====== English Toffee Pecan Pie ======
<sub>Preheat oven to 375 degrees</sub>
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This viewer recipe won first place in Martha Stewart's first pie recipe contest.

==== Ingredients ====
  * [[wiki:recipes:pie_crust|Pie Crust]]
  * 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
  * 2/3 cup light corn syrup
  * ¼ cup firmly packed light-brown sugar
  * ¼ cup unsalted butter, melted
  * ¼ teaspoon salt
  * 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  * ½ teaspoon almond extract
  * 1 cup toffee bits
  * 1 cup chopped pecans
  * 22 pecan halves, for garnish

==== Directions ====
  - Make the [[wiki:recipes:pie_crust|pie crust]] as directed and fit it to a 9 inch pie pan.
  - Preheat oven with a rack set in the lower third to 375 degrees. 
  - In a large bowl, mix together eggs, corn syrup, brown sugar, butter, salt, vanilla, almond extract, toffee bits, and chopped pecans.
  - Pour filling into pie crust. 
  - Top with pecans by evenly spacing 14 of them around the outer edge of pie filling. 
  - Make a second row by evenly spacing seven pecans in a smaller circle in the center; place 1 pecan in center.
  - Transfer pie to oven; bake for 20 minutes. 
  - Cover with parchment paper-lined aluminum foil and continue baking until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, 20 to 30 minutes more. 
  - Transfer to a wire rack to cool.