A Halloween Treat: Maple Pecan Pie

Happy Halloween all! What are you up to this upcoming Halloween? Dressing up, going to a party, going trick-or-treating with the kiddos? Well while you decide what to do, why not make this wonderful and super tasty maple pecan pie?! I mean it is pecan pie made with maple syrup AND coconut sugar without corn syrup and it tastes AMAZING!! Now I used two recipe from two different blogs. For the crust, I used Primally Inspired's dough for her apple dumplings (original recipe here) and for the pecan filling from Deliciously Organic's blog (original recipe here). These two blogs have a wealth of information and recipes so please make sure to check out their original recipes and another awesome stuff they may have!!

Let's start with the crust!

Here are the ingredients you will need. Now I forgot, to put in there the coconut sugar, whoops!

Now let's get started! Add the coconut oil, dairy free milk, lemon juice, and vanilla to a medium saucepan and let everything come together as much as oil and milk can come together over medium heat. ;) Then remove pan from the stove.

Now the original recipe calls for arrowroot powder and I did not have any so I substituted with tapioca flour. Now I have no used arrowroot flour before so I am not sure what the consistency of it is, but with tapioca flour, is can be very gummy. So while this crust is tasty, with my substitution, it is not a flaky crust but a very tender and possibly a little elasticy (yes, I know this is not a real word) one. So add your sweetener, in this case Grade B maple syrup and tapioca. Now this looks like a huge blob of a mess, but as Primally Inspired promises, it will come together! And it does but I forgot to take a pic of it. Sorry, I made this pie as a request at like 4 in the morning. Now let the mess cool, because you're going to add and egg and egg chunks in a pie are not cool. So now wait a few minutes, go check Facebook or read some more of my blog posts! Actually should probably started on the filling. Sorry.....

Alright now that the mess is cool add your egg, mix around a little bit then add your coconut flour. See it is coming together now! Now you can roll out between two pieces of parchment paper or you can be lazy like me and just plop it is and press the dough into the greased pan with your fingers. There might be a little bit extra dough unless you're using a deep dish pie pan, then they're might not be extra, or you get all fancy with your crust, which I might do another day for another pie, but not today! :)

Now pre-bake your crust. I did mine at 375 for about 10-15 minutes.

Now let's get to the yummy filling!

Heat up your syrup til about 220 degrees F in a small sauce pan. Yea, have fun with the dishes, unless you have a dishwasher, then I am jealous. I digress... Now when that is a simmering add that to your coconut sugar ( I am sure brown sugar would be just fine) and butter (again, subbing with coconut oil or ghee will probably work fine too) and whisk away! Then add eggs and vanilla and whisk some more!

Add your filling to the pie crust. Then pecans. Put a crust shield on it with aluminum foil around it so the crust doesn't burn. Cook at 400 degrees F for 15 minutes then at 350 for 10-15 mins. The middle will be little bit jiggly but it will firm when it starts to cool.

This is a super yummy recipe, I hope you enjoy it and I hope you all have a super fun but safe Halloween!!!

Pie Crust

Please go to Primally Inspired's blog for the original pie crust recipe here.

Maple Pecan Pie Filling

Original recipe here.
Prep time: 10 min.
Cook time: 30 min.
Total time: 40 min.
Yield: filling for one pie
Ingredients:

• ·  1 cup plus 1 tablespoon Grade B maple syrup
• ·  1/2 cup coconut sugar
• ·  2 tablespoons butter

• ·  3 large eggs

• ·  1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ·  1/4 teaspoon sea salt
• ·  1 1/4 cups pecan halves

 Cooking Directions:

 
1.      Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

2.      Warm maple syrup to 220 degrees F.

3.      Pour onto coconut sugar and butter; whisk.

4.      Add eggs, vanilla, and salt; whisk.

5.      Pour onto pie crust; add pecans.

6.      Put a crust protector or aluminum foil.

7.      Cook at 400 deg. For 15 minutes.

8.      Lower heat to 350 deg and cook for about 10-15 more minutes.

9.      Middle may kind of jiggle in the middle but it will firm when cooling.

10.  Let it cool and enjoy!