Southern Pecan Bread is completely indescribable! Super buttery, sweet and loaded with pecans. Serve it with your morning coffee or as a totally addictive BBQ or holiday side dish everyone will love! Guaranteed to be a new family favorite!
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Meet Your New Favorite Side Dish: Southern Pecan Bread
Oh friendssssssss. I am so so sorry I’ve been holding out on you for so long with this recipe. It’s a recipe that I’m sure has been around the internet and at church potlucks for years, but doesn’t seem to be well known…at least in my little bubble of life. So I am going to assume you have never had it, or heard of it too…k?
This Pecan Bread recipe is 100% no joke. Like SO FREAKING GOOD. The crazy thing is that while it’s probably, mostly a dessert, my favorite way to enjoy it is as a side dish. Example: whenever you would serve corn bread, serve Southern Pecan Bread instead and watch people’s heads explode. No lie, it will happen.
With BBQ Chicken? Serve it. With coffee? Serve it. With Thanksgiving dinner? SERVE.ITTTTT.
With butter.
What Is Pecan Bread?
It’s a crazy combo of an ultra soft cookie, but also kind of like a bread. I don’t know how to describe it, but I have a feeling you will love it as much as I do!
The recipe is very easy, and I like to make it the night before I’m serving it because it just gets better when it sits overnight. The flavors and texture seem to really have time to get to know each other as it sits and cools. Just cut it before you’re ready to serve!
How to Make Southern Pecan Bread
The batter is sweet, and certainly if you have a nut allergy this is a recipe to stay away from. I know I will get asked if you can sub in chocolate chips for the nuts…and while you can, the savoriness of the nuts really balance out the sweetness.
Spread the batter into a lined 9×13 pan…
…and bake it until it’s golden at the edges and set in the middle. Like I said before, it needs to cool before you slice it up.
This one is pretty much guaranteed to be a requested recipe from friends and family!
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Southern Pecan Bread
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: serves 12 1x
- Category: Bread
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: Side Dish
Description
Southern Pecan Bread is completely indescribable! Super buttery, sweet and loaded with pecans. Serve it with your morning coffee or as a totally addictive Thanksgiving side dish everyone will love! Guaranteed to be a new family favorite!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 4 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
- 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 9×13 baking dish with parchment paper. Coat generously with nonstick spray and set aside.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment combine both the sugars and butter, mixing on low until combined. Add in the eggs, vanilla, and salt and turn mixer up to medium speed and mix for 1 minute until smooth.
- Turn mixer to low and mix in the flour until just combined. Fold in the pecans.
- Transfer mixture to your prepared pan and bake for 30-35 minutes, or until the center is just set and the edges are lightly golden.
- Cool completely in the pan, and then cut into squares.
Notes
Store, airtight at room temperature for up to 3 days.
If you don’t have self rising flour: 1 cup self rising flour = 1 cup all purpose flour = 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder + 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Square
- Calories: 473
- Sugar: 33.3 g
- Sodium: 130.6 mg
- Fat: 30.7 g
- Carbohydrates: 46.8 g
- Protein: 5.2 g
- Cholesterol: 112.8 mg
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Hi
I just made your Southern Pecan Bread in muffin form as one reviewer suggested. Very good!
I was wondering if you could use :
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
Would that make it a little less sweet? Or, would it affected the texture?
Thanks in advance.
Can you put a powder sugar glaze on top of this bread or any other kind of glaze making it for Christmas brunch
There’s no reason you couldn’t!