I know you just saw a biscuit post on Thursday.
But I wanted to post this pecan-pie version before Thanksgiving, as these biscuits would be perfect for Thanksgiving dinner! And they’d be even more perfect for “Thanksgiving leftovers” sandwiches the next day.
Buttery Pecan Pie Biscuits
(makes 8-12)
- 1 and 3/4c spelt flour (or white, or Arrowhead Mills gf mix)
- 1/2 cup toasted pecans
- 1/2 cup brown sugar (or coconut sugar)
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 plus 1/8 tsp salt
- 3 T coconut or canola oil
- 2/3 cup nondairy milk (Almond or soymilk is fine. Don’t use ricemilk.)
- 1 T white vinegar or lemon juice
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Pulse pecans in the food processor, then add other dry ingredients and pulse until smooth. Meanwhile, mix the vinegar and milk in a little bowl. Let sit for at least 5 minutes. Transfer the dry ingredients to a big bowl and add milk mixture and oil. Mix just until it comes together. Transfer dough to a tray, and knead a few times until it’s not sticky. (Sprinkle with more flour if needed.) Press dough into a rectangle 1/2-inch thick, and cut into squares or rounds. You can bake them on the same tray. Bake 14-15 minutes.
These biscuits taste like something between a biscuit and a scone. They’re good topped with a little vegan butter (and maybe some agave or molasses), or coconut butter, or perhaps even pumpkin butter.
Nutritional info per biscuit:
- 150 calories
- 5g fat
- 3g fiber
- 0g cholesterol
Speaking of pecan pie…
Yesterday afternoon, with the pecans still out on the counter from that morning, I decided to quickly experiment with a pie recipe.
Oh yes, this is a photo to submit to Foodgawker.com.
I can just imagine what they’d say in their rejection letter: Harsh lighting and/or overexposed overcooked.
No, I am not really going to submit it to foodgawker! I’m also obviously not going to be posting the recipe. (Word of advice: don’t sub agave for corn syrup, one-for-one, in a pecan pie.)
Question of the Day:
Have you ever burned anything in the kitchen?
Or had a cooking disaster? Oh, I’ve had so many kitchen mishaps: I’ve blown up oatmeal in the microwave, forgotten wheatberries on the stove while I took a shower, exploded a marshmallow while making s’mores, chopped up my Vita-Mix tamper (twice!), and once I set the microwave on fire by trying to heat a Luna Bar still in the wrapper.
Oops.
Can I use regular dairy milk in place of non-dairy for your recipes or does it affect the taste/ consistency?
Yes, you can… unless a recipe specifically calls for canned coconut milk. If it says nondairy milk of choice, you can use whatever you have on hand :).
Simple, yet they sound amazing! I’m loving these biscuits!!
As my mother would put it- buy cream, sugar, and chocolate chips for pie. Leave ingredients out on counter. Put teenage daughter in kitchen with ingredients… ALONE. Leave sheet pan from yesterday’s cookies in oven. Allow daughter to preheat oven while pouring what is left of ingredients into pan. Forget to tell her there is a sheet pan in the oven. THIS my friends, is a recipe for disaster. And probably the only recipe that you will never try again. I may or may not be that daughter. But let me just say, that mixture was pretty darn good- even if it never made it into the oven. Oh and since i’m home schooled, i counted this as a mini chemistry experiment. Not that my grades in chemistry have improved much….
p.s.- i chopped up the vitamix thingy at least 5 times and counting. Have i told you how much my mother love me? 🙂
5 times? LOL that makes me feel better about my two :).
The biscuits look amazing!
I can’t even name all my cooking disasters. The worst and most famous was when I made banana bread and left out the bananas. And once I tried to make almond butter in a really cheap blender. I blended and blended but the nuts never turned to butter-and the blender blew up. :/
I was toasting marshmallows on top of smore brownies ever so slightly when they erupted in flames. I hate burned marshmallows in the first place, but there was no salvaging the brownies, so sad! (And scary!).
I always have minor kitchen mishaps – I’m a messy cooker, I spill things, drop things, the blender gies crazy. Cooking is always an adventure!
Those biscuits look so good!
YES! Mega toast burns are the norm. Fire allarms go off from the smoke and everything!
lol ive always messed up pecan pies, til i finally found a recipe n chnged it up bc i just dnt wanna use cornsyrup so i used barley malt, diff taste but so good with some tahini to kinda blend some of that malts strong flavor n maple syrup ofcoarse n it was awesome n not soupy!
bahahahaha I love the blurb at the end 😛 I put a protein bar with the wrapper still on it in the microwave about 5 years ago (before I was vegan), and the microwave started sparking and the wrapper ripped to shreds 😛 dumb moment of mine. I’ve also tried putting veggies into the food processor ‘just to see what happens’ when I have no idea what to make for dinner and ended up with gross gloop that I would be way to embarrassed to post photos of. I know I’ve had more (dangerous) mishaps, but I can’t think of them at the moment, lol.
cookie disaster YES. I have never perfected cookies. I am horribly horrible at making them. my biscotti nearly burned our oven. and then there was the time about hard boiled eggs that I forgot them and all the water’s gone.
I put a birthday plate in the microwave and it lit on fire.. Who knew that the shiny stuff on those plates was metallic??
I burn stuff all the time! Especially when im trying to be ‘creative’.
Worst cooking disaster ever for me….I was cooking some home made marinara and dropped the pot on the kitchen floor and it made such a mess, not just on the floor! I was cleaning up walls and ceiling too!
I’ve been looking everywhere for a healthy/lowfat pecan pie recipe, and on one I saw that they used maple syrup instead of corn syrup. Maybe you could try that in your next attempt? 🙂 happy thanksgiving btw! Love your blog!:D
I think I need something thick… I’m thinking maybe brown rice syrup? Don’t know if I’m brave enough to attempt it again lol ;).
I burnt cookies last night – I think they taste pretty darn good because just the bottoms are a little crsipy but I made them to bring to a meeting tonight and I don’t think everyone else would appreciate the charred bottoms. Oh well, guess I gotta eat them all now 😉
Wow, these look superb! But I just realized, now that I think about it, that my family never has had biscuits on Thanksgiving – methinks it’s time to break that tradition with this lovely recipe! 🙂
As for my cooking disasters: last year as a High School Freshman in Culinary I Class, I mistook sugar for salt (an honest mistake, I swear!) in a sugar cookie recipe, and the reactions of the class – teacher included – as they spat the cookies out were priceless! 😀
I also put spaghetti in cold water (whoops), couldn’t figure out how to use a cookie press (it ended up breaking as the teacher angrily tried to firgure it out herself!), put chocolate milk in my tea, and burnt oats.
* mistook salt for sugar