Chocolate Pecan Pie (Dairy Free)
Would you ever guess just by looking at this chocolate pecan pie that it's dairy free? I swapped plant butter for regular dairy butter and it worked beautifully! No one I served this to guessed it was made without dairy butter!
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 9-inch deep dish pie crust Recipe Here (you can use Plant Butter sticks in this recipe)
- 8 oz (226g) pecan pieces
- 1/2 cup (113g) butter or plant butter I used Country Crock Plant Butter baking sticks with avocado oil
- 4 eggs to make vegan see note*
- 1 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup (328g) corn syrup Try Lyle's Golden Syrup as an alternative
- 2 tsp vanilla extract homemade vanilla extract recipe
- 2 tbsp bourbon
- 1/3 cup (40g) all-purpose flour 3 tablespoons cornstarch or tapioca flour for gluten free
- 6 oz (170g) bittersweet chocolate chopped (see note**)
- 8 oz pecan halves for top of pie
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Blind bake the crust for about 20 minutes, until pale, but dry. I didn’t do this the first time I made the pie and wished I had; the bottom crust wasn’t as crisp as I’d like.
- In a skillet melt the butter over medium heat, add the pecan pieces and cook until the nuts are toasty and the butter caramel color. Strain the nuts from the butter. Allow to cool for at least 15 minutes.
- Whisk the eggs, brown sugar, corn syrup, vanilla, bourbon, and flour together.
- Sprinkle the butter-toasted nuts and chocolate over the bottom of the pie crust. Pour the filling over the top and then arrange the pecan halves over the filling to create a spiral pattern.
- Bake for about an hour, you may need to tent the crust if it starts to get dark before the pie is set. Let it cool completely before cutting.
Notes
*I have seen several vegan recipes that call for a starch or flax instead of eggs in their chocolate pecan pie recipe. I have not tried making the recipe above without eggs, but if you'd like to try it, you could test out one of these recipes: Vegan Chocolate Pecan Pie, Vegan Salted Chocolate Pecan Pie, Vegan Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie.
**If you need to keep this recipe entirely dairy free, make sure your chocolate has no milk in it.