Decadent Southern Comfort Pecan Pie Recipe - Celebration Generation (2024)

My Southern Comfort Pecan Pie is easy to make, absolutely delicious, and a fun take on tradition. Serve it with Southern Comfort infused whipped cream!

Thanksgiving was last week, so I’m currently in the process of sharing some of the recipes I created for it.

Usually, we’re all about the pumpkin pie here, so my Gluten-Free Maple Pumpkin Pie is the go-to for both* of our Thanksgiving dinners!

This year, my husband requested pecan pie for Thanksgiving. I haven’t made one in a very long time, so I agreed.

Given that the rarity of me making them makes it an *occasion*, I wanted to do something different with it.

So, after some discussion, we came up with...

Southern Comfort Pecan Pie

I love to use Southern Comfort in cooking and baking, such as my Spicy Southern Comfort Glazed Chicken, Southern Comfort Peach Popsicles, Southern Comfort Glazed Ham, or my Southern Comfort Peach Pie.

The king of all of my SoCo recipes, though, is my Peachy Southern Comfort Cheesecake.

In general, I love the combo of peaches and Southern Comfort (you may have noticed a pattern there!), but the addition of the pecan crust on that cheesecake?

*chef kiss*

SO when the time came to figure out a way to make this pie a bit different, a bit more of “our own”, Southern Comfort was my go-to idea to play with!

As a note: I don’t have any relationship with the brand, and I don’t even really drink it. It just has such a lovely flavour when it comes to baking!

Designing this Recipe

A bit of an issue with boozing up a pecan pie: The only liquids in the traditional recipe are corn syrup and eggs.

Where many baking recipes are easy to change liquid out in - say, swapping some of the water for a liqueur of choice - neither eggs nor corn syrup can be switched out in the same way.

So, what I’d have to do is introduce liquid to the recipe, then compensate for it.

I wanted to add enough Southern Comfort for the flavour to come through, otherwise, there’s no point.

As I didn’t want it to be overpowering, I wouldn’t need to add a ton - so that made compensating fairly easy.

I upped the egg content, and added a very small amount of corn starch, as insurance.

I also decided to add a very small amount of Southern Comfort to the pecans. This made for a nice bit of accent and tied the flavours of the filling and the pecan top together.

A Note on the Pecans

As this was designed around my husband's tastes, there is a THICK layer of pecans on top.

If you're more for the filling than the pecans - like I am - you can decrease the amount of pecans to as little as 1 ½ cups.

The Final Result

This pie is fantastic! The filling has only a slightly different texture from traditional pecan pie, on account of the different proportions.

The taste is fabulous - the Southern Comfort comes through, without being overpowering. It's such a great compliment to the pecans!

"There's something about pecan pies where they can get too intense after half a piece. I LIKE them, but it can be... cloying. This one? I could eat the whole thing.

The crust on this one is REALLY good. Pie crust can be like cardboard vector to deliver pie filling, but this one was really great. It had great flavour, and that flaky texture, almost like a croissant? Loved it!" - My husband

(Note: While you can use any crust you like for this, we used my Great Uncle Tom's Perfect Pie Crust.)

The long cooking time allows most of the actual alcohol to cook off, and there's no alcohol "bite" to this, at all, just a great, smooth flavour.

We topped it with a quick Southern Comfort whipped cream, which was a perfect compliment to it (And ended up as something we'd eat straight out of the mixer, as-is!).

We lightly sweetened it to balance out the SoCo, but you can leave the sugar out if you like (recipe below).

As a note: As we were eating this, we realized that this pie recipe would also work well if you used whiskey/bourbon instead of the Southern Comfort.

I'd definitely recommend sticking to non-peated whiskeys, like Jack Daniels.

I would imagine that the fun, flavoured versions of Crown Royal would be amazing with this - Maple, Apple, Peach, Vanilla ... yeah!

How to Make Southern Comfort Pecan Pie

Full recipe follows, but here's a pictorial overview!

Roughly chop the pecans.

In a dry pan, toast pecans over medium heat until fragrant. Add 2 tablespoon Southern Comfort, continue cooking until absorbed.

Remove from heat, allow to cool to room temp.

Preheat oven to 350 F

Line your pie pan with your prepared pie crust of choice. Flip the outer edge under, and crimp the edge as you see fit.

Whisk together the corn syrup, eggs, sugars, butter, Southern Comfort, cornstarch, and salt until smooth and well incorporated.

Add the cooled pecans, mix until well combined.

Pour filling into the prepared pie crust.

Bake pie for 30 minutes.

At the 30 minute mark, place a piece of aluminum foil loosely over the pie - this will help prevent it from burning.

Bake for another 30-35 minutes or so, until the pie is mostly set, with the center just a little bit jiggly.

Remove from oven and allow to cool to room temperature before serving. If not serving immediately, keep refrigerated after cooling.

Note: The pie will be puffy when it comes out of the oven, on account of the eggs. It will settle and solidify as it cools.

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Decadent Southern Comfort Pecan Pie

My Southern Comfort Pecan Pie is easy to make, absolutely delicious, and a fun take on tradition. Serve it with Southern Comfort infused whipped cream!

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time55 minutes mins

Cooling time2 hours hrs

Total Time3 hours hrs 5 minutes mins

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 8 People

Calories: 600kcal

Author: Marie Porter

Equipment

• 9 inch pie pan

Ingredients

• 2 cups Pecans
• 2 tablespoon Southern Comfort
• 1 pie crust for a 9" pie.
• 1 cup Corn syrup
• 4 large eggs
• ½ cup Brown sugar packed
• ½ cup Granulated sugar
• ¼ cup Butter melted
• ¼ cup Southern Comfort
• 1 tablespoon Cornstarch
• ½ teaspoon salt

Instructions

• Roughly chop the pecans.

• In a dry pan, toast pecans over medium heat until fragrant. Add 2 tablespoon Southern Comfort, continue cooking until absorbed.

• Remove from heat, allow to cool to room temp.

• Preheat oven to 350 F

• Line your pie pan with your prepared pie crust of choice. Flip the outer edge under, and crimp the edge as you see fit.

• Whisk together the corn syrup, eggs, sugars, butter, Southern Comfort, cornstarch, and salt until smooth and well incorporated. Add the cooled pecans, mix until well combined.

• Pour filling into the prepared pie crust.

• Bake pie for 30 minutes.

• At the 30 minute mark, place a piece of aluminum foil loosely over the pie - this will help prevent it from burning.

• Bake for another 30-35 minutes or so, until the pie is mostly set on the outside, with the center just a little bit jiggly.

• Remove from oven and allow to cool to room temperature before serving. If not serving immediately, keep refrigerated after cooling.

Notes

Pie will be puffy when it comes out of the oven, on account of the eggs. It will settle and solidify as it cools.

Nutrition

Calories: 600kcal | Carbohydrates: 75g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 31g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 15g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 97mg | Sodium: 345mg | Potassium: 173mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 60g | Vitamin A: 310IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 53mg | Iron: 2mg