Easy Pecan Pie Recipe - Life's Little Sweets (2024)

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This Easy Pecan Pie Recipe is a sweet, delicious, classic pie recipe - perfect for the Thanksgiving table or any dessert table. You can take a shortcut using a 9-inch, pre-made, deep-dish pie crust and enjoy a sweet homemade pie filling. It goes great with a hot cup of coffee or tea. (makes 8 slices)

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Easy Pecan Pie Recipe

Hi Everyone, homemade pecan pie is a big step up from store-bought pecan pie.

Once you have tasted homemade pecan pie filling, it's hard to feel gratified from store-bought pecan pie again, hence thisEasy Pecan Pie Recipe!

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All you need is 1 deep dish frozen pie crust (just thaw it a ½ hour before you bake it) which you can pick up in your grocery's frozen dessert section.

They usually come in packs of 2 so you can make 2 pies or save the other for another type of pie, like my Pumpkin Pie recipe.

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Ingredients

  • 1 9-inch deep-dish frozen pie crust, thawed (take out of the freezer ½ hour before baking)
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 cup light corn syrup
  • ⅔ cup sugar
  • ⅓ cup unsalted butter
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 2 cups halved pecans
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Helpful Kitchen Tools forEasy Pecan Pie Recipe

    • large mixing bowl
  • baking spatula
  • optional: hand held electric mixer
  • rimmed baking sheet (to put on the rack below the pie in the oven while it's baking)

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I know you will love thisEasy Pecan Pie Recipe!

Recipe Attribution

This Easy Pecan Pie Recipe is inspired by "Pecan Pie" (p. 446) inBetter Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

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*This Easy Pecan Pie Recipe was originally published on 11/17/2017 and updated and republished on 2/4/2020

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Yield: 8 slices

Prep Time: 25 minutes

Cook Time: 44 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 9 minutes

This Easy Pecan Pie Recipe is a sweet, delicious, classic pie recipe - perfect for the Thanksgiving table or any dessert table. You can take a shortcut using a pre-made, deep-dish pie crust and enjoy a sweet homemade pie filling. It goes great with a hot cup of coffee or tea.

Ingredients

  • 9 inch deep dish frozen pie crust, thawed (take out of the freezer ½ hour before baking)
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 cup light corn syrup
  • ⅔ cup granulated white sugar
  • ⅓ cup unsalted butter
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 2 cups halved pecans

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, combine 3 large eggs, corn syrup, granulated white sugar, unsalted butter, and pure vanilla extract. Using a handheld mixer on a low setting, mix well (alternately, you can mix with a wooden spoon or baking spatula).
  3. Add 2 cups halved pecans to the mixture and mix until combined.
  4. Pour mixture into the deep dish pie crust.
  5. Make a foil tent to prevent the crust from browning too fast. Bake for 25 minutes and remove the foil, then bake for another 20-25 minutes. When it's done a knife can be inserted into the middle and should come out clean.
  6. When it's done baking, allow the pie to cool on a rack. Refrigerate after 2 hours. Enjoy warm or cold. To get defined slices, refrigerate to allow the pie to firm up.
Nutrition Information:

Yield: 8Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 558Total Fat: 34gSaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 23gCholesterol: 90mgSodium: 144mgCarbohydrates: 64gFiber: 3gSugar: 51gProtein: 6g

Please note that the Calculated Nutrition is an estimate at best.

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