Pecan Thins
- Ready In:
- 4hrs 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
96 cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1⁄2 cups finely chopped pecans
directions
- Cream butter.
- Gradually add sugar, beating well.
- Add egg and vanilla and blend well.
- Combine dry ingredients except pecans and gradually add to creamed mixture, beating well after each addition.
- Stir in pecans.
- Divide dough in half and shape each half into a 1 1/2" diameter log.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and chill 3 hours or until firm.
- Cut dough into 1/4" thick slices.
- Place 2" apart on lightly greased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 12 minutes or until lightly browned at 350°.
- Cool on wire racks.
- Can be stored in airtight container for several weeks.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.