Butter Pecan Cookies

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Butter Pecan Cookies

Sure to be popular among cookie recipes, make these Butter Pecan Cookies for your next holiday party. They're fast, easy to make and taste divine.

Cooking Time9 min

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 pound pecan halves

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
     
  2. Cream butter in large mixing bowl. Gradually add brown sugar and granulated sugar. Cream well.
     
  3. Add unbeaten egg yolk and vanilla and beat well.
     
  4. Blend in sifted flour to form a stiff dough. Mix in pecans.
     
  5. Shape dough into small balls. Place on greased cookie sheet.
     
  6. Flatten cookies with bottom of glass dipped in sugar.
     
  7. Bake at 350 degrees for 7-9 minutes, till golden brown (do not overbrown.)
     
  8. Cool before frosting. Garnish with pecan halves. 

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These are soft and rich and sweet and don't need any frosting! I first made balls of cookie dough from a scoop, so they would be the uniform in size, and then I chilled them in frig just a bit. This helps them hold their shape better when baking. There's a lot of butter in these, so they would have a tendency to spread out when baking before setting, so chilling helps prevent that.

Are there no pecans in the cookie dough? if there is you don't show adding it.

We included the pecans in step 4. Thank you.

@Member 8398958 - There is no specific frosting for this cookie. You can choose any frosting you like! -The Editors of RecipeLion

What kind of frosting do you use?

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