Butter Pecan Cookies
David and I love travelling a lot and any chance we have, off we go! We like to discover new places, have new adventures and share new experiences together. Through our trips 🚗🛫, we meet great people; some we’ll keep in touch with and others, unfortunately, we’ll never see or hear from again. It’s okay, that’s life!
We have a few destinations that we love and one of them is the Palm Springs area. Both of us are avid golfers 🏌️♀️🏌️♂️, so this is the perfect place for us to be. It’s on a golf course that we met our friend Lynn. He is an amazing man with a background that will surprise anyone… Lynn has become a good friend. The next time we were in the area, we met his lovely wife, June.
June and I clicked immediately, she has such a great personality! She’s smart, educated, fun to be around and an undeniable story teller. Last year after we left Palm Springs, we went to Los Angeles to stay with them for a few days. That is when she kindly gave me a few of her recipes… it really touched me!
This featured recipe is one of June’s… her Butter Pecan Cookies and they are so delicious! The taste from the pecans combined with butter gives these cookies 🍪 such a great flavor. These are the kind of cookies that you can serve anytime, including the Holidays 🎄 along with Spicy Gingerbread and Thumbprint Cookies!
Here’s a lovely picture of June with Mimosa…
As I mentioned in the intro of the video, I modified a couples of things in her Butter Pecan Cookies. I reduced the amount of sugar and instead of using confectioners’, I substituted brown sugar. I transferred my cookie dough to the refrigerator for about 1 hour 🕐 not only for the flavors to develop but also to firm up the dough. I also placed half a pecan on top of each cookie for some added flair.
We’re looking forward to seeing them again in the next couple of months as we are returning to one of our favorite places again. In the meantime, David and I enjoyed her lovely Butter Pecan Cookies 🍪 and now you can as well with this great recipe…
Bon Appétit! 🍽
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Butter Pecan Cookies
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Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter tips & tricks
- 1/2 cup brown sugar, or to taste
- 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1/8 tsp. ground Himalayan sea salt
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans, plus 12 halves for garnish
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar, for dipping, or as needed
Directions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream the butter until soft. Add brown sugar and process for 2 minutes.
- Meantime, in a mixing bowl, combine flour with salt; whisk until well blended.
- Add ½ flour mixture to the butter mixture and process on low speed until somewhat mixed. Add the remaining flour and process again until well incorporated. While processing, add vanilla extract.
- Add chopped pecans and process until the nuts are evenly distributed, about 1 minute.
- Transfer the dough to a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, making sure it touches the surface, and chill for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Form 12 little balls and place them on a cookie sheet. Using the bottom of a measuring cup or a glass, dip in granulated sugar before flatten the balls. Place one half pecan per cookie pressing down gently.
- Transfer to the preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes, rotating the cookie sheet halfway thru cooking.
- Remove from the heat and let the cookies cool off on the sheet for 10 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
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