Butter pecan

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Butter pecan
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Butter pecan caramel ice cream
Place of origin United States
Main ingredients pecans, butter, and vanilla

Butter pecan is a flavor, prominent especially in the southern United States, in ice cream, cakes, and cookies. The flavor is an element of soul food, the cuisine of Black Americans. [1]

Roasted pecans, butter, and vanilla flavor are used in butter pecan baked goods. Butter pecan ice cream is smooth vanilla ice cream with a slight buttery flavor, with pecans added. It is manufactured by many major ice cream brands. A variant of the recipe is butter almond, which replaces the pecans with almonds.

Butter pecan is a popular flavor of ice cream produced by many companies and is also one of the thirty-one flavors of Baskin Robbins. [2]

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References

  1. Ghabour, Dahlia (2021). "'Is butter pecan ice cream a 'Black thing'?' Louisville podcast explores how race impacts food". Courier Journal. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  2. Flavors | Baskin-Robbins