Awesome Pecan Pie Recipe

Time to suffer with the family!! Thanksgiving is almost here but this pecan pie recipe will help to get you through the holidays. Even if your curmudgeonly relatives conveniently forget to make anything vegan for Thanksgiving you can still eat some awesome pecan pie! This is an eeeasy pie recipe. Since it's made with agave nectar it's also low on the glycemic index so even your cranky diabetic Great Uncle Fester can have a slice.

Cooking Soundtrack:  Kreator - Command of the Blade (This song is appropriate for any recipe that involves a food processor.) 

You will need:
A food processor
1 recipe pie crust
2 1/2 cups raw pecan halves
2/3 C agave nectar
2 T molasses
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1 T cornstarch
2 T raw cashews, soaked for at least 2 hours or scant 2 T raw cashew butter

Bake your pie crust according to the recipe. A recipe for gluten-free pie crust can be found here. If you want to use regular pie crust, I suggest consulting the Veganomicon for a worthy recipe.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

While your pie crust is cooling, drain your cashews and grind them up in the food processor until they're crumbly or pasty. 
Next, put 2 cups of your pecans in the food processor and pour the agave nectar and molasses over them. Sprinkle the cinnamon, nutmeg, and cornstarch over the mixture as evenly as possible to avoid clumps. If you're using cashew butter instead of whole cashews, toss it in the food processor now.  Pulse a few times until the nuts are chopped and coated.  Now, take a spatula and gently stir the ingredients inside the food processor to get the agave-molasses mixture evenly distributed.  Put the last 1/2 cup of your nuts in the food processor and pulse twice to coat them with the mixture. You want some large pecan pieces in the pie. It looks nice that way.

Scrape the filling into the pie shell and smooth it down with your spatula. Make sure you cover the edges of the pie with foil or a pie crust shield so it doesn't burn and pop it in the oven (the middle rack is the best place for your pie). Bake it at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Seems like torture but you need to let the pie cool for at least 10 minutes before you cut it so it doesn't fall apart. Now eat it!

**Did you know that Mille from Kreator is vegan? True story!**