Pecan Pie Bars Recipe
Pecan Pie Bars
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Pecan Pie Bars
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 cup flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup butter, cut into small pieces
- Cooking spray
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 cup Agave Necter (or 1 cup light corn syrup)*
- 1 large egg
- 4 large egg whites
- 3/4 cup finely chopped pecans
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, sugar and salt in a medium bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal. Press flour mixture evenly into bottom of an 8-inch square baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake for 20 minutes or until lightly browned.
Combine brown sugar and Agave (or corn syrup) in a medium saucepan; bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring gently. Combine egg and egg whites in a medium bowl. Stir 1/4 of the warm syrup mixture into eggs; add to remaining warm syrup mixture. Stir in pecans and vanilla. Pour mixture over crust.
Bake for 30 minutes or until set. Remove from oven; cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Cut into squares.
*Agave is an all natural syrup from the Agave cactus and can be substituted for the corn syrup as a more natural ingredient.
**Adapted from Oxmoor House, January 2008
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