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.
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
Yeah I have burned cookies before, I was busy tending to the kids and forgot about them and they totally burned. The buttery pecan pie biscuits look amazing, will have to try making them maybe next week, Have a great Thanksgiving!!
I burn things ohhhh about once a month for sure. 🙂
So these look and sound amazing….Pecan Pie Biscuits! Yummmmm.
I am excited to try this recipe! I looooooooooove biscuits, but I was looking for a way to use up some pecans. My grandparents have a couple pecan trees and they did really well this year so I’ve got pecans comin outta my ears! This sounds delicious – can’t wait to make it… so much so, I might go make em right now 🙂
On a slightly related note, I will be attempting a vegan pecan pie for Thanksgiving. Hoping it turns out good or else I might be sending you my pics so you feel better!
Oh Chocolate Covered Katie – it’s soo nice to know you aren’t perfect in the kitchen…though it’s easy to think that. =) We appreciate knowing you have your ‘flubs’ too. Thanks again and again for sharing all of your wonderful experiments for the rest of us. Enjoy a blessed and wonderful Thanks-LIVING! =)
Oh goodness, I have so many!!
If they’re only semi-flubs, though, I still eat them ;). I just don’t serve them to others. As if I needed an excuse to keep all the chocolate to myself…
Sounds as if you like having fun in the kitchen. ^^
I once literally burned water while sitting next to the stove reading a book. (Yes, I mean literally. There was a thick layer of whitish-yellowish powder left in the pot, and nothing else. I’m the girl who burnt water.) My older sister once caused a beef shoulder to catch fire, and the BF once caused a red-glowing pot to explode by throwing water at it.
Oh my gosh, so many disasters! Burning things, breaking things, dropping things. I’m actually surprised that I am ever able to actually do anything right in the kitchen, lol.
Mm, yummy biscuits. I burn cookies all the time because for some reason it is hotter on the outsides of the oven than in the middle.
So excited for day-after leftover sandwiches! Kitchen disasters? Countless. More recently they’ve been “that just tasted okay, not great” which I guess is better than a disaster? Glad to know I’m not the only one!