Mini Pecan Pie Food

MINI PECAN PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat 24 mini-muffin cups with cooking spray.
• Combine oats, flour, 1/4 cup brown sugar, and 1/2 tsp. salt in a food processor. Process until the oats are finely ground. Scatter butter pieces on top and process just until a dough comes together.
• Divide the dough among the prepared mini-muffin cups, using about 1 1/2 Tbsp. dough for each. Press the dough into the bottom and up the sides of each cup.
• Bake the crusts until the edges are set and light golden, about 15 minutes. Use the back of a spoon to press the crusts back down and up the sides (they will have puffed slightly during baking).
• Whisk eggs, maple syrup, pecans, vanilla, and the remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar and 1/2 tsp. salt in a medium bowl. Divide the filling among the crusts, using about 1/2 Tbsp. filling for each.
• Bake the mini pies until the filling is set, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Use an offset spatula to release the edges and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

MINI PECAN PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll the pie dough out into a 12-inch circle. Using a 3-inch cookie cutter (or glass), cut out 12 circles from the dough. Place each piece of dough in each muffin cavity of a 12-count muffin pan, making sure each piece comes up the sides just a little bit (you may need to stretch the dough just a bit). Transfer the muffin pan to the refrigerator while you making the filling.
• In a mixing bowl, mix together the corn syrup, brown sugar, melted butter, egg, and vanilla extract until fully combined; then mix in the chopped pecans. Remove the muffin pan from the refrigerator. Evenly distribute the filling (about 1 full tablespoon) between all 12 muffin cavities, making sure the pecan pie filling does not come up over the edges of the dough.
• Bake at 350°F for about 25 minutes or until the filling is set. Remove from the oven and cool in the pan for about 10 minutes. Carefully remove the mini pecan pies from the muffin pan and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

MINI PECAN PIES RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a mini muffin pans or cupcake tins with flour nonstick cooking spray or grease and flour them.
• Working with one pie crust at a time, unroll each crust. Use a large round cookie cutter (about 2-inches diameter for mini pies and 3-inches for cupcake sized) to cut circles of pie dough, rerolling as needed.
• Press each circle in the bottom of the prepared muffin pan.
• Mix corn syrup, eggs, sugar, butter and vanilla using a spoon. Stir in pecans. Spoon a bit of filling into each pie crust. Be careful not to overfill them.
• Baking time: Mini pies 20-25 minutes, Cupcake sized pies 25-30 minutes.
• As soon as they come out of the oven, check to see if any filling spilled over to the pan. If so, use a knife to carefully scrape it away from the pan. The filling will harden as it cools making it hard to remove the pies from the pan. Cool completely before removing from the pan, use a butter knife to help loosen each pie.

MINI SOUTHERN PECAN PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Place pecans on a food processor and pulse until coarsely chopped.
• Mix sugar, eggs, light corn syrup, dark corn syrup, butter, vanilla extract, and salt together in a bowl; fold in pecans. Spoon 1/4 cup pecan mixture into each pie shell. Place pies on a baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until pies are slightly browned, 25 to 30 minutes.

MINI PECAN ICE CREAM PIES

Steps:

• Toast pecans over moderate heat then reserve. Place pie shells on a small tray. Soften ice cream in microwave on high for 20 seconds. Fill pie shells with ice cream, mounding each shell up. Smooth edges of the ice cream pies and freeze 20 minutes to set. Remove lid of the caramel sauce and warm it, 1 minute on high. Top pies with caramel sauce and lots of toasted pecans and whipped cream.

