Open car door.
Drive to Sam's.
Walk to the seasonal pie display.
Shell out $10.
Drive home.
Devour.

They really are delicious. And with the price of shelled pecans, since I don't have my own tree, it's worth it!

Make pecan pie without the corn syrup and with less sugar!

No Corn Syrup Pecan Pie
1 9" pie crust, bottom pricked with fork, pre-baked 375F 15 min. on a cookie sheet

5 eggs
*1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
Pinch salt
6 tablespoons butter, melted

1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup pecan halves, toasted
1 cup pecans coarsely chopped

In a saucepan, beat the eggs until foamy. Add sugars, salt, and butter. On medium low heat warm the mixture until hot but do not boil. Stir in vanilla and pecans.

Pour pecan mixture into the hot crust and bake 30 to 40 minutes, until center just slightly jiggles.

Let cool on a wire rack.

* If you want a more "dark Karo" flavor, reduce the white sugar to 3/4 cup and add 1/4 cup molasses or sorghum.

Nancy

I don't make it often, our pecan pie eaters seem to come and go (ie, my Sis's ex DH ;)). My nephews wife though asked a few years ago if it would be OK if she requested pecan pie for holidays, it meant 'home' to her (from Texas).
I'm the family pie maker, and I try to make sure everyone regularly gets their favorites when we're together so of course I now include it but its just a couple of times a year.

I've only used 'Dear Abbys' recipe....

Dear Abby Pecan Pie

unbaked 9-inch pie crust
1 cup light corn syrup
1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
3 eggs, slightly beaten
1/3 cup butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup (I use more) pecan halves

Heat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl, combine corn syrup, sugar, eggs, butter, salt and vanilla; mix well.
Pour filling into unbaked pie crust.
Sprinkle with pecan halves.
Bake for 45- 50 minutes or until center is set.
(Toothpick inserted in center will come out clean, when pie is done.).
(If crust or pie appears to be getting too brown, cover with foil for the remaining baking time.).

We like the ones where you layer chocolate chips in with the pecans. :)

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: Emeril's Pecan Chocolate Chip Pie

Is there any recipes for sugar-free or less sugar pecan pie recipes? Hubby is diabetic and I love pecan pie, I would like to make one that he could eat if he wished.

Is there any recipes for sugar-free or less sugar pecan pie recipes?
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For sugarless, you can use STEVIA extract sweetener. It is all nature made, NO side effect and lots of other benefit.

There is a brand called "TRUVIA" . The sweetener compound in Stevia, is stable up to over 500F(?). so it can be used in baking and cooking. SPLENDA, is another. But it is not nature made but it is better than other synthetic calorie free sweeteners.

Thanks, I use alot of Splenda, except in my jellies/jams. I wasn't sure if I could get the 'gooeyness' that pecan pie needs from it.

I think the most likely option is a low-sugar pie rather than no-sugar. I notice even the Splenda recipes rely on corn syrup, so clearly there are limits (i.e. the gooey factor).

How do you feel about agave nectar? There's a recipe on the food network that uses agave. I noticed one reviewer, who is also diabetic, further modified the recipe with the Splenda-brown sugar blend and then browned the butter to up the flavor.

You might look at something like that as a possible direction to go. If you did it as tarts or pecan tassies, that would further reduce through management of serving sizes.

Carol

Here is a link that might be useful: Agave Nectar Pecan Pie

I - like Dave - like a chocolate pecan pie. Actually, I like any pecan pie, but it is quite special with chocolate. I also made a maple pecan pie a few times with maple syrup - was quite yummy as well. But I have a bad habit of trying all sorts of different recipes, and not saving / noting them. Makes repeating the dish kind of difficult when I don't know what recipe I used, or where it might have come from....

Syrup in Pastry:
Syrup, is what gives the pie/pastry that stickiness. It is not just a sweetener. I like dark thick kind. Also, I add some molasses, for that smoked/burned flavor.

Could use Lyle's Golden Syrup. It's cane based, not corn based. Add some real maple syrup for flavor. Mmmm....

To seysonn:
I'm not sure how safe maple syrup is for the more extreme types of diabetes, but my dad was just on metformin, and he could eat the maple syrup. I replace the vanilla and corn syrup with the real maple syrup, and it is pretty divine!

My sister gave me this recipe at Thanksgiving. It came from a church cookbook. I have always had trouble getting the filling to "set up" in pecan pies. Not this one. It was yummy. She says that you must make a scratch pie crust or the filling runs under the crust and you can't get the pie out of the plate. It's a very good pie and not as sweet as many I have had.

1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 T. flour
2 eggs
1 T. milk
1 t. vanilla
1/2 cup melted butter
1 cup pecan halves

preheat oven to 375 (350 convection) degrees. Mix together sugars and flour. Beat in eggs, milk, vanilla, and melted butter. Fold in nuts. Bake till set.

Anyone tried xylitol in pecan pies? I use it for one pumpkin pie and one batch of cranberry chutney at Thanksgiving, for my MIL. It works well for those, and it is a 1 for 1 crystallized substance, so maybe??