Mini Pecan Pies – Sally’s Baking Dependancy

These mini pecan pies are tailored from my grandmother’s pecan pie recipe. Made with my favourite home made pie crust and a salted pecan filling, they’re at all times a welcome salty-sweet addition to any vacation dessert unfold.

One reader, Megan, commented: “…Adopted the recipe precisely they usually turned out nice! My 3yo helped me lower out the pie dough circles and put them within the tin, and helped me combine the filling too. Nice household baking exercise! ★★★★★”

Pecan pie is a quintessential Thanksgiving pie. Although nothing will ever beat basic apple pie or creamy pumpkin pie in my thoughts, conventional pecan pie holds a really particular place in my coronary heart. My late grandmother made it like nobody else. I launched this web site 2 weeks after her passing in 2011, and he or she stays an incredible inspiration and motivation for my work. I treasure her handwritten recipes, and it’s a real pleasure to honor her legacy by means of baking.

At present I’m taking my grandma’s timeless pecan pie recipe and giving it somewhat twist—and by little, I truly imply little. How cute are these?!

Huge Issues to Love About These Mini Pecan Pies

• Not overly candy: I discover that almost all pecan pies lack a complexity of flavors. Including a contact of coarse sea salt to those mini pies makes every chunk rather more attention-grabbing.
• They’re cute: I’m undecided why tiny issues are so cute, they only are! Folks love little bite-sized pies.
• Simpler than an everyday pie: If full-size pies intimidate you, this can be a excellent pie answer. Little pecan pies are very forgiving, and this recipe lends itself to nice pie-making follow.
• No corn syrup: Merely don’t want it.
• Make-ahead recipe: These are an exquisite choice in the event you’re searching for a make-ahead dessert recipe, as a result of they freeze exceptionally properly.

Tailored From My Favourite Pecan Pie

Seize These Elements:

I’ve examined many, many pecan pie recipes, and I can confidently say that this mixture of substances produces the best-tasting mini pecan pies.

Begin With the Dough

• Make pie dough. This pie crust is my go-to recipe, constructed from a mixture of butter and shortening. Shortening creates a flaky, tender, melt-in-your mouth crust, whereas butter imparts unparalleled, impeccable taste. My butter + shortening pie crust is the perfect of each worlds. If desired, you need to use all-butter pie crust as an alternative. Make the pie dough, after which refrigerate it for at the very least 2 hours. You are able to do this a number of days upfront if wanted.
• Roll out pie crust dough.
• Reduce dough into small circles. Reduce 24 rounds utilizing a 2.75-inch (7cm) biscuit/cookie cutter. You need to use a 3-inch cutter if that’s all you will have, which is what I exploit to make biscuits, however you’ll have somewhat little bit of overhang. Re-roll the dough scraps a number of instances. Work rapidly, because the dough turns into extra delicate the longer it sits at room temperature. That is precisely how I prep mini quiche and mini pumpkin pies, too, although I make these rounds somewhat bigger in comparison with these recipes, since you want a deeper crust to carry the chunky filling.
• Place the dough rounds into greased mini muffin pan. Press the dough flat into the underside of the crevice and all the way in which up the perimeters. Chill for a couple of minutes because the oven preheats, to set the crust’s form.
• Par-bake crusts. Simply 7 minutes, but it surely makes an enormous distinction!

Now for the Mini Pecan Pie Filling

Combine filling substances collectively, then spoon a heaping teaspoon of filling into every pre-baked mini pie crust. Sprinkle the tops with coarse salt earlier than baking.

Necessary to notice: Because the mini pies bake, the filling puffs up and will spill onto the perimeters. That’s OK—it creates an irresistible brown-sugared crust.

Let the mini pies cool utterly within the pan earlier than serving.

FAQ: Why Do the Tops Generally Get a Frosted Look to Them?

If the tops of your mini pecan pies tackle a frosty look after baking, it’s probably as a result of the egg white frothed up when the filling substances have been whisked collectively.

Once you whisk collectively the substances, stir very gently, not vigorously; then, change to a spatula to fold within the pecans. (Or stir entire factor with a spoon or spatula as an alternative of a whisk.) Vigorous whisking froths up the egg white and causes the floor to crust over with a white frosted look. They’ll nonetheless style great—it’s only a completely different aesthetic.

Make Them Barely Bigger in a 12-Rely Muffin Pan

If you wish to make bigger individual-sized pecan pies, you may make these in a regular 12-count muffin pan. You want a spherical cookie cutter that’s 3.75–4 inches (9.5–10cm) in diameter. (3.5 inches is simply too small.) You’ll have sufficient pie dough to get about 14 crusts this measurement, however the filling solely makes sufficient to fill 10. So that you’ll have some leftover pie dough scraps, which you need to use for pie crust designs on one other pie, or freeze to make use of one other time. See recipe Notice for bigger mini pecan pies directions.

Extra Handheld Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes

For much more Thanksgiving dessert inspiration, see my favourite Thanksgiving pie recipes.

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