Pecan Bars
Happy first day of autumn! I’m celebrating with pecan bars, what about you? These delectable bites are sticky and gooey with toasted pecans and sit on a buttery and crumbly shortbread crust that make yummy little cookies on their own, too.
Pecan Bars
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Author: The Squishy Monster
Serves: 12 x 7 pan
Ingredients
Crust
- 1½ sticks soft unsalted butter
- ½ c sugar
- 1 ts vanilla extract
- 1⅔ c unbleached flour
Filling
- 2 sticks soft unsalted butter
- ¼ c honey or maple syrup
- 2 c brown sugar
- 2 tb heavy cream
- Pinch of fine salt
- 1 tb bourbon {optional}
- 1 lb toasted pecans
Instructions
- For the crust, cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Blend in the vanilla.
- Add half the flour and blend. Add the rest of the flour and blend. Make sure not to over work the dough.
- Gather the dough and press it down into plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
- After the dough has chilled, press it down onto the bottom of a well greased pan. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.
- For the filling, cream together the butter, honey/syrup, and sugar until fluffy.
- Blend in the cream, salt, and bourbon.
- Fold in the toasted pecans.
- Spread this filling evenly onto the cooled crust and bake at 350 for 25-35 minutes.
Love,
Your Squishy Monster ^.~
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oooh I love the gooey nutty deliciousness of these bars!
Yum! One of my favorite fall foods.
Yay, love pecan pie and bars – they’re so addictive
Thanks for sharing this recipe with us Angie! Theses bars look so delicious!!! Have a great day!!
Love.
Les.
You too, Les!
Happy Fall, Angela! Pecan Bars are just perfect especially with honey since September is Honey Month around these parts, lol…Thanks for sharing, Angela…
They do look sticky and gooey and absolutely delicious… Pecans are not very popular in Europe and I think I have already forgotten what they taste like (they are quite expensive vs other nuts). I must try pecan bars one day!
There is never a bad time to down a few bars of these beauties. Nice!
Yummmmmy! I adore pecans. These bars look so chewy and tasty for snacking on
Fine Happy Fall (I am in summer denial lol) but LOVE the bars, adore pecans.
I love pecans any time of the year, so these bars are perfect
Oh, my. These look irresistible!!!
i think i would just put the filling on top of a white cake and eat it like frosting! hehe..that reminds me i have to bake some pecan pies!
A great way to begin fall, Angela! And the optional tablespoon of bourbon?
Bring it on.
For sure a great dessert to welcome Fall. They look marvelous!
I’m SOLD!! Can I have half a dozen (all to myself?)
Wow. This is one great treat.
These look SO good!! Gotta love pecans this time of year!!…. and what better way to enjoy them than in these tasty bars!
I want to eat that too
They wanna eat you! =)
Mmm, I didn’t even think of that! How delicious would that be…I’m thinking about it and decided it would be MOST delicious. Need white cake, stat!
I hope you have a delicious day, my friend!
Or it wants to eat YOU! =)
David will love these if I make them for him
Hi Angela, I just found your website. Fantastic! I just wondered what size pan you use for your pecan bars? It doesn’t say. Thank you. I’m going to try these, as well as your pumpkin cheesecake truffles. Yum!
Hi, Debbie! I’m so glad you’re here!! It’s a 12 x 7 pan =)