I am very susceptible to suggestion. Because I’m always looking up and researching recipes, I also get a lot of recipes shared with me by the algorithms. A lot of it is gimmicky or annoying or a wasteful meme, but sometimes something good comes across my feeds and I want to give it a try.
Today’s recipe is one of those. It’s sort of like a cross between a pecan pie and a bark or brittle. It’s not hard and crunchy; it’s soft, but with a bit of crispness to it that just barely holds together. It tastes a lot like pecan pie, but with a different texture I found delightful.
This pecan pie bark is basically a pecan pie filling spread out over graham crackers and baked. It’s fast and easy to whip up, it tastes great, and it lasts for days (if you can leave it alone long enough.) I also found that, as much as I made it for dessert, it works great as a little breakfast snack too.
Soft Pecan Pie Bark
Equipment
- 9×13 or 11×16 Baking Sheet
- Parchment Paper
- Heavy Saucepan Or Dutch oven
Ingredients
- 15 Cinnamon Graham Crackers As whole and intact as possible.
- 1 Cup Salted Butter
- 1 Cup Brown Sugar
- 2 Cups Pecans Roughly chopped
- 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350℉. Line your baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Line the paper-covered baking sheet with graham crackers, keeping them close together so filling can't get into gaps in between them.
- In your sauce pan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add in the brown sugar and stir constantly. You want this to boil (at around 230℉), but not burn. Maintain that heat for two minutes. This is almost, but not quite, making caramel.
- Turn off the heat, add in the pecans and vanilla, and mix the filling well.
- Spread the filling over your grahams as evenly as you can. Try not to crush the crackers or separate them as you spread it.
- Bake this for ten minutes. The filling will spread out a bit and will be nice and bubbly.
- Remove from the oven and let cool for two hours, until it is fully set. It should be easy to break apart along the graham crackers, for nice individual servings.
That looks awesome. I’ll have to try it some time.
Thanks to my son and Jessie for sending a batch of these to me. I can confirm Hal’s assessment — they are sinfully delicious!!!