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Southern Pecan Bread

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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Southern Pecan Bread

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.

Southern Pecan Bread

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.

Southern Pecan Bread

Spread the batter into a lined 9×13 pan…

Southern Pecan Bread

…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.

Southern Pecan Bread

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Southern Pecan Bread

Southern Pecan Bread

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  • Author: Shelly
  • 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

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  • 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

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 9×13 baking dish with parchment paper. Coat generously with nonstick spray and set aside.
  2. 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.
  3. Turn mixer to low and mix in the flour until just combined. Fold in the pecans.
  4. 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.
  5. 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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91 comments on “Southern Pecan Bread”

  1. I made this recipe just as directed. It did not get done in center. I tried it again the same day and it did the same thing. The flavor is wonderful but can’t figure out what went wrong. Any one have this problem? It was very brown at 28 minutes. My oven is a convection and I always bake at shorter times then the recipe calls for.

    1. Sounds like you just need a few extra minutes in the oven. I don’t test my recipes using convection, I use a standard oven as that’s what is most commonly used. If you do try again, let us know the results!

  2. This is so delicious! Thank you for making it easy to understand and follow the recipe. I am going to keep this made in our house, everyone loved it and it is perfect with coffee. I can’t wait to try your other recipes.?






  3. Hi! I’m a little confused. It is a dessert, right? Or should it be served as bread? Also, I forgot what kind of flour I just bought. I put it in an airtight container and threw away the package. Any suggestions, since I’m not sure of the flour? Thank you.

    1. Well it is sweet, but we always had it on the side of BBQ and meals like you would serve a sweet cornbread. BUT with that said, you could cut it into squares and serve as dessert as well. It’s up to you! And I am so sorry I can’t really help with the flour. As long as it’s not self rising flour, you should flour the instructions as written!

  4. Came across this recipe on Pinterest and thought I’d give it a try. So glad I did, it is so delicious! Can’t wait to offer this to friends over Christmas as an alternative to the heavy fruit Christmas cakes favoured here in the UK. Thank you x






    1. This stuff is crack! It should be way too ridiculously sweet, but somehow it’s just satisfyingly salty-sweet. I cut the bars into little bite-size pieces and it was perfect for guilty snacking.






    1. You can use the whisk attachment, just make sure you don’t over mix! The whisk attachment adds a little more air into the batter, so just be mindful of that. It will be fine though!

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