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Best chocolate pecan pie bars recipe! The perfect easy way to get that pecan pie flavor, with a little chocolatey goodness too! These pecan chocolate bars are everything you love about classic pecan pie, with a buttery shortbread crust. If you like chocolate and pecan recipes, you're really gonna love this recipe for chocolate pecan bars!
Servings: 16 bars
Calories: 300kcal
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Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups (165 g) pecan halves
Shortbread Crust
- 1 ¼ cup (156 g) all-purpose flour - measured by weight using a kitchen scale or with the spoon and level method
- ⅓ cup (73 g) light brown sugar - packed
- ¼ teaspoon (2 g) salt
- ½ cup (114 g) unsalted butter - (one stick) cubed and cold
Filling
- ½ cup (171 g) light corn syrup
- ⅓ cup (73 g) light brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons (56 g) unsalted butter - melted and slightly cooled
- 2 teaspoons (10 ml) pure vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon (3 g) salt
- 2 large eggs - room temperature
- ⅔ cup (120 g) semisweet chocolate chips
- flaky salt - for sprinkling (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line the bottom of a 9x9 pan with parchment paper, leaving an overhang for easy removal. Spray pan with cooking spray.
- To toast pecans, spread pecan halves into a dry pan and heat over medium heat. Toast, stirring frequently, for about 10 minutes or until pecans have browned and smell fragrant. Watch carefully so that they don’t burn.1 ¾ cups pecan halves
- Remove pecans from the pan and allow to cool completely, then chop them roughly.
- To make shortbread crust, pulse flour, brown sugar, and salt in a food processor until combined (see note below if you don't have one).1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour, ⅓ cup light brown sugar, ¼ teaspoon salt
- Add butter and pulse until flour is coated and mixture resembles sand. It should be dry, but come together slightly when you press it.½ cup unsalted butter
- Press evenly into the bottom of your prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes, or until crust is slightly browned.
- To make filling, whisk together corn syrup, brown sugar, melted butter, vanilla, and salt until smooth.½ cup light corn syrup, ⅓ cup light brown sugar, 4 tablespoons unsalted butter , 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract, ½ teaspoon salt
- Whisk in eggs, and then fold in your chopped pecans and chocolate chips.2 large eggs, ⅔ cup semisweet chocolate chips
- Pour mixture over crust in the pan and spread evenly. Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes, or until mixture is set and an instant-read thermometer reads 200°F.
- Sprinkle finished bars with flaky salt, if desired. Allow bars to cool at least 2 hours before cutting and serving.flaky salt
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Notes
If you don't have a food processor, you can mix your shortbread in a bowl with a pastry blender. It'll take a bit more time, but just keep cutting the butter in until the mixture looks like sand.
Storage and Freezing: Keep these bars covered at room temperature for up to 3 days, or refrigerate for up to a week. They also freeze beautifully—wrap each one in plastic wrap and freeze for up to 2 months.
Chocolate Pecan Bars without Corn Syrup: You can absolutely make these chocolate pecan bars without corn syrup! If you don't have any on hand, you can swap it out for maple syrup or honey! It will definitely change the texture a bit, and will add flavor, but either way these will be the best chocolate pecan pie bars ever!
Chocolate Chunk Pecan Pie Bars: These easy chocolate pecan pie bars are made with chocolate chips, but if you like, you can use bittersweet baking chocolate or semisweet baking chocolate, chopped into pieces. Chocolate chunks will create more melty pools of chocolate in this pecan chocolate dessert, so it's always a great idea!
Tools: To mix the filling for this pecan chocolate bars recipe, you'll only need a large mixing bowl and a whisk, and then a 9x9 baking pan lined with parchment paper to bake it all up!
You may also want to have a wire rack to help the bars cool more quickly. I also like to use an instant-read thermometer in the center of the pan to check for doneness -- the thermometer should show 200℉.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 bar | Calories: 300 kcal | Carbohydrates: 30 g | Protein: 3 g | Fat: 20 g | Saturated Fat: 8 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8 g | Trans Fat: 0.4 g | Cholesterol: 44 mg | Sodium: 128 mg | Potassium: 118 mg | Fiber: 2 g | Sugar: 20 g | Vitamin A: 304 IU | Vitamin C: 0.1 mg | Calcium: 28 mg | Iron: 1 mg
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