These easy Pecan Chewies make a delicious dessert or snack! Made with pecans, brown sugar, and butter, this recipe makes a perfect treat anytime!Â
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Pecan Chewies make the perfect sweet treat or dessert. My Mama made these as we were growing up. They were always a family favorite. If you have a pecan lover in your family, they will absolutely adore these! And thankfully, they really couldn’t be much easier to make.
Pecan Chewies make a great make-ahead recipe since they can be baked, cooled, and cut into bars and then easily transported to tailgates, picnics, reunions, and more!
How to Make Pecan Chewies Recipe
Ingredients
Be sure to see the recipe card below for the full listing of ingredients, instructions, notes, and estimated nutritional information.
- Butter – You’ll need melted butter for this recipe. I use salted butter, but you can use unsalted butter if you prefer.
- Sugars – This recipe uses a mixture of both granulated and brown sugar.
- Vanilla extract – I love to use my homemade vanilla extract in my baking recipes, especially. You can also use your favorite good quality store-bought.
- Eggs – Allow your eggs to reach room temperature for better blending into the batter.
- Flour – This recipe uses self-rising flour.
- Pecans – The pecans add crunch and flavor to these bars. However, you can easily substitute with another nut such as walnuts if preferred or replace with chocolate chips if you need to avoid the use of all nuts.
Step-by-Step Instructions
Preheat the oven to 300º F. Butter a 9 x 13 baking dish. I also like to line my baking dish with parchment paper at the edges of the baking dish. This lets me easily lift the Pecan Chewies from the baking dish to finish cooling and to cut into bars. If you use the parchment, you’ll also want to butter the parchment paper.
Add your melted butter, granulated and brown sugars, and vanilla extract to a large mixing bowl.
Beat together with an electric mixer until well combined. Then, mix in your eggs.
Mix in your self-rising flour.
Mix until smooth.
Stir in your chopped pecans.
Spread the batter into your prepared baking dish.
Use a spatula and make sure that the batter is spread to the edges.
Place into the oven and bake until the Pecan Chewies are light brown and do not move when the baking pan is moved on the oven rack, about 45 minutes.
Allow to cool in the pan. Alternately, if you used the parchment paper lining in your baking dish, allow them to cool for about 5 minutes in the pan and then carefully lift them out of the baking dish using the extended edges of the parchment paper. Place them onto a wire rack and let them cool completely.
Use a sharp knife and cut the Pecan Chewies into 16 – 24 bars, depending on your preference.
That first one is totally irresistible and so delicious!
Recipe Variations
Nut-free Chewy Bars – Replace the pecans called for in the recipe with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, or your favorite mix-ins.
Chocolate Chip Pecan Chewies – Add 1/2 cup chocolate chips to the batter when you add the pecans.
Walnut Chewies – Replace the pecans in the recipe with walnuts.
More Delicious Dessert Bars
Dessert bars, like these chewies, are always easy favorites to make for snacks, desserts, and more. I have many Bar recipes of all types that I know you’ll love. Here are a few more you may want to try soon!
Here’s my Pecan Chewies Recipe. I hope you love them as much as we do!
Pecan Chewies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 2 cups self-rising flour
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300° F. Spray a 9×13 baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Optionally, line the 9×13 baking dish with parchment long enough that the edges extend for easily lifting the Pecan Chewies from the baking dish for cooling and cutting.
- Melt butter in a medium saucepan set over medium heat. Once melted, pour the butter into a large mixing bowl and beat together with granulated, brown sugar, and vanilla extract until well combined. Mix in eggs until well combined, followed by the flour. Stir in the chopped pecans and pour into prepared 9 x 13 baking dish.
- Bake until the bars are light brown, about 45 minutes. Allow to cool completely before cutting and serving.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Enjoy!
Robyn xo
Wonderful recipe! Instructions were easy to follow and the results were delicious 💖
Thanks so much, Jean!
Hi, I love chewies! Can you add chocolate chip and keep the pecans in this recipe?
Hello, do you butter the pan place the parchment paper in the pan, than butter the paper as well?
Nila, I butter the pan, place the parchment in the pan, and then butter the parchment. Hope this helps.
Easy and delicious! I make them often.
Thank you, Carolyn. So glad you liked the cookies.
I used to make these for my daddy when I was younger and living at home. He thought they were so good. Seeing the recipe again on here makes me think about daddy all over again. I will start making these cookies again because I do remember how good they were. I just have to buy my pecans tomorrow. Can’t wait !!!!
You always have the most delicious recipes on here…I look forward to seeing them each time.
Thanks, Faye
Hi Faye,
I love that this recipe brought back such good memories for you. Thanks so much for your kind words. xo
Thank You for giving step by step instructions along with the pictures! I’m more of a visual type of person so comparing what yours looked like and what was in front of me was tremendously helpful! Oh and not having a bunch of stuff to wash after was a huge plus!! My husband LOVES this recipe! I am happy to say this is now my new favorite bake ahead go to dessert!!!
Thanks, Toni! I’m so glad the step-by-step instructions and photos helped and that you and your husband loved these bars. The easy cleanup doesn’t hurt either, does it?
I read the post, drooled over the photo, and got busy baking. These are so good; thanks for the great recipe!
Jennifer in Montreal
p.s. The self-rising flour recipe worked like a charm!
Thanks, Jennifer. I’m so happy you liked these pecan chewies. Isn’t it easy to make the self-rising flour? xo
What kind of brown sugar was used?
I used light brown sugar, Abby.
Oh,,,,also she put Hersey drops in them also,,,yummy with the chocolate,,but every thing with chocolate is great
These are great,, my Mom use to make some thing almost like these,,only she put meringue on the top to give them a little airy topping.
So good thanks
Thanks, Douglas. I haven’t seen these with meringue but it sounds good.
Hello can I add chocolate chips to this recipe.
I have replaced the pecans with chocolate chips before for someone who had a allergy to the nuts, Laverna.
Why the self-rising flour? Â
Hi LuAnn,
The self-rising flour worked best in this recipe. Hope you enjoy!
Is there anything else that can be used in the place of pecans? Like chocolate chips?
Hi Denise,
You can use any other nut if you don’t like pecans. If you don’t like nuts, you can omit them and replace with chocolate chips. Hope you enjoy!
I love pecan recipes like this but I often find them to be overly sweet, overpowering the other ingredients. There is a large amount of sugar in this recipe. Of course this is a matter of preference but I am wondering if anyone has tried reducing the sugar in this recipe and if so how they found the results?