pecan butter: made up recipes are easy and delicious!

Geoff and I recently had dinner at a local restaurant which served waffles with pecan butter. I was amazed to discover it wasn't pecans ground up into a paste, like peanut butter - it was pecans AND butter. The perfect combination of boredom and inspiration struck and I tried my hand at a homemade version of this and...well, I really need to be careful to moderate my intake. There's serious potential for gluttony here.


I toasted something like 3/4 cup of raw, whole pecans for maybe 15 minutes. They looked a little burnt so I whipped 'em out of the oven post haste. Then I processed them into a meal with the food processor, sprinkled some brown sugar in there (maybe half a cup or less?) and dumped a whole tub of whipped butter (a cup? I guess?) on top of that. I reserved some ground pecans to adjust the texture to my liking. I left it a little low on the sweet side. I would almost prefer more salt, but apparently my ability to taste salt has tanked lately and then my sweet-salty treats turn out inedible to others.

The whipped butter is perfect because it's spreadable all the time! So I just pull the jar out of the fridge and spread it on some cookies (Trader Joe's Bistro Biscuits, in case you were wondering, are deeeeelicious with this). Um, I admit I have eaten it by the spoonful.


A moment of genius struck when Pablo and I discovered you could make tiny cookie sandwiches out of these. We are achieving food nirvana here, dudes.




So this is a super easy thing that you can do with two delicious ingredients to enhance their delicious-abilities. Apparently it keeps forever because I made this two weeks ago and it tastes the same. Yum!