For the best pie crust, cold is your friend.

Use cold butter, cold water, and chill the pie crust for 15+ minutes before baking.

Make the pie decorative.

I like to use whole star anise pods pressed into the pie dough to make a decorative edge.

For a flavor boost, toast the pecans.

This pie has great flavor, but you can always bring out a bit more toasty-ness by roasting the pecans in a 350 oven for about 5 minutes before adding them to the filling.

Serve the pie with whipped cream.

Add a bit of cinnamon or some five spice to the whipped cream for just a bit of extra goodness.

Five Spice Pecan Pie - Just Desserts Bakehouse

Name: Five Spice Pecan Pie
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups flour; 1 tsp sugar; pinch of salt; 1/2 cup chilled butter diced; 3 Tbs cold water; 2 cups chopped pecans; 4 eggs; 3/4 cup sugar; 3/4 cup light corn syrup; 1 1/2 tsp Chinese five spice powder; 1/4 tsp salt; 1 tsp vanilla

Five Spice Pecan Pie

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Classic Pecan pie with a twist! Aromatic Chinese five spice blend is used to enhance the toasty goodness of pecan pie. Serve with some sweetened whipped cream for a Fall treat.

Author: Darla McVay
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 55 minutes
Yield: 12 1x
Category: desserts

Ingredients

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For the Crust:

1 1/4 cups flour

1 tsp sugar

pinch of salt

1/2 cup chilled butter diced

3 Tbs cold water

For the Filling:

2 cups chopped pecans

4 eggs

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup light corn syrup

1 1/2 tsp Chinese five spice powder

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

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Instructions

Preheat oven to 350

For the Crust:

Place four, sugar, salt and butter in the bowl of a food processor and blend until it resembles coarse sand. Slowly add the cold water and process until the dough comes together. Roll out your dough on a floured surface and place in a 9″ pie plate. Pierce evenly with a fork, and bake 15 minutes until set.

For the Filling:

Whisk eggs, sugar, corn syrup, five spice powder and vanilla until well blended. Stir in chopped pecans. Pour filling into warm pie crust and bake for approximately 30 minutes until set. Watch the crust in the last 10 minutes of baking, and be prepared to cover the edges to avoid excess browning.

Cool completely, and serve with some sweetened whipped cream.

Notes

Chilling the pie crust for 15-30 minutes before baking results in a flakier crust.

When baking the crust before adding the filling, I recommend lining the crust with parchment and filling with pie weights to keep the sides of the crust from collapsing in.

You will know the pie is done when the edges become slightly puffed and the center is no longer jiggly.

Keywords: five-spice, pecan, pie, fall, Thanksgiving

Find it online: https://justdessertsbakehouse.com/fivespice-pecan-pie/