Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie
Rich and decadent, chocolate bourbon pecan pie is an easy, gluten free, crowd pleasing dessert, perfect for your holiday table… or any time of year!
So. Thanksgiving is in three days. It’s pretty late in the food blogging game to be sharing new recipes for Thanksgiving, but here’s the thing.
Last year, the single biggest traffic day for my food blog was Thanksgiving Day. Mostly from Google searches like “quick and easy pie” or “what to make for dessert” or “Thanksgiving dessert not pumpkin.”
So Thanksgiving morning, a whole lot of you woke up…. with no idea what you were going to make for dessert.
YOU ARE MY PEOPLE! PROCRASTINATORS UNITE!
As I always say, nothing is worth doing if it’s not worth doing at the last possible minute so you get that fantastic extra adrenaline boost as you try to beat the deadline! Including deciding what to make for your Thanksgiving dessert… the morning of Thanksgiving.
And so, I decided that three days before Thanksgiving was not at all too late to share a Thanksgiving dessert. Especially when it’s as amazingly delicious as this chocolate bourbon pecan pie, which really deserves to be an Everyday Dessert and not just a Thanksgiving Dessert.
(Poll time: do you say PEE-can or pee-KAHN? I’m from the northeast, so I can PEE-can. But every time I say it now, I hear my southern friend Rachel’s voice, yelling at me that a PEE-can is what you keep in the house if you don’t have indoor plumbing, and a pee-KAHN is the nut that you eat.)
You say to-may-toh, I say to-mah-toh – but we can all agree that pecan pie was made to include chocolate and bourbon. The slightly gooey custardy center, the chewy pecans, the rich chocolate, and just a hint of bourbon… yes, yes, yes.
I normally don’t have a huge sweet tooth, so I’m able to show a lot of restraint when it comes to most of what I bake. Except when it comes to this pie, apparently. A sliver when I took pictures. Another sliver late at night.
The only reason I didn’t eat the entire remaining half a pie for breakfast is because I have a two year old and I’m trying to teach him that cake (and pie) is not an appropriate breakfast food.
How to Make Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie
Pecan pie is basically the procrastinator’s dream come true. Unlike an apple pie, which requires peeling, coring, and chopping all those apples, or a pumpkin pie, which requires par-baking the crust before pouring in the liquidy custard, a pecan pie requires no extra effort.
The pie crust should be frozen beforehand, but no need to par-bake — the filling is thicker than pumpkin pie. There’s no need to cook the filling beforehand, and nothing to peel or slice. The hardest part is chopping some pecans, but if this is too much, just buy them already pre-chopped!
This is basically the dump cake equivalent of pies: add ingredients to bowl. Whisk. Pour into crust. It just doesn’t get any easier. And the addition of bourbon and chocolate means it just doesn’t get any more delicious, either.
In other words, gimme another slice of this chocolate bourbon pecan pie. For breakfast or dessert. For Thanksgiving or a random Tuesday in the spring. Just gimme more, please.
Maybe with a dollop of whipped cream. And a glass of bourbon, please and thank you.
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Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie
Rich and decadent, chocolate bourbon pecan pie is an easy, gluten free, crowd pleasing dessert, perfect for your holiday table… or any time of year!
Ingredients
- 1 unbaked No Fail Pie Crust (see notes for gluten free crust)
- 3 eggs, room temperature
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2/3 cup light corn syrup
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 4 tablespoons bourbon (*omit if gluten free, or confirm that individual can consume distilled grains)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans, plus additional halved pecans for topping
- 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 °F.
- Fit pie crust into a 9-inch pie plate and crimp the edges. Place the pie plate in the freezer for 10 minutes to allow the dough to firm up.
- While dough chills, whisk together the eggs, brown sugar, corn syrup, vanilla, melted butter, bourbon, salt, and cinnamon, until well combined. Stir in the chopped pecans and chocolate chips until evenly distributed.
- Pour the filling into the pie shell. Layer remaining halved pecans along surface of pie. Bake on the bottom shelf of the oven for 45-50 minutes, or until the center of the pie is set. Tent the crust with pie shields or foil halfway through baking. Transfer the pie to a rack and cool for at least 1 hour before slicing.
Notes
Use this pie crust recipe for a gluten free crust.
Recipe adapted from David Lebovitz for Food&Wine
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You had me at chocolate.bourbon.pecan.pie !! This sounds lovely and lively, saving this for sooner rather than later. Thanks for sharing this recipe!
First, you friend is correct. It’s pee-KAHN. Second, I don’t see what’s wrong with pecan pie for breakfast. It’s not much different than eating pecan waffles or pecan pancakes covered with syrup, right? Besides, it has eggs, too. Those are a definite breakfast food.
This recipe looks amazing. I can’t wait to try it. Maybe because it has bourbon in it, I shouldn’t eat it until after five, though.
Oh my goodness yes please! I thought after Thanksgiving I had my fill of pies but nope! I am making this today! Lovely!
Oh, wow, what a combination!
My father lived in Georgia briefly, in his teens, and returned North with a passion for pecan pie – I can’t see it without thinking of him! This would have blown him away!
Every holiday season, our family loves to get together and make our best pecan pies to share with guests. I can’t wait to add this one to the list and surprise the family!
Oh this Pee-KAHN pie is so so yummy! and yes even I say Pee-can ..LOL
ooohhhhh!!!!! I want to grab a bite from the first picture itself! 🙂 This looks delicious and beautiful! I love those carefully arranged pecans on top !
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Wow! My sister and her boyfriend recent;y made a chocolate pecan pie. It was bonkers good. This recipe looks incredible. Love the addition of bourbon!
Add bourbon to any dish and I’ll eat it! Love this take on pecan pie! This recipe may just have to grace my dinner table soon!
Hahaha I totally used to be that person waking up on the Holiday morning and scrambling around for a recipe. I think this year was the first where I was actually very prepared, and it was so much more relaxing 🙂 This pie recipe looks so good, it may have to make it into our post Thanksgiving Holiday baking list!! Yum
So as a procrastinator myself, I am getting to see this recipe post-thanksgiving, but who is to say that I can’t have this pie and a tub of icecream to myself.
This looks totally decadent indeed! Pinning!
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