Ben Starr

The Ultimate Food Geek

Tag: pecans

  • Ben’s Infamous Butter Pecan Ice Cream

    This ice cream is NOT good for you.  Let’s just get that out of the way at the beginning.  It contains so many calories and so much saturated fat that you should only indulge in it once a year. That said, this ice cream is legendary.  If you’re not familiar with the flavor “Butter Pecan”…

  • “Perfect” Pecan Pie (with NO CORN SYRUP option!)

    For those of you who don’t want the BETTER option of my Pumpkin Bourbon Pecan Pie recipe, here is a purist’s recipe for Pecan Pie, perfected: CRUST Feel free to make your family butter pastry recipe, but this is how I do it: 1 1/3 cups all purpose flour (I use unbleached flour) 1 tsp…

  • Pumpkin Bourbon Pecan Pie

    A video tutorial for this recipe is located at the bottom of the page… I love to bake, especially pies, even though I don’t eat dessert most of the time.  However, my two favorite pies in the world are pecan pie and, naturally, pumpkin pie.  My friends finally convinced me to meld the two pies…