Bourbon Pecan Pie

By Molly O'Neill

Total Time
1 hour 20 minutes
Rating
4(46)
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Ingredients

Yield:One nine-inch pie

    The Crust

    • 1¼cups all-purpose flour
    • 1teaspoon sugar
    • 1teaspoon salt
    • 4tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut in pieces
    • 3tablespoons cold vegetable shortening
    • 3tablespoons ice water

    The Filling

    • 3eggs, beaten
    • 1cup sugar
    • ½cup light corn syrup
    • ½cup dark corn syrup
    • ⅓cup melted unsalted butter
    • 2tablespoon bourbon
    • ½teaspoon salt
    • 1cup chopped pecans
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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    To make the crust: Place flour, sugar and salt in the work bowl of a food processor. Pulse just to combine. Add butter and shortening. Pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal. With machine running, slowly pour in water. Process just until mixture begins to come together. Gently press dough into a ball. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

  2. Step 2

    On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to fit a 9-inch pie plate. Place dough in pie plate. Trim and crimp edges.

  3. Step 3

    To make the filling, preheat oven to 375 degrees. Whisk together the eggs, sugar, corn syrups, butter, bourbon and salt. Place the pecans in the bottom of the pie plate. Pour the filling over the pecans. Bake until set, about 35 to 40 minutes.

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Carolyn

Add 2 egg yolks and 1/4 cup bourbon. It transforms a good pecan pie to an extraordinary one.

Kathy

Hi! Just to be sure, you added an additional 2egg yolks? Also, did you prebake the crust before adding the filling? Thanks

Wendy

Reduce sugar to ½ cup and double pecans to 2 cups

Susan

Made this pie to go along with our take out Thanksgiving dinner. It was pretty easy to make and was delicious. Everything you'd want from a pecan pie...thick but silky filling with a nice sturdy crust. Will definitely make it again next year! The only alteration I made was I used pecan halves rather than pieces.

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