Ingredients
- 3 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1 cup light or dark corn syrup
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 Tbsps butter, melted
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1-1/2 cups pecan halves
- 1 unbaked 9" pastry shell
Preparation
Step 1
Stir together first 5 ingredients until blended. Add nuts. Pour into pastry shell.
Bake in 350 degrees oven 50 to 60 minutes or until knife inserted halfway between center and edge comes out clean. Cool.
Chocolate Pecan Pie: Decrease sugar to 1/3 cup. Add 4 oz. melted semisweet chocolate.
Pumpkin Pecan Pie: Pumpkin Layer – Stir together 1 egg, 1 cup canned pumpkin, 1/3 cup sugar, ½ tsp ground cinnamon, ¼ tsp ground ginger and 1/8 tsp ground cloves until blended. Spread evenly in bottom of unbaked 9” pastry shell.
Pecan Layer – Stir together 2 eggs, 2/3 cup corn syrup, 2/3 cup sugar, 2 Tbsps melted butter and ½ tsp vanilla. Add 1 cup pecans. Carefully spoon over pumpkin layer. Bake in 350 degree oven 60 minutes or until filling is set around edges.