Salted Chocolate Pecan Bars

Salted Chocolate Pecan Bars

from andianne.com
Dessert
170 min
9 servings
383 kcal / serving

These salted chocolate pecan bars are gooey, buttery, and packed with dark chocolate.

Ingredients

  • 1 cupall-purpose flour (or ¾ cup almond flour, or 1 cup gluten-free 1:1 blend)
  • ¼ cupgranulated sugar
  • ¼ cupstick cold unsalted butter, cubed
  • ¾ cupbrown sugar
  • 2 largeeggs
  • ¼ cupmaple syrup
  • 1 tspvanilla bean paste (or extract)
  • ½ tspsalt
  • 2 tbspmelted butter
  • ½ cupchopped pecans
  • ½ cupdark chocolate chips
  • ½ cupwhole pecans
  • flaky sea salt

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 8×8 pan with parchment.

  2. 2

    Mix crust ingredients. Press into pan. Bake 12–14 minutes. Cool slightly.

  3. 3

    Whisk brown sugar, eggs, syrup, vanilla, salt. Add melted butter. Fold in chopped pecans and chocolate.

  4. 4

    Pour over crust. Top with whole pecans. Bake 25–30 minutes.

  5. 5

    Cool completely, chill 2+ hours. Slice and top with flaky sea salt.