Ingredients
- 1 9-inch pie crust deep dish, frozen, store-bought
- 1 ½ cups pecan pieces chopped small
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons salted butter softened
- ¾ cup white Karo syrup
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- ½ teaspoon salt
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Sharp Chef's Knives For chopping the pecans into small pieces
Cutting Boards For cutting -- but they are also so beautiful. I love them as decoration!
Hand Mixer This is the kind of hand mixer I use
Farberware Mixing Bowls You see these in my videos all the time!
Method Start Cooking
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Leave the frozen crust in its own pan and set it on a baking sheet — it makes the pie easy to move in and out of the oven.
- Chop the pecan pieces down a little smaller. For pie, I like them pretty small and bite-sized.
- Put the pecans, sugar, eggs, butter, corn syrup, vanilla, and salt in a medium mixing bowl. Everything goes in at once — except the crust, of course.
- Mix well with a hand mixer until the filling is completely combined and the sugar has dissolved into the eggs.
- Pour the mixture into the pie shell and spread the pecans out evenly across the top.
- Bake at 350°F for 45 to 55 minutes, until the pie is golden brown and the center is set with just the slightest jiggle.
- Cool on the counter for at least 2 hours before slicing. The filling finishes setting as it cools, and cutting it warm will run.
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Notes
Yes, I use a store-bought crust! They are just as tasty and they save this busy mom a lot of time. It is still homemade pie and it is still absolutely delicious. I use the Walmart brand deep dish, and it goes into the oven straight from the freezer with no thawing and no blind baking.
Save this one for the holidays. If you can dump, stir, and pour, you can make this pie. Chop your pecans small so every bite gets some, and if the edges of the crust start getting dark before the center sets, tent a strip of foil around the rim for the last 10 minutes.
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