{"id":1150,"date":"2021-03-24T12:48:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T18:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T18:50:25","slug":"mini-pecan-pies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/mini-pecan-pies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Pecan Pies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is way better than pecan pie!&nbsp; I LOVE all the brown sugar and pecan flavour. These freeze well too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ingredients\"><h3>Ingredients<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CRUST:<\/li>\n<li>1 c butter, soft<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 c brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 c flour<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>PECAN FILLING<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp butter<\/li>\n<li>2 1\/2 c chopped pecans<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;1 1\/2 c brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 c corn syrup<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp melted butter<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp vanilla<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"shortcode-directions instructions\"><h3>Directions<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heat oven to 350F<\/li>\n<li>Toast the pecans by melting 2 tbsp butter in a frying pan.&nbsp; Add the pecans and stir until the pecans are golden brown.&nbsp; Set aside to cool.<\/li>\n<li>Lightly spray a muffin pan with cooking spray.<\/li>\n<li>To make the crust, in a bowl with the electric mixer, beat the 2 tbsp of butter and brown sugar until creamy.<\/li>\n<li>Add the flour and salt and beat until well combined.<\/li>\n<li>Divide the dough into 12 equal parts and press into each muffin tin cup.<\/li>\n<li>To make the filling, in a large bowl, stir together the brown sugar, corn syrup,&nbsp; 2 tbsp of melted butter, and vanilla.<\/li>\n<li>Add the pecans and stir until well coated.<\/li>\n<li>Spoon the filling into the muffin cups until 3\/4 full.&nbsp; You will have leftover filling.<\/li>\n<li>Bake 15 minutes or until crusts are golden brown.<\/li>\n<li>Remove from oven and let cool for 5 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Top up each muffin cup with remaining filling.<\/li>\n<li>Let cool completely before gently removing from pan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<p>Thanks to my friend Ashley who is willing to try anything new as long as there is sugar in it!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is way better than pecan pie!&nbsp; I LOVE all the brown sugar and pecan flavour. These freeze well too. Thanks to my friend Ashley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7VfK8-iy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}