Brown Sugar Pecan Pie Recipe
This delicious pecan pie is made with brown sugar and is loaded with pecans and delicious custard filling, it's a favorite at our house.
Servings: 1 standard pie
Ingredients
- 1 pie crust
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup corn syrup
- 1/2 cup salted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt -plus more to sprinkle on top
- 2 cups pecan halves or pieces
- 3 eggs - whisked together
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 F.
- Line pie tin with pie crust and then set aside.
- Place the brown sugar, corn syrup and butter together in a microwave safe dish or in a sauce pan and heat and stir together until the sugar and butter begin to melt.
- Add the vanilla extract, salt, pecans and whisked eggs together with the butter and sugar mixture and stir well.
- Pour mixture into the prepared pie crust and sprinkle top with salt.
- Bake for roughly 40 minutes, then cover with aluminum foil and bake an additional 15-20 minutes or until the pie looks baked through and doesn't really jiggle much in the center (a little jiggle is fine).
- Cool completely before serving for the best texture.