Chewy and brittle shouldn’t go together in the same sentence, but they do here because…I MAKE MY OWN RULES!! Just trust me on this one. It’s good, it’s real good. It’s sitting in my freezer just calling my name. Bastard.
I’m so excited the election is over. I miss the days when I didn’t know people’s political opinions. Back in the good ole days. Like 3 months ago. At least now people can kind of stop hating each other for their differences in opinion. Laura doesn’t hate me because I think squat snatching is fun and she thinks it’s awful. We understand that we both have differences in opinion and we definitely don’t rip each others faces off because of it. Politics stuff is weird. All I know is that my Tuesday night (one of which I finally didn’t have to work on) was not filled with laughter and smiling while watching New Girl and The Mindy Project. But instead it was filled with lots of red and blue covering the tv screen. What if I was color blind?! How the hell would I know what was going on!? Bad joke.
I’m bored with politics talk. Let’s talk about me! Only child syndrome going on. So I got my car back yesterday. Remember how it was stolen then found all within 36 hours? Well, I had to get the ignition fixed up since they tore that apart, as well as get an alarm installed. An alarm? Really? I DO NOT have a nice enough car to have an alarm. Whatever. So I have this stealth sounding alarm that makes me look like a tool every time I lock my car. But when I picked up my car, my dad told me to test out the alarm…by smacking the window. So I stood outside, staring at my car, and smacking the window like I was getting my revenge from a cheating incident. Thankfully I haven’t met anyone in years to break my heart and turn me into much uglier Carrie Underwood. Before he cheats style.
I’m going to try to fancy up my car. I’m going to go get it detailed. It needs it. It still smells like weed. I bet these little bros who keep stealing my cars are pumped about Amendment 64 in CO. Now they won’t have to steal a car to just smoke weed in. Even though this Amendment isn’t actually a green light yet, people on Twitter keep asking me if I’m going to spice up my baked goods…meaning with weed. Here’s the thing, weed smells like skunks. And makes me want to eat an entire box of Lucky Charms. So I tend to stay away from it. Especially when it comes to paleo baked good. If I made my sweet potato brownies into sweet weed potato brownies, sh*t could get real ugly. Meaning my ass could triple in size.
Btw, I started washing my face with honey. In the mornings, when I have no make up on. Just a little warm water and honey does the trick. And makes your face feel real smooth. So I’m washing my face with honey in the mornings, oil cleansing at night, and using coconut oil as my face moisturizer in the day AND night. I smell like a hippy. Straight up.
Thanksgiving Dessert: Chewy Pecan Pie Brittle
- Yield: 4-5 1x
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup pecans (more would work if you REALLY love pecans)
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1/2 cup Coconut Oil, melted
- 1/2 cup coconut butter
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- Place a medium saucepan over medium heat.
- Add a tablespoon of coconut oil then add your pecans to the pan. Toss around to coat in the oil and keep moving to help roast your pecans without burning them.
- When your pecans begin to become fragrant and browned a bit, add your honey and maple syrup. Mix well.
- Once your sugar begins to thicken just a little, add your coconut oil and coconut cream concentrate. Keep mixing with a rubber spatula to make sure your coconut cream concentrate doesn’t burn.
- Then add your cinnamon, vanilla extract, and a pinch of salt.
- When everything is well combined, turn burner on low and let simmer for about 3-4 minutes to thicken just a bit. (it won’t get super thick, so don’t expect that)
- While your mixture is thickening, line a 8×8 glass baking dish with parchment paper, pressing the paper down into the sides of the dish.
- Then pour your mixture into the parchment-lined baking dish and use a spoon to spread out the pecans throughout the mixture.
- Place in the freezer and let freeze for an hour or more. When you pull it from the freezer, it should be completely hardened but still have a chewyness to it.
- Use a knife to break it into pieces.
- Store in the freezer until serving!
- Sooooooo much better than pecan pie. #factoflife
Notes
*Prep only takes about 10 minutes, but it should sit in the freezer for over an hour before serving!
**To make it even creamier in texture, ad about 1/4 cup almond butter or sunflower seed butter!
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I tried to make this brittle and for some reason it was WAY too runny! Any thoughts? It still tasted delicious, but wouldn’t even make a sticky consistency, would just be runny the minute it came out of the freezer?
It may need to stay in the freezer for longer or needed a bit more coconut butter…but not totally sure
This looks amazing. And that video is HILARIOUS.
The best honey for face wash is Wedderspoon 100% Raw Manuka honey. My esthetician turned me on to it a few months ago, it is fab. I mix it with a little pure jojoba oil & leave it on my skin for about 10 min. You can find it on Amazon. I love your blog!
I want to lick the burning hot pecan sugar lava right now.
Glad i read reviews, i was wondering why mine was separating water from candy. I scooped out only the candy mixture to freeze and threw the watery part out. Will see how it goes in an hour after freezing.
Mine doesnt look as nice as your pics. Its chunky and thick (i added 1 cup of pecans and got rid of extra coconut oil that separated from the mixture). the fun part was putting the block of candy into a ziplock bag and throwing it until it broke into eatable pieces. Mines definitely brittle! Crack your teeth brittle but then chewy. So good!
I just finished mine (it’s currently in the freezer) and it has like this visible layer of oil or clear liquid on top, should you take that off before it hardens?
no that’s just the coconut oil separating. it’s still perfect and delicious either way!
wow! This stuff is so good! I just made it. I should have made more.
This was so easy to make!!! Except I really needed parchment paper and I waited to the last minute before I realized I ran out. Tin foil didnt work as well. Anyhow…. or anywho…. this is fabulous! Very sweet. I tripled the recipe and increased the nuts by double and boy, I have a LOT. I cut these out in cute little triangles. I dropped some in my expresso. YUM. You should remind readers of this recipe just before christmas for emergency gift plates. Thanks JB, before this webite I thought paleo was nuts. Now I know PALEO is GREAT!!! I will bring a crate of your brittle to my box today and weare doing Angie AND Kelly (in teams). How nuts is that?
This is absolutely delicious!
This was EPICly awesome & easy!!! Heavenly delicious.
And you & your blogs & recipe are once always keepin me paleo happy! Thanks for all you do!
This was the one of the best things I’ve ever eaten in my life. IN MY LIFE. I made it with my aunt, took some home, she called me a few days later to tell me she ate the whole pan. It’s like candy. Really easy. I live in New Hampshire and we have no Whole Foods and I would bet a million dollars no store within 50 miles of me sells coconut cream concentrate soo I made coconut manna instead which I’m pretty sure is the same thing as coconut cream concentrate. Delicious.