Low Carb Pecan Pie Tarts - Divalicious Recipes (2024)

Pastry

• ½ cup coconut flour
• 4 tablespoons almond flour
• ½ teaspoon xanthan gum
• ½ cup butter
• 2 oz cream cheese
• 3 tablespoons monkfruit/erythritol sweetener or other low carb sweetener
• ½ teaspoon salt

Filling

• ¼ cup butter melted
• 1 medium egg beaten
• ¼ cup brown sweetener low carb sweetener
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoons maple syrup, sugar free
• 2 tablespoons cream heavy
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup pecans
• 20 whole pecans optional topping

Make the pastry

• Place the pastry ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth and a dough appears.

• Remove the dough and shape into a ball. Cover with parchment paper and place in the fridge for 30 minutes to chill.

Make the filling

• In a medium bowl, stir together the brown sweetener, sugar free maple syrup, egg, butter, vanilla, cream and salt.

• Stir in the chopped pecans.

Assemble

• Preheat the oven to 190C/375F degrees.

• Remove the pastry from the fridge and roll into 20 balls

• Place them in a mini muffin tin (you will need to do 2 batches as most mini muffin tins have 16 spaces)

• Press the pastry balls into the muffin tin making sure that there is a large “well” in the middle and spread the edges out.

• Spoon the mixture into the pastry cases, ensuring that you get a good portion of the chopped pecans.

• Place a whole pecan on top.

• Bake for 20-25 minutes until the tart edges are golden.

• Set aside to cool before removing from the tin.

Makes 20 mini tarts. You may want to bake two batches or make mini tarts with a thicker pastry to fit one sit.

I used a silicone mini muffin tin

The net carbs will be the total carb count minus the fibre count. Carb count excludes sugar alcohols.

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