Rich, gooey, and impossibly fudgy, this secretly healthy chocolate pecan pie is surprisingly delicious and perfect for the holidays!
Of course chocolate.
Would you expect anything less from a chocolate covered blog?
This secretly healthy pecan pie is the perfect balance of gooey, chewy, rich, and sweet.
If you can’t stop eating the raw batter, you know a recipe’s going to be good!
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Above – Watch the video of making the chocolate pecan pie
How do you pronounce “pecan”? I always said it pee-can (like toucan) until I moved to Texas.
There, people told me I had it all wrong, and it was pee-cahn, or even puh-cahn.
They take it very seriously down here… kind of like the “sprinkles or jimmies” debate.
By the way, does anyone say “jimmies”? I’ve never met anyone who does!
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The first time I made this healthy chocolate pecan pie, I used Mori Nu firm silken tofu, which added incredible creaminess and depth, not to mention added protein!
But so many people have asked, over the years, for a soy-free version that I went back to the recipe and discovered you can also use an equal amount of raw cashew butter (or make your own by soaking cashews and then blending until smooth).
So the choice is yours!
Chocolate Pecan Pie
Ingredients
- 1 cup raw pecans, plus extras for garnish
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tsp cornstarch or arrowroot
- 1/2 cup pure maple syrup, honey, or agave
- 1 tbsp sweetener of choice, or stevia equivalent
- 12.3 oz silken-firm tofu (Here's a soy free version: Vegan Pecan Pie)
- 2 tbsp molasses, or additional maple syrup
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 3 tbsp melted chocolate chips, optional
Instructions
- Blend all ingredients, except pecans, in a food processor until very smooth. Then add the pecans and pulse a few times until they’re chopped. Pour into a prepared pie crust, and top with additional pecans if desired. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees, for 45 minutes. If you serve the pie immediately, it’ll be very gooey (not necessarily a bad thing). But if you let it chill in the fridge, it firms up quite nicely the longer it sits. The pie fills up a prepared graham-cracker crust. If your crust is bigger, you might want to make 1 and 1/2 servings or even double the recipe. I cut this pie into 9 slices for the party, but that was because people often prefer “taste-size” slices at parties with many desserts. I’d say this recipe could comfortably serve six.View Nutrition Facts
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I don’t like pecan pie much traditionally, although a chocolate pecan pie certainly sounds more tempting. I DO like your photo of the pie piece from head on. It is so dramatic and delicious looking.
I say jimmies and always thought it was a New England thing (there’s even a reference to them in The Handmaid’s Tale, and that takes place in Cambridge, MA…). As someone else noted, jimmies are chocolate, sprinkles are rainbow colored!
*gasp* I have all the ingredients! Even the tofu! Haha~ I know what to make tomorrow 😉
I’ve never met anyone who uses ‘jimmies’, only sprinkles. Although, nowadays, nobody I know uses the word ‘sprinkles’ much anymore.
I call pecans puh-cons. I use to pronounce it pee-cans, until I watched that Honey Clusters of Oats cereal and a guy called them puh-cons. Now I use puh-cons and think the old way I use to call it is weird!
Hmmm…Chocolate and pecan pie! I can’t say I’ve ever seen that.
My Dad, who is from Jersey, says Jimmies, and every time I go down to the shore they always ask if I want jimmies. I call them sprinkles though 🙂
&& The new Vanilla Coconut Almond Breeze is amazing!! I randomly found it at shoprite one day and I’m hooked.
Mmm chocolate peeeee-can (how we say it in the UK!) pie sounds AMAZING! I can’t wait to make this!! I have never had pecan pie before, and I bet your chocolate version is even better than the original! 😀
We can’t buy vegan pie crust here I don’t think, so do you have a recipe for it? I could always Google it, but I was wondering if you have a good one you use? 🙂
I never met anyone that said sprinkles! Or maybe I have but at least not in my area! I live near the main line (I think you used to go to Bryn Mawr?) we say jimmies around here!
Yes, I did :). I actually lived in Philly when I was little, too… so weird I never heard them called jimmies! Or maybe I did, but I didn’t pay attention because I was too busy eating the ice cream ;).
Tofu in pecan pie..I never would have thought of that! Sadly, I try to avoid soy..is there any other substitute??
Maybe pureed dates… and then leave out the agave? Or… maybe coconut milk yogurt and extra cornstarch? LOL maybe pumpkin or mashed potato? Ok, that might be a stretch…
I know this post and comment string is like four years old, but I was thinking, I bet you could just add the cup of pecans from this recipe to your chocolate pumpkin pie recipe and you’d get a result that’s pretty similar to this recipe.
Haha, my mom says “jimmies.” Maybe it’s a Chicago thing?
Yes Katie! I love this. I have only one pecan pie reccipe and it is not very healthy! So I now have this for maybe a Christmas Pie. 🙂
Thanks Doll!
I thought you meant pyjamas by “jimmies”, because in Australia pyjamas are sometimes called “jim-jams”, but reading the comments it seems they’re sprinkles? To me, sprinkles are the long candy things, and we call the sprinkles that are little tiny spherical balls “100s and 1000s”. Oh, and yes, we say pyjamas not pajamas.
I LOVE LANGUAGE. 😀
Still, I find “jimmies” completely ridiculous. *sticks out tongue* 😉