Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, german chocolate pecan pie bars. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

German Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. German Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars is something which I have loved my whole life.

German chocolate cake is one of my childhood loves. My mother used to make it from a cake mix with store-bought frosting. If you've never made pecan pie bars, imagine those gooey filling and toasty pecans of pie fame filling a simple crust and baked in a big pan instead of a pie plate.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook german chocolate pecan pie bars using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make German Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars:

1. Take 3 cups Pecan halves & pieces
2. Take 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3. Get 3/4 cup powdered sugar
4. Make ready 3/4 cup cold butter, cubed
5. Take 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
6. Take 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate morsels
7. Prepare 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
8. Make ready 3/4 cup corn syrup
9. Make ready 1/4 cup butter, melted
10. Make ready 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
11. Prepare 1 cup sweeten flaked coconut

Surprisingly, pecan pie is a relative latecomer to the Southern table. Inspired by German Chocolate Cake, chocolate chips and shredded coconut mixed into the filling put this pecan pie head and shoulders above the rest. I added a small bit of a German Chocolate bar into the melted butter because I wasn't sure how chocolately the choc. chips alone would make it. Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars - A brown sugar shortbread crust topped with a gooey maple filling loaded with pecans, shredded coconut, and chocolate chips.

Instructions to make German Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Bake pecans in a single layer in shallow pan 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly toasted and fragrant, stirring halfway through.
2. Line bottom and sides of 13 X 9-inch pan with heavy duty aluminum foil, allowing 2 to 3 inches to extend over sides. Lightly grease foil.
3. Pulse flour and next 3 ingredients in a food processor 5 to 6 times or until mixture resembles coarse meal. Press mixture on bottom and 3/4 inch up sides of prepared pan.
4. Bake crust at 350 for 15 minutes. Remove from oven, and sprinkle chocolate morsels over crust. Cool completely on a wire rack (about 30 minutes)
5. Whisk together brown sugar and next 3 ingredients until smooth. Stir in coconut and toasted pecans, and spoon into prepared crust.
6. Bake at 350°F for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden and set. Cool completely on wire rack (about 1 hour.) chill 1 hour. Lift bake bars from pan, using foil sides as handles. Transfer to cutting board; cut into bars.

Kind of like the topping to German Chocolate Cake. These ingredients were made to be together! Pulse the flour, powdered sugar, butter Cook completely, about an hour. Lift the bars from the pan using the foil as handles. Transfer to a cutting board and cut into bars.

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