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This Gluten Free Pecan Pie is the perfect decadent holiday pie, lightened up. Made with my easy almond flour crust, it’s free of refined sugars and totally delicious. Serve it at your next holiday gathering!
Gluten Free Pecan Pie
This gorgeous Healthy Pecan Pie might look difficult to make, but it’s actually quite simple. This gluten free pecan pie has a delicious gluten-free buttery crust, and every bite has that sweet, warm and gooey, pecan pie taste you’ve always loved. But this one? It’s made without any refined sugar or corn syrup, so you can feel good about serving this up.
Ingredients for Healthy Pecan Pie
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- 1 batch of my gluten-free pie dough
- Pecans
- Eggs
- Maple Syrup
- Coconut Sugar
- Vanilla
- Salt
- Butter
Preparing the Gluten Free Pie Dough
We are using our classic Gluten-Free Pie Crust for this recipe. If you want to read more about it, check out this post. While we typically call for chilling that pie dough before rolling it out, we found it easier for this pie to pat it into the tart pan right after making it.
Expect the dough to be soft like playdough. It is easiest to scrape it out of the food processor with a rubber spatula and then place it on a lightly tapioca dusted work surface. To prevent it from sticking to your hands, have a bowl of extra tapioca flour near by that you can dust on your hands and the dough to prevent it from sticking to you since it is soft.
Tips for Making Gluten Free Pie Crust:
Let it chill! The longer this dough chills, the better. It’s best to let it sit overnight, but at a minimum it needs 4 hours.
Get all of the ingredients prepared before you begin: Measure out the dry ingredients, cut the butter and make sure it is chilled and crack the egg with the honey in a bowl.
Don’t over-process the dough: Once it has come together stop running the food processor.
Wrap it up! Wrap the dough tightly in plastic wrap, either in 1 or 2 disks, depending on if you are making a double batch.
How to Decorate the Top of the Pie
The recipe calls for pouring in the chopped pecan pie filling and then decorating the top of the pie with additional whole pecans.Traditionally pecans are covering the filling below. However, you can garnish the pie whichever way you’d like. Get creative! We choose to lay the pecans in a circle around the edges of the pie, but leave the middle with the exposed filling.
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Can you Make It Ahead of Time?
Pies are perfect to break down into steps to make the whole process easier. The dough for this pie can be made up to five days ahead of time.
The filling must be made right before you are ready to bake. But the whole pie can be baked up to two days ahead of time. Cover and keep at room temperature until ready to serve.
More Holiday Pies
More Holiday Pies- Gluten Free Blueberry Pie
- Gluten Free Apple Pie
- S’mores Pie
- Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie (Nut-Free, Too!)
How to Store
Store leftover homemade pecan pie in an airtight container or covered with foil in the refrigerator for up to 2-3 days. Or, freeze leftovers for up to 3 months!
To serve, thaw frozen pie in the fridge overnight. Then, reheat it in the oven at 350ºF for about 15 minutes or until warmed through. You can also microwave leftovers.
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HEALTHY PECAN PIE
Ingredients
For Pie Crust
- 1 cup 98 grams almond flour
- 1 cup 120 grams tapioca flour / starch
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup butter cold, cut into cubes
- 1 eggs
- 1 teaspoon honey
For Pecan Filling
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1/3 cup coconut sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter melted, and cooled slightly
- 2-1/2 cups whole pecans divided (chop up 1-¼)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375ºF and place the rack in the middle of the oven.
- Make the pie dough: In a food processor combine almond flour, tapioca flour, salt and cold butter and pulse until the butter is broken down into pea-sized pieces. Add in egg and honey and process until the dough comes together. Scrape the dough out onto a lightly tapioca dusted surface, and sprinkle some additional tapioca flour on top of the dough.
- Pat the pie dough evenly into a 9” tart pan, using extra tapioca flour as necessary to prevent the dough from sticking to your hands. Chill in the refrigerator until ready to bake.
- Add eggs, maple syrup, coconut sugar, vanilla and salt to a bowl and whisk together until fully combined. Slowly poor in the melted butter while whisking.
- Finely chop up 1-¼ cups of the pecans and add them to the egg mixture, stirring until combined.
