Bourbon Pecan Pie Recipe (2024)

I love this recipe and completely agree on less sugar and using brown sugar. I like to soak pecans in Bourbon while I am preparing the pie and layer them on top after I sprinkled them lightly with a sanding sugar. Don't forget to finish off the Bourbon to eliminate waste.

I make a pecan pie every year, from my grandmother's recipe. It has been requested by many, and the only 2 differences between it and this recipe is the lack of bourbon and 1/2 cup of the sugar. 1/2 cup of sugar is MORE than enough, please don't use 1 cup!!! (And she always put in 2-3 T of flour, but that is not essential.

I incorporated the half sugar comment using light brown sugar and the double nuts comment. Absolutely the best pecan pie I have ever eaten!

I have made a similar recipe from Martha Stewart for years. But I use rum instead of bourbon, Lyle's syrup instead of corn syrup, and less of it, and a big glug of local maple syrup too. Dark brown sugar instead of white, 2 T vanilla too. 2 Cups of pecans. Gives a much richer, deeper flavor, less sweet. It is always a hit. The only part of Thanksgiving I really like.

Totally agree with many reviews. Less sugar (decrease by 25%), more pecans (increase by 25%), a little more Bourbon (increase by 25%) and more time in the oven (10-15 min).It is a great recipe! I had made it several times and the results with those changes are very consistent and amazingly good!

Lightly toast the pecans first before adding to the filling. There's MUCH more flavor! I do that with all added nuts - to bread, cookies, cakes, etc.

Wonderful recipe. Pie set up perfectly. I used 3 Ts of bourbon. The rest of recipe as written. Also had a bourbon with one ice cube while I enjoyed a slice of the pie.

It's not important at all to use half light and half dark when it comes to corn syrup. Just have it equal a cup. I have used all dark, all light, and combinations that are not 50/50 and it always turns out great.

I've baked this many, many times and I agree with you 35 - 45 minutes is NOT enough time. I've found success at 60 minutes. I also cut three strips of foil and put it around the pie crust before I start to bake it. This prevents the crust from burning. I too use a little more than a 1/2 cup sugar with good results. Good luck if you try this again. Happy Thanksgiving.

LOVE this recipe with 3 tweaks:1) used less sugar and mixed types just for kicks - 1/4 cup dark brown sugar, 1/4 cup light brown sugar, 1/4 cup granulated white sugar 2) double the bourbon - used 4 tablespoons of Jim Beam bourbon whisky3) a bit more pecans - 1 1/4 cups as called for in the recipe plus a handful - plus arranged whole pecans in 2 concentric circles floating on top as one cook suggested - it was lovelyMaybe I'll do a Mayan calendar pecan arrangement next year.

Brother-in-law deemed it "heaven in a pie pan" ... Took advice in other comments: cut sugar to 1/2 cup and used light brown. Also added extra nuts. This is going to become my legacy pecan pie!

Try this: Separate the eggs. Beat the whites until stiff, then gently fold them into the mixture with a spatula. The pie will have a thin, wonderfully crispy merengue-like crust on top.

This pie was one of the best things I have EVER MADE. Everyone loved it and raved over it. I followed what others said to do and used Brown Sugar instead of white....doubled the pecans and used a frozen pie crust. It was terrific!

Fabulous pie. Used Jack Daniels instead of Bourbon, because that's what we had on hand. As someone who often falls prey to Thanksgiving pie recipes with lots of doo-dads, extra this and special candied ginger, and cookies in the crust, etc., etc., I really appreciated the simplicity of this recipe. Will definitely make it again. I made Melissa Clark's all-butter crust. My 14-year-old daughter did the filling. Delicious and successful mother-daughter project.

Just as you can make brown sugar by adding molasses to white sugar, so, too, can you make dark corn syrup from light. I put a couple of tablespoons of molasses in the bottom of my measuring cup before filling with light corn syrup for an added depth of flavor.

I made this recipe yesterday with the modification of reducing the sugar to 1/2 cup after reading the comments and checking other similar recipes. It came out plenty sweet. Was a little lacking in bourbon flavor, but otherwise good. I may increase that just a bit next time.

I make this recipe just as is, except that I use pecan halves, rather than chopped pecans, and lay them out in (reasonably) tidy patterns. I use all the sugar as that was how I first made it, and it is loved and requested so regularly that I dare not change it!

As someone who usually doesn't reach for pecan pie, I tried this for Thanksgiving. Everyone LOVED it! The tips from others make this a success, toast the pecans, then soak them in the bourbon while prepping the rest. Substitute the white sugar for 1/2 cup of brown sugar. The result is such amazing flavor and it's not to sweet as some can be. Loved it. Will make this again.

Fantastic! Definitely the go to pecan pie for Thanksgiving!

This was just ok for me; I missed the depth that a little brown sugar adds; I didn't think there was anything special about mixing syrups. And I have better success with a lower temp and longer bake time, it sets up better; on this one the top burned while it was still raw, even with tenting. I use this filling in Alton Brown's pecan tart shell, it's delicious! (and pretty!)

I neglected to say that I used Melissa Clark's Pie Crust with Plugra butter for the Bourbon Pecan pie with very good results. I used a 10" deep pie plate, so I increased the amt. of ingredients by 50% in order to be sure I had enough dough. I chilled that dough an hour, but feel I could have gone longer than that. I will wait longer next time. I only do a pie or two around Nov. and Dec. I wanted to up my crust game, I suppose. I used the 10" deep pie pan because I'd increased pecans.

I've made this pie 3x to date. While I do think you need less sugar, I love the pie either way. My husband not so much - too sweet. I reduced the sugar by 1.5 Tbl & increased the amt of pecans by abt 1 cup +. While he didn't complain, he still finds it too much. I plan to make it again but use half the amt of sugar. The next time I'll also write down precise amt of nuts since I increased those - and I almost never change a recipe. That 2 TBL of bourbon worked very well though! Good pie!

Fantastic pie...made the filling exactly as written, used my own pie crust recipe and it was a total hit for Thanksgiving dinner. The bourbon (used Bullet Bourbon) and two kinds of corn syrup made it special...and that is A LOT coming from a KY Bourbon Country gal

This was a big hit at Thanksgiving this year (2023). Per the comments, I substituted 1/4 c each of light and dark brown sugar for the white sugar, and increased the pecans to 2 c. I also toasted the pecans the day before. Everything else was according to the recipe. Definitely saving this one.

I found it! - the perfect tasting pecan pie - rich and nutty, buttery, chewy throughout - without all that clotty, sicky-sweet gel that plops out of other pecan pies. Thank you all for the notes - I doubled the chopped pecans and toasted them, halved the sugar (and used all light brown - medium packed), with 3 Tbsp good bourbon. I stayed with the recipe’s equal amount of light and dark syrup. I used Rose Beranbaum’s cream cheese pie crust recipe. Truly delicious and balanced pecan pie!

I made this for Thanksgiving and followed the recipe exactly. 2 people in the party said they didn't particularly like Pecan Pie but they loved this one. The only thing I did was bake it for an extra 7 minutes to get it to set around the edges.

My family and I loved this pie. I substituted molasses for the dark corn syrup. We topped it with whipped cream with bourbon.

This reminded me of the bourbon balls my mother-in-law used to make. Very rich and tasty. Needless to say, my husband absolutely loved it. I did read the comments and so added only half the sugar. A keeper!

Try it with half sugar and bake an hour. 1st time with full directions it was very runny