Cook Up The Best Tasting Sexiest Pecan Pie Recipe On Earth
Imagine this – I am sitting with several of my best friends in the world. We are being served dinner at the P. Allen Smith #G2B12 Blogger Event and we have finished eating our lunch.
Suddenly a pie appears before me. It looks like a pecan pie, so I admire it then ignore it while we are chatting about gardens, gardening, and garden living, topped with a side of manure discussion. The conversation alone had me in heaven.
Then I take a bite of the pie.
My eyes get very wide. I chew slowly and forget everything we’re talking about. I interrupt my neighbor, look at him with intensity and say, “OH. MY. GAWD.” Angelic choirs are singing joyous pie songs. This is not a pecan pie – it is manna from heaven. No. It is the best pie I have ever tasted. This pie is better
than sex and I am not even exaggerating.
Slowly I turn to my other neighbor at the table and say, “OH. MY. GAWD.” Then I make everyone stop talking and take a bite. Everyone says, “OH. MY. GAWD.” Then there’s silence as we silently and ecstatically enjoy the pie while giving each other intense looks and rolling our eyes in pleasure.
I asked P. Allen Smith about the pie and he called the pie “Crème Brulee’s Culinary Cousin”. It is an old family recipe that he has published in his latest cookbook, P. Allen Smith’s Seasonal Recipes From The Garden. I asked permission and he suggested I share the recipe from the book with my readers (the recipe is below).
Special thanks to fellow writer, Carolyn Binder from Cowlick Cottage Farm Blog for the photo. I was too busy eating to snap a picture. Enjoy!!
How To Make Buttermilk Pecan Pie
Serves 8
Ingredients –
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, melted
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 premade pie crust, unbaked
- Glazed Pecans (recipe follows) chopped
Instructions –
Preheat the oven to 325F.
Combine all the filling ingredients in a mixing bowl, and pour the mixture into the unbaked pie shell. Scatter the chopped glazed pecans evenly on top of the pie filling.
Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour, or until set. Let the pie cool on a wire rack before serving at room temperature.
Glazed Pecans
Makes about 1 1/4 cups
- 1 cup pecan halves
- 1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup dark corn syrup
Instructions –
Preheat the oven to 350F. Line a jelly-roll pan with aluminum foil, and lightly grease the foil.
Stir the pecan halves, light brown sugar, and dark corn syrup together in a small bowl. Spread the mixture out on the jelly-roll pan, and bake, stirring every 4 minutes, for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the glaze thickens.
Remove the pan from the oven and spread the pecans in a single layer on wax paper. Let the pecans cool completely, separating them with a spoon as they cool. Store the glazed pecans indefinitely in an airtight container at room temperature.
*Note – Because the FTC requires it, I am noting that attendees at #G2B12 Blogger Event including myself received transportation, accommodations, and meals during the event. Event sponsors provided samples and product giveaways at no cost or obligation. All opinions are my own.
No exaggeration at all, this was hands-down the best pie any of us have ever tasted.
Seriously – I'm drooling just thinking about it.
Shawnwa
*drool* This is what 3 day weekends are created for.
Can't wait to make it
I want the pie. I miss the pie. It's the best ever in the whole world.
I KNOWWWWW!
🙂
S
Swooning. To bake ASAP. Thanks for sharing!
Shawna, I plan to try it. That Karo syrup recipe is just too sweet for my tastes these days. Though, as a kid I LOVED that classic pecan pie.
You are a goddess for sharing this. Ever since you first wrote of it I've been drooling. Definitely making this for my Bunko gals next month, and I may make an extra just for ME.
::HUGS::
Shawna
Love the OH MY GAWD! lol.. Thank for the recipe. Maybe I'll try this Oh My Gawd recipe for myself.
Yum! I don't like pecan pie, or pie at all for that matter (I know. So unAmerican), but somewhere between the photo and your hysterical description, I became convinced that I MUST make that pie! Sounds amazing!!
thank you (and P. Allen) (and GAWD) for this recipe. looks heavenly!!
BEYOND delicious Stevie!
Nom. Nom. Nom.
Shawna
Hi Shawna, I’m bringing dessert for Thanksgiving, but I have to make a 5 hour drive down to my inlaws… will this keep well if it’s made the day before and tucked carefully in a cooler?
I would say yes!
SO. GOOD.
Best of luck!
Shawna
We love it when you Yanks go on about our Southern cuisine which we sometimes take for granted. Pecan pie was always a holiday treat for us as kids and a good thing it was because we probably wouldn’t have any teeth left if we had it often 🙂
And this pie is a little different than traditional pecan because of the rich buttermilk infusion. Totally delicious in every way!
Shawna
Thanks! I was afraid the crust would be soggy as I have to make it Wed night. Can’t wait to drool!!! Thanks for sharing :))
Oh my word. That looks amazing. Gotta try it.
In the oven as I type. My does it look good. My husband will think he is culinary heaven with this and the left over Chicken Marsala. 🙂
I’ve now made your amazing pie twice. The first time I made it exactly as you’ve stated. (Which by the way, is amazingly easy. I LOVE your recipe!)
This second time I made it I changed it up a bit. I didn’t have liquid vanilla on hand, but we can get powdered vanilla here, and I added cinnamon, and one additional egg. It came out thicker and amazing. I’ll be making it this way more often.
Thank you so much. GREAT recipe!
Thank you for sharing this recipe and the story behind it. I made these into tarts and they were great. I had to blog about them, they were so yummy!