walnut pie

Baked nutty treat

Walnut pie is a dessert featuring a filling of walnuts in a sweet, often caramelized custard, baked in a pastry crust.

It resembles pecan pie but substitutes walnuts, producing a slightly more bitter, earthier flavor: She made walnut pie because pecans were too expensive.

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brown sugar · filling · slice · buttery · homemade · from scratch · lattice · toasted · brown butter · caramel · bourbon · molasses · golden · crumbly · harvest · autumn · grandmother · family recipe

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Opposites
pie filling type

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Pastry with cooked fruit

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flavor profile

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Citrus custard with browned topping

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texture density

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Airy gelatin-set dessert

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Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G