Toffee Pecan Pie

Hello my baking nemesis, once more we meet again....

Pecan pie is the one baked good I've encountered so far that always gave me difficulty. You may remember back last November for Thanksgiving I had to make an emergency Banoffee Pie to make up for the kitchen disaster than was my pecan pie. But, through practice and the tweaking of the recipe that is hopefully a thing of the past!

Now, because I live in Ireland I always had to make corn-syrup free recipes which may have contributed to the problem. Luckily I found a good replacement; dark brown sugar, condensed milk and golden syrup. They give the pie it's toffee taste but the condensed milk lightens it and stops it tasting burnt.

Hopefully this incarnation tastes as good as it smells


Perfect Pie Crust
Makes one 9" pie crust

• 100g butter, cold
• 150g plain flour
• 50g caster sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 2-3 tbsp water

Rub the butter into the flour until the mix in the consistency of fine breadcrumbs

(You can also use a blender to pulse it)

Add the sugar, egg and mix

Bring the mix together to form a smooth dough, adding water 1 tbsp at a time if necessary

Chill in the fridge for 30 mins

Preheat the oven to 170 C and toast the pecans for 10 minutes

Roll out the dough until it's 1.5 inches wider than the tin

Press the dough into the tin, line with greaseproof paper and fill with baking beads

Blind bake for 10 minutes.

While this is going on it's time to make the filling!

Pie Filling

• 175g condensed milk
• 150g dark brown sugar
• 100g butter, softened
• 3 eggs, beaten
• 2 tbsp golden syrup
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 heaped tbsp plain flour
• 150g pecans

Cream butter and sugar together and beat in the golden

syrup and eggs

Mix in the condensed milk and vanilla

Add the flour and beat the mixture well

Pour into the pie shell and scatter over the toasted pecans

Bake in the preheated oven for 40 mins, until the filling is bouncy but not runny

If the edges are browning too quickly cover with tinfoil

Cool in the tin for 20 minutes then remove from tin and cool 

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