Ingredients
- Vegetable cooking spray
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 4 eggs
- 1 (1 pound) box light brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups pecans, chopped
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 13 by 9-inch pan with vegetable oil cooking spray and dust with flour.
In a medium bowl, beat the eggs with a whisk. Stir in the brown sugar until smooth. Pour into the top of a double boiler. Cook the mixture over simmering water for 20 minutes, stirring constantly, until it reaches 180 degrees F. Let cool for 5 minutes.
Sift the 1 1/2 cups of flour, baking powder, and salt together. Add pecans to flour mixture. Stir into the cooked mixture. Add vanilla and stir until combined. (The batter will be thin.) Pour the batter into the prepared pan and place the pan in the oven. Bake for 25 minutes.
Allow to cool completely in the pan before cutting into pieces. Store in an airtight tin in the refrigerator.
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By yatienzalu
on November 09, 2012
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Dry and just plain sweet.
By Bennett, L.
on July 19, 2012
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Love this recipe! Perfect combination of ingredients and easy to make. Turned out chewy which was perfect. This will always be one of my favorites.
By afsbus_11782869
Glenview, IL
on June 23, 2011
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I don't see why everyone had so many problems with this. I had no trouble at all getting the egg/sugar mixture to 180 degrees. ( I did watch the show and she DID say 240 on the show. So reading this, I knew 180 was my target number. It took about 10 minutes. I boiled the water and then put the bowl on top and I wonder if others are doing this. These turned out perfect. They are still warm and taste pretty good. But I think they could use something. Not sure yet what. I liked the idea of adding chocolate chips. Some butterscotch chips might be good or some caramel topping.
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