Pecan desserts can be enjoyed all year round. The nutty flavor of pecans pairs well with a variety of sweet flavors, making them a versatile ingredient in a range of dessert recipes.
Try out one of over 75 recipes that include pecans! We’ve got everything from pecans paired with chocolate, pecan pie inspired desserts, pecan recipes that will be great for your cookie exchange, pumpkin and pecan recipes, vegan pecan desserts, and fruit paired with pecan desserts!
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These are just a few of my personal favorite pecan desserts!
Pecan Turtles
These Pecan Turtles will be one of your favorite easy chocolate caramel desserts! Learn how to make pecan turtles with only 5 ingredients.
Rolo Pretzel Turtles
Rolo pretzel turtles are a delicious and easy dessert that combines pretzels, Rolo candies, and pecans. These bite-sized sweets are perfect for the holiday season, or anytime you want a sweet treat!
Southern Pecan Pralines
These Southern Pecan Pralines are so delicious and will be some of the best you've ever had! They're such a tasty combination of candy and cookie.
Pecan Tassies
Pecan Tassies are a bite-sized treat that are perfect for the holidays, or whenever you’re looking for a mini pecan pie! These pecan tarts are filled with a brown sugar filling that you’ll love.
Easy Candied Pecans Recipe
This Easy Candied Pecans Recipe is made on the stovetop with just 4 ingredients! It just takes a few steps to learn how to candy pecans with cinnamon and no eggs.
Pair with Chocolate
Chocolate pecan desserts are great for year-round!
Pecan Haystacks
Pecan Haystacks are a no-bake dessert that you can make in little time with only four ingredients!
Easy Turtle Cookies | Caramel Pecan Cookies
It's hard to beat Turtle Cookies with their pecans, caramel, and chocolate on top of a sugar cookie!
Chocolate Pecan Tart Recipe
This Chocolate Pecan tart can be used to make mini tarts that have a delicious chocolate, pecan, and gooey filling.
Bourbon Pecan Pie Brownies
Bourbon, pecan pie, and brownies!? Say no more.
Homemade Chocolate Pecan Shortbread Bars
Pecan Shortbread Bars have layers of cookie, caramel, and chocolate that will be a hit!
Double Chocolate Pecan Blondies
These Pecan Blondies have both semisweet and white chocolate and have the perfect chewy texture!
Dark Chocolate Brownies Recipe
These Dark Chocolate Brownies are topped with Dulce de Leche and pecans for a perfect rich bite.
Tender and Flakey Chocolate Rugelach
These Chocolate Rugelach are filled with a chocolate and pecan layer that you'll love!
Turtle Tassies
The perfect combination of pecan tassies and turtle candies!
Pecan Clusters
These chocolate pecans are perfect gifts around the holidays!
Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars
These Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars are incredibly easy to prepare and are perfect for a crowd!
Double Chocolate Pecan Bars (gluten-free, Vegan/Paleo option)
Double Chocolate Pecan Bars are perfect for your chocolate lovers!
Triple Chocolate Pecan Fudge Brownies
Made with three types of chocolate, you'll never have a more fudgy brownie!
Easy Fudge Recipe
This Easy Fudge Recipe is absolutely delicious and quick to make! Topped with pecans for the perfect crunch. Learn how to make fudge without condensed milk in under an hour!
German Chocolate Pecan Pie
This German Chocolate Pecan Pie combines two desserts that has a chocolate, coconut, and pecan filling with a chocolate crust.
Chocolate Nut Tart {Tarta De Tres Nueces}
This Honey Nut Tart is a traditional dessert from Nicaragua with chocolate brushed onto the pastry and a honey nut filling.
Chocolate Chip Pecan Banana Bread
Banana bread is a staple and it's even better with chocolate chips and pecans!
Pecan Pie Inspired
Who said there's only one right way to eat Pecan Pie?
How to Make Maple Pecan Pie (NO Corn Syrup!)
This Maple Pecan Pie has a touch of bourbon and is made without any corn syrup to make a classic pie everyone will love!
German Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars
This crossover of Pecan Pie and German Chocolate Cake couldn't be more delicious!
Lazy Slow Cooker Pecan Pie
This is an easy crockpot version of the classic pecan pie!
Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie
Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie is the perfect holiday pie upgrade. With decadent chocolate and an Oreo crust, each slice is filled with double the chocolate flavor, crunchy pecans and a touch of whiskey.
Brown Butter Pecan Pie Cookie Bars Recipe
These Pecan Pie Cookie Bars are made with a shortbread crust and bourbon and medjool date filling!
Pecan Pie Bars
These Pecan Pie Bars have shortbread crust and simple filling that'll surely become a favorite!
Gluten-Free Pecan Pie Cookies
These Gluten Free Pecan Pie Cookies are rich and delicious!
Pecan Pie Without Corn Syrup
Look no further for a pecan pie without corn syrup and a buttery, flaky pastry!
Pecan Pie Balls Recipe
These Pecan Pie Balls are a no-bake treat that have the perfect nutty crunch!
Cranberry Pecan Pie Bars
These cranberry pecan pie bars tie in everything you love about pecan pie with the tartness of cranberries making them perfect for the holidays!
Perfect Pecan Pie Muffins
Pecan Pie Muffins are the perfect combination for dessert. A perfect combination of a pie with all the convenience of a muffin! Great for breakfast, brunch, and dessert!
Easy Pecan Pie No Bake Cheesecake
Everything you love about creamy no bake cheesecake and pecan pie filling are combined into one awesome dessert with this Easy Pecan Pie No Bake Cheesecake recipe!
Pecan Pie Filling in a Jar- Pecan Sauce Recipe
This fully cooked pecan pie "filling" is a delicious sauce perfect for ice cream sundaes, cheesecakes and more!
Pecan Pie Bread Pudding
This combination of pecan pie and bread pudding is easy to make and will be a new favorite!
Pecan Pie Cake
This gorgeous Pecan Pie Cake has brown sugar cake layers and traditional pecan pie filling your whole family will love!
Pecan Pudding Pie
Similar to pecan pie, this pecan pudding pie has a velvety soft filling!
Perfect for the Cookie Exchange!
Pecan cookies are always a hit at the holidays - try one of these recipes for your next cookie swap!
Caramel Pecan Bites
These Caramel Pecan Bites will be a hit at your cookie exchange with the homemade nougat, caramel, and toasted pecans!
Zucchini Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies
These Zucchini Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies are perfectly chewy and delicious with the combination of chopped pecans and chocolate chips.
Spiced Rum Balls
Spiced Rum Balls made with spiced cookies, finely-chopped pecans, cocoa powder and your favorite spiced rum are a go-to treat to serve at holiday parties or add to cookie boxes.
Butterbeer Brown Butter Blondies with Toasted Pecans Recipe
These Butterbeer Brown Butter Blondies with Toasted Pecans feature the rich buttery brown sugar sweetness of butterbeer (think butterscotch vanilla!). And like any good blondie, they’re gooey-centered and completely indulgent. What could be a more perfect fall snack for curling up on the couch and reading or watching Harry Potter?
Easy Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies with Nuts Recipe
Our Easy Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies with Nuts Recipe are an old fashioned and a classic cookie! The crumbly, sweet cookies taste delicious with raspberry or cherry jam, or even chocolate icing!
The Best Pecan Meltaways
These Pecan Meltaways are a buttery, nutty shortbread cookie everyone will love.
Gooey Pecan Dream Bars
Gooey Pecan Dream Bars use box cake mix, toffee bits, and sweetened condensed milk to make an easy and delicious dessert!
Almond Flour Pecan Sandies
These Pecan Sandies are gluten-free and full of buttery pecan goodness!
Toffee Pecan Bars
These bars will be the hit of the exchange with the combination of pecans, chocolate chips, and toffee bits!
Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies
The perfect combination of chocolate chip cookies with pecan bits!
Brown Butter Pecan Blondies
These Brown Butter Pecan blondies are a sweet and simple dessert filled with chocolate chips and pecans.
Pecan Shortbread Cranberry Cookie Recipe
These Pecan Shortbread Cranberry Cookies pair cranberries and pecans for a perfect holiday treat.
Perfect Southern Pecan Praline Cookies
These Pecan Praline Cookies are topped with a praline icing drizzle that is incredible!
Cakes with Pecans
More in the mood for cake? Got you covered!
