No Bake Pecan Cream Pie
This brief & clean No Bake Pecan Cream Pie is so light, fluffy, and creamy, and additionally chock-full of toasted pecans. you can prep this No Bake Pecan Cream Pie in minutes, keeping off lengthy days inside the kitchen in the course of the holidays!
I can’t recall how I arrived at this Pecan Cream Pie idea precisely, but I constantly make notes in a wide style of locations whilst i've a recipe idea or an ingredient that I need to apply soon.
We make general holiday cakes too, certain, however we additionally make some matters which can be off-the-beaten-course, like this No Bake Peanut Butter Pie recipe. That’s a vacation pie…. to us. perhaps this Pecan Cream Pie might be a vacation pie to you!
Ingredients
- 6 oz. prepared shortbread or graham cracker crust
- 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup cold milk
- 2 - 3.4 oz. boxes instant vanilla pudding
- 1 tsp. butter extract optional
- 2 1/2 cups chopped toasted pecans divided
- 8 oz. container Cool Whip or whipped topping thawed
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix together sweetened condensed milk, milk, pudding mix, 2 cups pecans, and butter extract.
- Fold in whipped topping.
- Spread into prepared pie crust. The pie crust will be VERY full, but it will all fit if you just keep building it up in the center. Careful not to let the filling seep over the edges of the crust. ?
- Refrigerate til set, at least 2 hours.
- Garnish with remaining pecans and additional whipped topping, if desired. Cut and serve.