the mixture was just right. We laughed when she said 7/8 cup of Karo, because how do you even measure that!

In southern Louisiana, your godparents are your nanan and parran, the Cajun French words for godmother and godfather. Aunt Karen was not my godmother but she was my older sister’s and since I was three years younger, I called her Nanny as well. That was just her name and it never occurred to me until I was much older that she wasn’t my godmother too.

On Christmas Day, 20 years ago, we lost Nanny to breast cancer, after a few years’ hard fight. She was only 49. She lives on through her children and grandchildren and in the cherished memories we have of the most generous and loving aunt, sister, mother, friend anyone has ever known. I eyeball that measuring cup each time I make this pie and channel her precision for 7/8 cup. Her recipe hasn’t failed me yet.

Nanny's Pecan Pie


Ingredients
For the filling:
1 large egg
1/2 cup or 100g sugar
7/8 cup or 207ml clear Karo corn syrup (Just do your best.)
Pinch salt
1 1/2 cups or 180g chopped pecans
4 small pats of butter (about 1 teaspoon each)

1 unbaked pie shell (I use this recipe. Stop when the crust has been pricked with a fork, and come on back here to make the filling.)

Method
Preheat your oven to 300°F or 149°C.

Put your pecans in a large baking pan and pop them in the oven as it preheats. Set a timer for five minutes and shake the pan every time it rings. Take the pecans out when they smell all toasty and nutty. Depending on your oven, this could take 10 minutes or even 20. Depends on how fast your oven preheats and the toasting can really start. Remove the pecans from the oven and set aside to cool.

Beat the egg and sugar until yellow and creamy looking.


Add the Karo and the pinch of salt and whisk again.


After thoroughly mixed, add your cooled pecans.


Pour into unbaked pie shell. Put pats of butter on top.



Bake in your preheated oven for 50/60 minutes. (I suggest putting a piece of foil under the pan, for easy clean up, in case it boils over a little.)

Remove from the oven when the pie is almost set. It might still be just a little bit wobbly in the middle.

Food Lust People Love: Louisiana pecan pie is chewy and gooey, full of pecans and sticky goodness, in a flakey short crust. Nanny's pecan pie recipe is the best of the best. Christmas is not Christmas without it!


Allow to cool completely before cutting.

Food Lust People Love: Louisiana pecan pie is chewy and gooey, full of pecans and sticky goodness, in a flakey short crust. Nanny's pecan pie recipe is the best of the best. Christmas is not Christmas without it!


Enjoy!

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