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Coleen’s Recipes: PECAN PIE BITES by Gordon Ramsay

Picky-picky Hubby tells me these Pecan Pie Bites are totally addicting. They have a buttery shortbread crust …… a slightly gooey center and glazed sweet pecans on top. What more can you ask for? Oh yes, they also freeze exceptionally well!!!

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CRUST
2 cups all purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup butter (room temperature)

Mix the above crust ingredients well and press into a 9″ x 13″ baking dish that has been lined with parchment or no-stick foil (see note below). This mixture will seem crumbly before you bake it, but don’t worry about that. Just pat it evenly into the pan and bake in preheated 350° oven for 20 minutes. If you are using a glass baking pan, bake at 325°.

While the crust is baking, mix up the topping:

TOPPING
3 eggs well beaten
1 cup light corn syrup (I use Karo brand)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 + 2/3 cup chopped pecans

Mix well and pour over partially baked crust, making sure the nuts are evenly spread out. Return to the oven and bake for 25 more minutes.

Cool COMPLETELY in pan.

NOTE: The Pecan Pie Bite crust does not stick to the pan, but around the edges of the topping, it does like to stick. To combat that, I line my 9″ x 13″ baking pan with parchment paper or the new Reynolds Easy Release foil, leaving the ends a little long so I can use them as “handles” to lift out the COMPLETELY COOLED recipe.

Make sure they have cooled this
to room temperature before

you cut them into bites.

NOTE: Since we are empty-nesters, this recipe is too big for us, so I cut the baked recipe into thirds and wrap each one in plastic wrap then again in a zip top freezer bag and freeze them.They freeze VERY well.

DO NOT CUT THEM INTO “BITES” UNTIL YOU THAW THEM OUT.

ENJOY !!!

Mini Shortbread Christmas Cookie Bites — The Skinny Fork by Gordon Ramsay

These tiny Mini Shortbread Christmas Cookie Bites are really one of the best things I’ve put in my mouth this week. They’re light, crisp, buttery and full of festive holiday sprinkles. Of course, I didn’t go with traditional ‘red and green’ sprinkles. I found some awesome colorful ‘gingerbread’ holiday sprinkles that really made these tiny bites pop!

The very same ones that I used in my Healthified ‘Lofthouse’ Soft Sugar Cookies! The sprinkles here DO make a difference, so be sure to use your favorites. Jimmies and ‘confetti’ style sprinkles work best because they don’t bleed out color into the batter as easily as some others.

Instant Pot Cheesecake Bites — The Skinny Fork by Gordon Ramsay

Most recently I found a fun way to make tamales in the instant pot, and being as I’ve also made a cheesecake in the instant pot too, I thought… is it possible to make mini cheesecakes? As it turns out, it is! These Instant Pot Cheesecake Bites are fun and easy to make. Plus, they’re lightened up just enough to be guilt free while still tasting great.

As it turns out, the instant pot is a great way to make cheesecakes, and these mini ones are made directly in my handy-dandy egg bite mold! I lightened them up by using sweetener instead of most of the sugar, and also used a reduced fat cream cheese.

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