Butter Pecan Cookies
"This recipe for eggless cookies is from Everyday Food May 2004."
photo by kissindynamite
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup pecans
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1⁄3 cup sugar, plus more for coating
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup flour
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- On a baking sheet, toast pecans until fragrant, about 6 minutes. Let cool completely; finely chop.
- Cream butter and 1/3 cup sugar until light, about 1 minute.
- Beat in vanilla, salt, and flour, just until dough comes together.
- Fold in pecans.
- Separate dough into 12 pieces; squeeze dough to shape into balls. Roll in sugar.
- Place, 3 inches apart, on a baking sheet. Gently flatten with the bottom of a glass. Sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake until golden brown, about 15 minutes.
- Sprinkle with more sugar.
- Cool cookies on a wire rack.
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Reviews
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I made this recipe with shortening instead of butter (because I had none). It worked. They turned out really yummy. They're a tad dry tho, so I'd suggest a tablespoon of milk added to it. Also, I candied the pecans. Gave them a sweeter flavor.
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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