PECAN PIE MINI BITES

Steps:

• 1. First, the crusts. Start by sifting together the flour and salt.
• 2. Next, cut in the shortening.
• 3. Now stir in your chopped pecans. Make sure these are nice and fine, but not powder or butter. If the pecan pieces are too big, the dough gets hard to work with and roll out. But if they're too fine, well, then you lose them...
• 4. Water gets added 2 or 3 teaspoons at a time. When I make this, one of the first things I do is take a measuring cup, fill it with water and place it into the fridge. Then as I need it, I pull it out, put a couple of teaspoons into my dough, and place it back into the fridge. As you add the water, use a fork to toss the dough.
• 5. It will take a few applications of the water, but it will eventually form a ball.
• 6. Lightly flour your counter or rolling surface.
• 7. Use your hand to slightly flatten the dough ball, then start rolling.
• 8. Because this is for mini pies, you'll want the crust to be slightly thinner than you would do for a normal 9" pie.
• 9. Once you're happy with the thickness, use a 3" cookie cutter to cut circles from the crust. A 3" cutter is the perfect size for lining up the edge of the crust with the edge of the mini muffin tin... I've also found that a mason jar lid (with the rims) will work very well if you don't have cookie cutters.
• 10. Follow your pan's directions as far as whether or not you need to spray or grase or butter your pan. I did not spray or grease my mini muffin tin in any way - but you might need to if you don't have a nonstick pan or if the nonstick coating has been compromised.
• 11. As you're placing the crusts into the pan, push down in the center gently, then ease the edges up the sides.
• 12. Of course, you'll need to roll up the scraps into a new ball and then roll them back out again to finish up the pans.
• 13. In your mixing bowl, beat the eggs lightly.
• 14. Blend in the corn syrup, sugar, melted butter, vanilla and flour and continue mixing until everything is blended well and has started to thicken.
• 15. Stir in the chopped pecans. For a normal 9" pie, I would use 4 cups of pecan halves; but since this is for mini pies, I chopped those up a little more and found that the 3 cups works better.
• 16. Use a piping bag with a wide tip or a ziptop bag with a cut corner to pipe the filling into the crusts.
• 17. Bake for 40-50 minutes until they are a nice, golden brown.
• 18. Remove your mini pies from the tin and set them on a wire rack to cool slightly before serving.

MINI PECAN PIES RECIPE

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, over medium heat, combine brown sugar, corn syrup, and butter. Stir continuously until butter melts and mixture begins to boil. Boil until bubbly for about 2 full minutes. Remove from heat.
• Stir in Fisher Nuts chopped pecans, vanilla extract, and kosher salt. Set aside to cool while preparing the pie crust.
• Either making a homemade pie crust or using refrigerated dough, unroll crust and use a 4-inch circle cutter to create hand pies. Re-roll scraps of pie crust to get approximately 24 circles.
• In 2 small bowls, separate one egg...with the whites going into one bowl and the yolk in the other bowl. Whisk each one separately. Set aside.
• Using a 1 Tbsp scoop, spoon warm pecan pie filling onto each pie crust circle. Use a pastry brush, and brush the edges of the pie crust with the egg WHITES.
• Fold each pie crust in half and pinch edges. Use a fork to poke the top of each hand pie.
• Brush the tops of each hand pie with egg YOLK. Place each hand pie on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
• In a preheated 425 degree F oven, bake hand pies for about 15 minutes, until lightly browned.
• Remove and cool on a wire rack. Drizzle with caramel and chocolate if desired.

MINI BOURBON PECAN PIES

Steps:

• For pastry, in a bowl combine 1 c flour baking powder and salt. In a mixing bowl combine the 1/2 c butter cream cheese and 2 tsp sugar. Mix until well blended, stir in the flour mixture, press firmly into a ball with hands. Divide in half. Set aside 1 half. On a lightly floured surface roll out dough to a 1/8 inch thickness. Lightly spray 2 twelve cup mufin pans with nonstick spray. Cut out 12 2 1/4 inch rounds, I suggest using a cookie cutter or biscuit cutter. Press the rounds evenly into the bottoms and sides of the muffin pan cups. Repeat with remaining dough. Then refridgerate about 10 to 15 minute.
• Meanwhile , in a medium bowl beat the eggs slightly. Stir in the granulated sugar, corn syrup, bourbon, melted butter, and vanilla until blended. Spoon a heaping teaspoonfull of chopped pecans into each pastry lined cup. Top with the corn syrup mixture. Be careful not to put too much, if the cornsyrup mixture goes above the pastry it can stick and be difficult to remove after baking. Bake at 350 degrees for 20- 25 min, until lightly browned and a toothpick comes out clean. Cool , and sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.
• Enjoy!

