Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Have ready a 9×13 glass baking dish and a pastry blender.
Crust Ingredients:
- 1 + 1/2 GF Flour ( or 1 cup GF flour + 1/2 C ground GF graham crackers)
- 1/4 C coconut flour ( if not using coconut add an additional 1/4 of GF flour
- ¾ C ground pecans
- 1/3 C Organic Cane sugar
- ¾ cup chilled butter (1 ½ sticks) or Earth Balance buttery sticks
*Using a pastry blender, mix thoroughly. Press into 9×13 Pyrex. Bake @ 350 for 15 minutes.
Filling Ingredients:
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk (see note for alternative)
- 1 can pumpkin puree
- 2 eggs
- 2 TBL. Pumpkin Pie Spice (Spice Hunter’s is a nice blend)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
*Blends all filling ingredients together and pour into pre-cooked crust.
NOTE: May use 2 coconut creams by So Delicious OR 1 can whole fat coconut milk + 1/4 Cup cane sugar, honey or agave to sweeten it up
Topping Ingredients:
- 6 Tbl. butter
- 1/3 C brown sugar
- ½-3/4 C GF flour
- ½-3/4 C ground pecans
- 1 tsp cinnamon
*Mix together topping ingredients using a pastry blender. Crumble over filling.
Method:
- Blend crust using a pastry blender or food processor pulsing on and off.(If you continually process it will become very mushy)
- Press crust into 9×13 glass baking dish.
- Bake CRUST in preheated 350 degree for 15 min or until light brown and then remove from oven.
- While crust is baking, blend liquid ingredients. When crust is done, pour filling mixture over baked crust.
- Blend topping with a pastry blender, or fingers, or fork, and sprinkle on top of pumpkin mixture.
- Bake for an additional 45 min (or less depending how hot your oven is) OR until knife inserted into center comes out clean…
Serve with fresh whip cream! So yum!!!
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