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stack of toffee pecan bars

Chewy Toffee Pecan Bars

4.82 from 11 votes
These chewy toffee pecan bars are part blondie, part cookie bar, and full on ooey-gooey delicious. The buttery pecan flavor is outrageous!
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Prep Time:15 minutes
Cook Time:24 minutes
Total Time:39 minutes
Servings: 16 servings

Equipment

  • 9x13 pan

Ingredients
 

  • 1 1/2 cups pecan halves
  • 2 cups lightly packed brown sugar (plus a little more for sprinkling.)
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled
  • 2 large eggs, room temperature
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla extract. Alternatively use 2 teaspoons vanilla and 1 teaspoon almond extract.
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 cups all purpose flour

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350F Grease and flour your 9x13 pan, or line with parchment paper for easy removal and slicing.
  • Spread the nuts out on a baking sheet and toast for 10 minutes. Let cool, then chop.
  • In a large mixing bowl whisk together the brown sugar and melted butter until smooth.
    mixing melted butter with brown sugar
  • Whisk in the eggs, vanilla, and salt.
    adding eggs to toffee bar batter
  • Fold in the flour until almost fully incorporated, then fold in half of the chopped pecans.
    folding in flour
  • Turn the batter into your baking pan and spread out evenly.
    mixing toffee bar batter in a bowl
  • Top the batter with the remaining chopped nuts, and an extra sprinkle of brown sugar.
    toffee pecan bars ready to bake
  • Bake for about 24 minutes, or until the edges are set and the center doesn't jiggle. The bars will look slightly underdone, and that's good. You don't want to over bake these.
    toffee pecan bars out of the oven
  • Cool on a rack before slicing into bars. Note: you can slice them into 12 or 16 pieces. I recommend the smaller size because they are rich.
    slicing toffee pecan bars
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Author: Sue Moran
Keyword: baking, blondies, dessert, pecans

Nutrition

Calories: 336 kcal · Carbohydrates: 40 g · Protein: 3 g · Fat: 19 g · Saturated Fat: 8 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 3 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 7 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 54 mg · Sodium: 164 mg · Potassium: 103 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 27 g · Vitamin A: 393 IU · Vitamin C: 1 mg · Calcium: 39 mg · Iron: 1 mg
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although The View from Great Island attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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