Rum Butter Pecan Chewy Bars

  • Rum Butter Chewy Bars

    Rum- you either love it or you hate it.  If you hate it, click here or here, or go have a nap.  If you love it, stick with me, drinking buddy.  We’re going to have a good time.

    (Full disclosure: rum and I are still unsure of our relationship.  I have a scarring memory from 1994 involving it in excess, and it’s taken me baby steps [thankfully not 12 of them] to befriend it again.  Mojitos have definitely helped.)

    Remember my Chewy Pecan Bars?  (If you’re too hungover to picture them, I’ll help you out: chewy, pecans, amazing.)  I love a dessert with a bit of chew in it (except for an under baked cake– ew), so I keep coming back to this bar.  (There are some bars you want to keep coming back to, like Maude’s Liquor Bar on Randolph.  And the Ugly But Good Bars [don’t judge a bar by its name].  And now for rum chewy pecan bars.)

    Bottoms up!

    Adapted from my Chewy Pecan Bar recipe…

    2 eggs, lightly beaten

    1 cup white sugar

    1 cup brown sugar

    1/2 teaspoon vanilla

    1/4 cup dark rum

    1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

    Pinch of salt

    1 cup pecans (toasted & chopped)

    3/4 cup butter, melted

    1. Preheat oven to 350° and grease a foil-lined 8 x 8″ baking pan.
    2. In a large bowl, mix all ingredients together.*
    3. Spread evenly into baking pan, and bake for 35 minutes (until cake tester pulls out mostly clean of crumbs in the center).  Allow to cool on a wire rack before slicing into bars.

     Tips:

    • Add raisins if it makes your life feel more complete, for sure.  I wish I had thrown in 3/4 of a cup.  Next time, next time.
    • *Don’t feel like beating the eggs in a separate bowl before stirring them into the mix?  Do what I do: lightly beat them in the large bowl first, then add the other ingredients.   (Oh- as for the butter, I usually melt into the measuring cup I’ve used to scoop out the flour, sugar and pecans… then pour into the batter to stir.)
    • Can you make the time to toast the nuts?  Pretty please?  Put them on a pan in your oven as it preheats, and when you start to smell them a little bit and they look lightly toasted, they are done.  (Not like this.)
    • These will freeze totally well.
    • Enjoy!

     

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    February 27th, 2016 | More Sweets Please | No Comments | Tags: , ,

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