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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
Do you love a classic pecan pie but not feel like spending the time on one? These Pecan Pie Bars will give you all of those delicious fall flavours without the fuss of making a pie crust!
Looking for a way to use up pecans, have a go at making Old Fashioned Candied Pecans. Or, for a real wintery treat, you could try this delicious Pecan Butter Rum Cake Recipe! There are so many delicious ways to eat pecans.
Reader Review
Followed the recipe exactly!! Easy and absolutely delicious!! A keeper for sure!!
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill level: This recipe is very easy to make, especially if you have a stand mixer.
- Total Time: 65 minutes
- Variations: Try pressing the crust into a pie plate instead of a 9″x13″ pan and baking your bars in that shape. If you want the sweet and gooey filling of these bars but don’t really like pecans, try with another type of nut. Want even more sugar on there? Try this Maple Frosting or Caramel Syrup.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a stand mixer or hand mixer, a 9″x13″ pan, and a couple of large bowls.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Chopped Pecans: You can also try different nuts for this recipe, like walnuts, cashews, or macadamia nuts. Play around and see what you like best.
Eggs: The eggs in this recipe and essential for holding the filling together. Make sure you use fresh eggs to get the best flavour possible.
Butter: There’s just a little bit of butter in the crust, to help hold it together and make it flaky and delicious.
Sugar: The crust uses white sugar, while the filling uses brown sugar.
Corn Syrup: Corn syrup is going to give you that gooey, syrupy consistency in the filling. The recipe calls for dark corn syrup, but any corn syrup will be fine.
How To Make Pecan Pie Bars
This is a quick overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Heat oven to 350°F. Whisk 1¾ cups flour and the cornstarch together in a large bowl. Add butter and white sugar to the dry mixture and beat at medium speed until crumbly. Add 1/3 cup pecans.
- Press crust mixture into the bottom of the 9″x13″ pan and bake for 18-22 minutes.
- Whisk the dry ingredients for the filling together in a large bowl. Add in the wet ingredients. Mix well. Add the rest of the chopped pecans.
- Spread evenly onto the prebaked crust and bake for 30-35 minutes.
- Let cool and then refrigerate for 30 minutes before cutting.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Perfect Pecan Pie Bars
Toppings: Top these pecan pie bars with vanilla ice cream (or whatever flavour you enjoy on pies), whipped cream, or a drizzle of heavy cream or half-and-half.
Change It Up: Try different flavours in these bars! Maple, cinnamon, caramel, and rum are all flavours that would work well with the richness of this filling. You can replace the vanilla entirely, or even just add a drop or two of your chosen flavour. If you love cinnamon, sprinkle a pinch in your dry ingredients.
Nuts: Whichever nuts you choose, make sure they’re as fresh as possible. Stale (or worse, rancid) nuts will ruin the taste of these bars.
Storage Instructions
Fridge: Because these bars are made with eggs, they should be stored in the fridge in a sealed container. If they haven’t been gobbled up in 3 or 4 days, you’ll want to freeze them.
Freezer: Once they’re cooled and cut, you can put these bars in an airtight container or bag and freeze them for several months. They’ll be easy to take out and defrost as needed.
More Delicious Dessert Bar and Square Recipes
Looking for more delicious Bar & Square recipes? Try these out:
• Try these Magpie’s Bailey’s Bars during the holidays, especially if you happen to have a bottle of Irish cream liqueur hanging around.
• Craving chocolate? Try these Chocolate Cherry Squares.
• These Butter Tart Bars will pack the same gooey richness of Pecan Pie Bars, but without the nuts.
Have fun trying out this variation on a classic fall favourite and take a peek at some of the other dessert ideas too. Let me know how they turn out and which you liked best.
Happy Baking!
Karlynn
Pecan Pie Bars
Ingredients
Crust
- 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 Tablespoon cornstarch
- ¾ cup butter, (softened)
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ⅓ cup pecans, (finely chopped)
Filling
- ⅔ cup brown sugar, (firmly packed)
- 6 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups dark corn syrup
- 4 Eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1½ cups pecans, (coarsely chopped)
Instructions
Crust
- Heat oven to 350°
- Combine 1 3/4 cups flour with the cornstarch and whisk until combined.
- Add the butter and sugar to the flour mixture and beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in 1/3 cup finely chopped pecans.
- In a 9X13 baking pan press the crust mixture into the bottom evenly.
- Bake 18-22 minutes or until edges are very light golden brown.
Filling
- In a large bowl add the brown sugar, 6 tablespoons flour and salt and whisk until combined.
- Add in the corn syrup, eggs and vanilla; mix well. Stir in 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans.
- Spread evenly over hot, pre baked crust.
- Bake 30-35 minutes or until filling is set and a knife inserted 1 inch from edge comes out clean.
- Cool completely on the counter then refrigerate 30 minutes. Cut into bars and serve.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Ann marie Ikoma says
Thank you Karlynn,
This one of my favourite Christmas recipes. It’s simple to make and rich, gooey and delicious 😋
Ann marie Ikoma
British Columbia
Julie A. says
Tried this recipe for Christmas treats. My family & friends enjoyed it. I liked that it wasn’t too sweet and it was easy to make. The only change I would make is doing half mixture of using both the light & dark corn syrups for the filling.
Marilyn Wilson says
Followed the recipe exactly!! Easy and absolutely delicious!! A keeper for sure!!