Mini Honey Pecan Pies for Two

Everything you love about pecan pie in a cute little mini portion, sized perfectly for two and sweetened with brown sugar and honey. These mini pies have all the ooey gooey rich, decadent sweetness you expect from pecan pie, loaded with candied crunchewy pecans throughout. To me, this is the perfect decadence I crave during the holidays. I don’t need a whole lot of pie, but I do totally crave pecan pie at Christmas time.

For Christmas this year, it was just me and my kids, so I didn’t want to make a great big pie, especially when we each wanted our own personal favorite, so I adapted this recipe from One Dish Kitchen. I love how she makes it all in one little pan and has an easy crust option, but I had pie crust on hand and really wanted the standard crust with my pecan pie. Also, I couldn’t help myself, when she said in her recipe that you can’t substitute for the corn syrup, well, I just HAD to. I already knew that honey works in pecan pie because my sister used honey in her pecan pie last year at Christmastime and it was divine!

These little pies are so simple to make, too! The filling is a simple stir-together mixture of honey, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla and pecans. I like a little sprinkle of sea salt on top too, to balance out the sweetness. I pre-baked my baby pie crusts, just to make sure they were perfectly done. I don’t like a soggy bottom crust. I cheated and used pre-made crusts, but of course you can use a homemade pie crust.

I used 5 inch mini pie pans for this recipe (I have glass ones that are just SO cute and handy for all sorts of things besides pie), but if you don’t have such a thing, head over to One Dish Kitchen because she has another serving dish option.

She called it pecan pie for one, but really it is perfect for two if you use mini pie pans. This pie is so incredibly sweet and rich that I could personally only handle eating about a fourth of a mini pie at a time, so perhaps it could be called pecan pie for four? I have to tell you I”m a small eater, though, and don’t typically eat dessert, so that is probably not true for people who eat normal size desserts. I did manage to finish off the second half of the first mini pie for breakfast this morning–that was quite a feat for me! But hey, it’s a Christmas tradition at my house to have pie for breakfast the day after Christmas, so I felt totally justified in eating that much.

One thing I want to caution you about. If you get all proud of your mini pies and want to show them off to your family while you’re talking to them on zoom (because that’s about the only way we get to see each other lately), do NOT pick up the pie and turn it sideways to show them how cute it is! Some of the gooey liquid might run out and then your floor becomes a sticky mess. … Not that I did that or anything. LOL. The pies were still fine and did not mind losing a bit of the sticky sweet, but I didn’t particularly like cleaning up the sticky mess on the floor.

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