- Pour the filling into the prepared pie dough. Gently place the remaining pecan pieces on top of the mixture, as desired.
- Bake the pie in the preheated oven until the edges have slightly puffed and the center of the filling is just nearly set, about 30 minutes.
- Let cool completely before serving.
Notes
- This recipe originally appeared in 2014 as small pecan pie tarts. The recipe was updated including new photographs in 2019.
This turned out great! I love pecan pie, but it’s usually so sweet that one piece per year on Thanksgiving is enough. This recipe was wonderful because it is not sickeningly sweet. My crust was a little soggy, so I maybe should have blind baked it, but it was still delicious. I also added a chopped bar of 60% dark chocolate. 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing a healthier alternative to nasty corn syrup.
I don’t think that I forgot eggs but it is possible that they were too small for their size. I usually buy extra large or jumbo eggs but this time I used large eggs. Someone mentioned coconut milk in the previous older comments that’s why I assumed that it may have the missing ingredient. The top cooled down and became firm where the inside remained liquid. Could it be the egg size that caused it? Thank you
Hi Lexi, I made this recipe however my filling was still liquid and it never got set. I think the milk ingredient is missing in the filling recipe and the Oven temperature is still listed as 375F I like the taste of it even though it didn’t set. Can you tell me what I did wrong?
Hi Viktoriya. There is no milk ingredient in pecan pie, other than the butter. There are no missing ingredients in our recipe. Eggs are what set this pie, did you forget the eggs? It’s hard to tell what went wrong with this for you, without seeing you make it. How runny was it? -Kelli
Hi! I’d like to make this for Thanksgiving! Thinking of making ahead this weekend, baking and freezing? 1. Is that a bad idea? 2. Should I make this… leave it raw and then thaw and bake ? 3. If I bake and freeze then reheat… what would be reheating instructions?
Hi Olivia. I do not recommend baking and reheating on this one–sorry. You can make the dough ahead of time though. You can make that and pat it into the pan, and freeze it. Before you start assembling the ingredients for the filling, take it out and let it sit out at room temperature. Then fill and bake as usual. -Kelli
Hi Lexi! I’m doing your clean eating challenge and made these for New Years! I loved the pecan pie and would def use the crust recipe again!
Granddaughter can’t have butter. Can I use a butter substitute or coconut oil, chilled? Can’t have soy products either. And is the full fat coconut milk in the can or the refrigerated section
Hi Lexi,
If I wanted to make individual tarts, can I follow these baking instructions? Thanks.
Hi Lexi ! Can I sub grass fed butter for anything else ? I can’t seem to find it where I am
Any butter will work!
Can I use Almond Milk instead of Coconut Milk?
Yes. It won’t be as thick so I suggest leaving the mixture in the pot for a bit to thicken after shutting the heat off!
Hi Lexi 🙂
About how many servings does this recipe provide using one large tart pan? Just trying to plan accordingly for 7 adult/3 child guests! Thanks so much.
One large tart pan should be 6-8 slices depending on how big of slices you cut!
Insane, Lexi. Those pecans look glazed to perfection! Keen to hear how the detox treats you- I remember reading a while back you were having some digestive issues!
Wow, these tarts are just stunning. I am such a sucker for pecan pie, but I have never made it because I had no idea how to do it without not-so-nice ingredients. This recipe looks simple and just delicious. Definitely putting them at the top of my holiday baking list!
Love pecan pie and look forward to making this during the holidays.
These look delicious! I’m wondering if I have the correct pans. What is the diameter of the medium tart pan? The large?
Thanks!
Here in the south pecan pie is a must have at the holiday table. I love this recipe – the ingredients look great and I love that they are single serving so I don’t get too crazy on the pie consumption!! Thanks for sharing
Looks wonderful. But I can not have tapioca. What could I use instead? Thank you.
You can sub arrowroot!
What temperature should the oven be at?
Did I miss that? Updating! 350.
Gorgeous!! I can’t resist pecan pie for the life of me! 🙂
this looks delicious! you have a beautiful site 😀
I think these look so adorable, and they sound so much lighter than tradition pecan pie!