Butter Pecan Rum Cake
This Butter Pecan Rum Cake has a moist yellow cake soaked in a buttered rum sauce and is topped with pecans!
Southern Butter Pecan Pound Cake with Praline Glaze
This cake is semi-homemade so it's both easy and delicious!
Chocolate Earthquake Cake
This Chocolate Earthquake Cake is full of chocolate flavors and will be a hit with its cream cheese filling with coconut and pecans.
Cherry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake with Streusel Crunch Topping
Try out this Cherry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake with Streusel Crunch Topping made with a pecan streusel.
Tornado Cake Recipe (Do Nothing)
This Tornado Cake is made with crushed pineapple and topped with coconut and pecans!
Pecan Carrot Cake
This Pecan Carrot Cake is topped with a delicious layer of sweet cream cheese frosting!
Italian Cream Cake
This Italian Cream Cake is made with coconut, pecans, and a delicious cream cheese frosting.
Brown Butter Pecan Cake from Scratch
This old fashioned butter pecan cake with cream cheese frosting will surely be one of you new go-tos!
The Best Butter Pecan Cheesecake Recipe
This Butter Pecan Cheesecake has a pecan shortbread cookie crust that you'll love!
Pecan Upside Down Cake
This exceptional Pecan Upside Down Cake is a perfect dessert for Fall or Thanksgiving; the excellent harmony of moist yogurt cake as the base and caramelised pecan topping!
Vegan Options!
We've got a few vegan-friendly pecan desserts, too!
Vegan Pecan Upside Down Cake
This Pecan Upside Down Cake is a vegan treat with a soft and moist caramelized nutty topping.
Vegan Pecan Pie Bars
These Vegan Pecan Pie Bars have a sweet caramel and pecan mixture making them irresistible!
Vegan Snowball Cookies (Wedding Cookies)
These snowball cookies are a perfect bite of buttery pecans.
Superfood Chocolate Bark With Pecans
Made with 5 ingredients, this chocolate bark is an easy to make sweet treat!
Pecan Pie Protein Vegan Fudge Recipe
This no-bake dessert is paired with vanilla fudge and chocolate chips and pecans.
Vegan Pumpkin Coffee Cake
Baked vegan pumpkin cheesecake that is packed with pumpkin and spices, has a crunchy ginger cookie crust and caramel pecan topping.
5-Ingredient Chocolate Pecan Date Truffles
These dark chocolate pecan truffles are a super simple but festive treat! Perfect for a dessert tray or for sending as a food gift.
Pumpkin Recipes
It's hard to beat the pumpkin and pecan pairing for the fall!
Pumpkin Pecan Crisp Recipe
This Pumpkin Pecan Crisp is filled with pumpkin, vanilla, and cinnamon and topped with chopped pecans making it perfect for fall!
Pumpkin Rugelach with Caramelized Pecans
Pumpkin rugelach is rolled with sweet candied pecans with warm flavors of cinnamon, cardamom and bright orange zest.
Pumpkin Pecan Pie with Bourbon
This Pumpkin Pecan Pie with bourbon is a combination of two fall favorites!
No Bake Pumpkin Pie Bites with Pecans
These Pumpkin Pie Bites are no-bake and delicious for the fall!
Pumpkin Pecan Dump Cake
This Pumpkin Pecan Dump Cake is perfect for fall with it's combination of fall spices and pecans.
Pecan Pumpkin Coffee Cake
It's hard to beat a coffee cake and even harder to beat one made with pecans and pumpkin!
Layered Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake with Pecan Streusel
This Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Streusel and graham cracker crust will become a holiday favorite!
Paired with Fruit
Pecans and fruit make for a delicious combination!
Air Fryer Baked Apples
These air fried Baked Apples have a gooey cinnamon filling with chopped pecans!
Apple & Pear Crisp
This Apple and Pear Crisp has a warmed spice filling and oat and pecan topping!
Apple Pecan Cheesecake
The pecan crust on this Apple Pecan Cheesecake will make it a crowd favorite!
Apple and Pecan Muffins
Scrumptious apple and pecan muffins that have a light and moist texture and are sweet to taste. Made from low fat Greek yogurt they're only 143 calories each!