Pecan Pie!!

 I was reading one of those silly mystery novels about old ladies who cook and bake and make tea and solve crimes and there was a recipe for pecan pie at the end of it. I had never even considered the fact that I might be able to make my own pecan pie. It seems like one of those extremely complicated desserts and I was surprised at how easy it looked so of course I had to give it a try. It was not difficult at all the most difficult part was making sure not to leave the pecans toasting in the oven too long and burn them..which of course I did ... but I saved enough not burnt ones to make it anyways and it still turned out wonderfully.

 Ingredients For Pie Crust

• 1 1/4 cup almond flour
• 3/4 cup coconut flour
• 1/4 cup butter -melted
• 1 egg
• 6 TBSP apple sauce -more if still too dry
• pinch salt

 Instructions

1. PReheat oven to 350 F. Combine flours and salt first.
2.  Stir in egg and butter to get coarse mealy texture.
3. Slowly add apple sauce until you get a thickness that will be able to be pressed into a greased pie pan without falling apart. Adjust amount of apple sauce needed as necessary. * Note this crust ends up as a soft crust not a crispy one, I suspect if you used all butter instead of applesauce and cut out the egg it would be much crisper but I didn't want to use that much butter as there is also butter in the pie itself.*
4. Bake crust in oven for 20 min while you prepare the filling.

Filling Ingredients 

• 1 1/3 cups pecans
  1/2 cup melted butter
  3 lightly beaten eggs 
• 1 1/4 cups Honey
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

 

Instructions

1. Place pecans on baking pan and roast in oven for ~3 minutes checking very often ( my recipe said 6-7 minutes but that turned out to be too long so best to check to see if they are slightly browned and smell nice and remove them before they become too dark).
2. Mix together butter,eggs,honey, salt and vanilla, whisk until smooth.
3. Mix pecans into filling mixture and pour into prepared pie crust. Place pie in oven turn up temperature to 400 F and bake for 10 minutes to crisp outside. Cover pie with tin foil so crust doesn't burn and then turn temperature back down to 350 and bake for 35-40 minutes.