MINI PECAN PIE RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Mix together pecans, brown sugar, corn syrup and egg in a small bowl. Add melted butter, vanilla and salt. Mix together until fully combined.
• Lay out mini shells onto prepared baking sheet and add a few teaspoons of pecan filling into each shell.
• Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until set.

PECAN TASSIES/MINI PECAN PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• In medium bowl, mix together the margarine and cream cheese until well blended. Beat in flour, 1 cup at a time, until the mixture forms a smooth dough. Chill the dough while making the filling.
• In another bowl, mix the eggs, brown sugar, butter, vanilla, and salt. Stir in the pecans.
• Roll into small balls, and press slightly into the bottoms and sides of greased tart pans or mini muffin pans making sure to put some of the dough over the lip of the cup. Use a spoon to fill each of the crusts 2/3 full with the filling. It will overflow if you fill too full.
• Bake for 15-18 minutes in oven, until shell is lightly browned, and filling has puffed up. Cool, and carefully remove from pan.

MINI PECAN PIE

Steps:

• Beat cream cheese and margarine together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Slowly add flour and continually mix until dough is smooth. Refrigerate mixture for 15 minutes.
• Beat brown sugar, egg, cinnamon, and vanilla extract together in a bowl until smooth; add pecans and stir.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 24 mini muffin cups.
• Spoon dough, about 1 tablespoon per pie, into each muffin cup. Press dough into the bottom and up the sides of each cup, creating a pie shell. Fill each shell with pecan mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until pies are set, about 30 minutes. Cool pies on waxed paper.
• Melt chocolate in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly. Dip a fork into melted chocolate and drizzle over pies.

MINI PECAN PIE BITES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour (or use nonstick cooking spray) a mini-muffin pan. Set aside. Roll the dough or pie crust out on a floured surface with a floured rolling pin.
• Using a round cookie or biscuit cutter (approximately 3 inches diamater) cut at least 24 rounds out ( or 12 rounds of each pie crust, if using store bought)
• Carefully press each round into the mini-muffin pan. Use your fingers to round the ends into a pie crust. Brush egg wash from one egg to the top edges of each pie.
• Sprinkle a small amount of chopped pecans into each pie crust. Mix corn syrup, eggs, both sugars, butter and vanilla using a spoon or a rubber spatula. Stir in pecans.
• Carefully pour about 2 tablespoons of the syrup into each pie crust. Do not fill past the edge of the pie crusts.
• The filling will bubble and rise while baking and you want to avoid it spilling over if possible. This will make them stick when you go to take them out.
• Bake for about 22-25 minutes. If the tops begin to brown too quickly after about 15 minutes, you can cover the top with tin foil for the remaining time.
• Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes. Carefully remove from the muffin tin, if you need use a butter knife to slide along the side of the pies to loosen.
• Give a little twist and pull them out, and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Top with dollops of whipped cream before serving, if desired.

MINI PECAN PIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Mix together the granulated sugar, corn syrup, maple syrup, butter, brown sugar, whiskey, vanilla, salt and eggs in a bowl.
• Divide the chopped pecans among the pie shells. Pour the syrup mixture over the top and put a whole pecan on top of each. Bake until just set, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool.

MINI PECAN PIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425°F. From 1 box Pillsbury™ refrigerated pie crusts, softened as directed on box, unroll 1 crust on work surface. Use 3-inch round cutter to cut 8 rounds, and place on outsides of cups of upside-down nonstick mini muffin pan, skipping every other one. Repeat with second crust.
• Bake about 8 minutes or until golden. Cool 5 minutes; remove shells from pan to cooling rack to cool completely.
• In 2-quart saucepan, mix 1 cup packed brown sugar, 1/4 cup cornstarch and 1 1/4 cups water. Heat to boiling over medium heat, stirring constantly. Boil 1 minute; remove from heat. Stir in 1 tablespoon salted butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 1 1/2 cups pecan halves, chopped. Cool 10 minutes.
• Fill each shell with cooled pecan mixture; top each with pecan half. Serve immediately, or refrigerate and serve within 3 days.