Fall Favorites Friday {Yummy and Fun Ideas for Using Pecans}

Sometimes you just feel like a nut and sometimes you don’t. Today, I feel like a nut! (I know, I’m a dork!)

But, honestly, I’ve been thinking a lot about nuts lately — particularly, pecans and what I can make with the bumper crop we have this year.

Here are several yummy and fun ideas for using pecans this fall:

(Warning: this post contains lots of fat and calories)

Pecan Pie — this is a given, right? This is by far my favorite thing to make with pecans. I have a killer recipe that I will share in another post soon — promise!!

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Pralines — a southern favorite. My dad is coming to town next week and I’m thinking of making some of these for him — he loves them!

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Pecan bars — I saw this recipe awhile back and have been dying to try it. It looks fabulous!

Source: The Girl Who Ate Everything

Pecan muffins — I bought a pecan muffin baking mix from a craft show once and it was fantastic. I was thrilled when I found this from-scratch recipe online.

Source: All Recipes.com

Glazed pecans — there are a lot of ways to glaze pecans; maple glazed, Texas glazed, sugar and spiced, the list goes on. All I can say is YUM! They would taste great topping just about anything — even a salad.

(Texas glazed pecans – Source)

Pecan Pie Brownies — I ran across this recipe when browsing for ideas…I think they’re calling my name!!

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Carmel Pecan Sundaes — Carmel and pecans go together like peanut butter and jelly. Look at this fabulous-ness! They even used butter pecan ice cream! For more details on this one, click here.

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Now I’m hungry — for dessert!

One last idea, non-food related…

Make a Wreath — I got really excited when I thought of this idea (and then found this nut wreath on MarthaStewart.com). However, I realized I have nowhere to put a pecan wreath right now (plus, my husband would probably be disappointed that I used unshelled nuts for non-eating purposes). Maybe next year! I think it would be so cute!

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By the way, did you know that you can freeze shelled pecans so they don’t go rancid? (I didn’t know that until recently.) And, if you’re like me and have a lot of unshelled nuts, you can find people who can shell them for you. I’m going to look into this more seriously if we get as many nuts as I think we will.

If anyone has any other great pecan ideas I’d love to hear them! Happy Friday y’all!

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