Growing up, I didn’t like pecan pie. I was a pumpkin girl all the way and pecan pie (and Minced Meat) were the adult pies.
Not for this little girl!
And while I still don’t do minced meat pies, I have grown rather fond of pecan pie.
Maybe my taste buds just grew up!
It all started at a Thanksgiving dinner one year at the in-laws. My niece (Hi Kris!), brought the pecan pie that year. She had thrown in a handful of chocolate chips onto the crust before she added her filling and baked it..
That was all it took to get me hooked.
That year, I got to take the leftover pecan pie home!
This weeks Christmas Cookies is…
A Chocolate Chip Pecan Bar!
Bet ya didn’t see that coming, did ya? 
I just took a pecan bar recipe and threw in a handful of chocolate chips!
Then I individually wrapped some bars, to take to work on this Friday before Thanksgiving.
I’m thankful for my friends and co-workers that I have come to love in the last few years.
Girls, you are the best, and I thank you for being in my life!
Chocolate Pecan Bars
Southern Living, NOVEMBER 2004
Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup powdered sugar
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup honey
2/3 cup butter
3 tablespoons whipping cream
3 1/2 cups coarsely chopped pecans
Preparation
Sift together 2 cups flour and 2/3 cup powdered sugar. Cut in 3/4 cup softened butter using a pastry blender or fork just until mixture resembles coarse meal. Pat mixture on bottom and 1 1/2 inches up sides of a lightly greased 13- x 9-inch baking dish.
Bake at 350° for 20 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool.
Bring brown sugar, honey, 2/3 cup butter, and whipping cream to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir in pecans, and pour hot filling into prepared crust.
Bake at 350° for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden and bubbly. Cool completely before cutting into 2-inch squares.
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O.M.G. YUM! Combining chocolate and pecan bars has got to be amazing!
Love the idea of adding chocolate! I’m just learning to like pecan pie. These sound much better!
I love them all wrapped up to give, they sound delicious.
mickey
Great idea. I love the addition of chocolate chips on top of the crust.
Magen: I am on a diet and you are not helping me by baking all these wonderful things and to top off adding chocolate chips. Bad…bad girl. Virtual spank!
Wow these look great! I do not even like pecans and I’m totally salivating over these!
Oh, these sound amazing. I am definately going to have to try them. I make a pumpkin pecan pie every year that is the best of both worlds to my family, but I have a feeling the chocolate lovers just might go for this one!
Pecan Pie is my weakness!
so yummy! there’s a good chance these will be featured at my house this year!
There went my self-control! Pecan Pie is a weakness – and chocolate is an addiction! These look fabulous!
These look so amazing!! I love pecan pie and for sure chocolate…this recipe is for me!
I have always loved pecan pie – just always been nuts for nuts, I guess.
This sounds so easy and practical and YUMMY!
Gorgeous photos! And, I’m sure your co-workers were very thankful for your creativity in adding those chocolate chips… they make everything taste even yummier!
These look fantastic!!!
My work has put a new firewall on the computers and I can look at the blogs, I just can’t comment. They also blocked FB. It is a bummer.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Love how you wrap some of these bars up “to-go” they look delicious & they would be very hard to pass up!
It’s only be 2 or 3 years since I found love for pecan pie, too. I don’t know that I’d like it with chocolate, you know me & chocolate but I love the idea of making it into bars!
~ingrid
Holy yum!!! These look so dang good. Thanks for these
First of all, I love bars! Secondly, chocolate and pecans are a great combination of flavors, and lastly, I want one!
I love pecan pie! I couldn’t eat mincemeat pie as a child either however, as an adult, I can handle just a little tiny bit. I defintely wouldn’t overindulge on it though!
Dang, I’m so behind. But am glad I saw these. Love pecan pie, love me some chocolate. These look great!