Butter Pecan Apple Crisp

2 30-oz. cans apple pie filling
1/4 c. brown sugar
1 butter pecan cake mix
1 c. whole pecans
2 sticks butter

Spread apple filling in the bottom of a #12 Dutch oven. Sprinkle on brown sugar. Sprinkle on cake mix. Sprinkle on pecans. Make thin slices of butter, and layer them over the top. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Serve with ice cream.

Nathan made this for us a couple of weeks ago.  It's hard to overstate the level of butter pecan goodness in this dessert.  It was seriously amazingly delicious.  It didn't taste much like apple, but the apples were the perfect vehicle to get the buttery nutty goodness into my mouth.