Award Winning Pecan Pie Recipe

Over the summer I was hanging out at our family yacht.  Who am I kidding, some generous family members loaned it to us for the weekend so we could get a taste of the high life 😉

One of the magazines on board had pie recipes that were submitted to a national pie contest.  I took a picture of the recipes with a note to make them in the fall.  The winner was this simple Pecan Pie and I made it for Thanksgiving.

Not only was it very easy to make but it was delicious.

Pecan Pie
Serves 8

• 1 Pie Crust

Filling:

• 1 cup light corn syrup
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 TB melted butter
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3 eggs lightly beaten
• 1 1/4 cup roughly chopped pecans, plus 24 pretty halves for decoration.

Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350. Whisk corn syrup, sugars, butter, vanilla, salt and eggs in a bowl. Fold in chopped pecans. Pour into pie crust. Arrange pretty halves decoratively aroun the inside edge of the pie crust.

Bake until crust is golden brown and filling set, about 1 hour.

Let cool completely before serving.