Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars
These chocolate pecan pie bars have a brown sugar shortbread crust, and are topped with a caramel chocolate pecan filling without any corn syrup. They're buttery, chewy and so easy to make!
Ingredients
Crust
- ½ cup (113.5 g) salted butter room temperature
- ⅓ cup (73.33 g) brown sugar
- 1¼ cups (170 g) all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon (0.25 teaspoon) salt
Chocolate Pecan Topping
- 4 tablespoon salted butter
- ⅓ cup (73.33 g) brown sugar
- 3 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon heavy cream
- ¼ teaspoon (0.25 teaspoon) salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1¼ cups (120 g) pecans
- ½ cup (90 g) chocolate chips
- flaked salt for topping
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 and line an 8" baking pan with parchment paper.
- Start by making the crust. Add butter and brown sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with a paddle attachment. Beat on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add flour and salt and mix until crumbly.
- Press dough into the bottom of your prepared pan. Bake for 12-14 minutes, or until light golden brown along the edges. Set aside to cool and lower oven to 325.
- Combine the butter, brown sugar, honey and heavy cream and salt in a saucepan and stir over medium heat. Once it starts to slightly boil, simmer for 1 minute.
- Remove pan from heat and add in vanilla and pecans and stir until combined. Stir in chocolate chips and pour over cooled crust.
- Bake at 325 for 15-18 minutes. Sprinkle with flaked salt once removed from the oven. Allow to cool completely before cutting because the filling needs to set up.
Notes
The crust dough should be dry and crumbly, once pressed and packed into the pan and baked it will all set up.
Make sure you don't let your filling boil for too long, or you risk it becoming too hard once baked in the oven.
These are great without the chocolate chips as well if you're looking for a more traditional pecan pie bar.
I have given both cups and grams as measurements. Grams will be more precise, especially when measuring flour. If you don’t have a kitchen scale, no problem! Just lightly spoon flour into your measuring cup to insure its not packed in there. Light and fluffy is the key.
Nutrition
Calories: 250kcalCarbohydrates: 26gProtein: 2gFat: 16gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0.3gCholesterol: 24mgSodium: 145mgPotassium: 79mgFiber: 1gSugar: 17gVitamin A: 283IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 24mgIron: 1mg
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