These pecan pie cookies look and taste just like mini pecan pies! Perfect for festive cookie platters where you want to make something slightly different. You can spice up the cookies by adding cinnamon, ginger, or nutmeg to the cookie dough.
Pecan Pie Cookies Ingredients
This pecan pie cookie recipe is easy to make with basic ingredients. Here’s what you’ll need:
· Butter: This recipe calls for two sticks of butter — ¼ cup for the filling and ¾ cup for the cookies.
· Sugar: You’ll need confectioners’ sugar for the filling and brown sugar for the cookies.
· Corn syrup: Light corn syrup adds sweetness and helps hold the filling together.
· Pecans: Of course, you’ll need finely chopped pecans for these seasonal cookies!
· Flour: All-purpose flour gives the cookie dough structure.
· Baking powder: Baking powder acts as a leavener, which means it helps the cookies rise.
· Egg: One whole egg lends moisture and helps bind the cookie dough,
· Vanilla: A teaspoon of vanilla extract enhances the overall flavor.
How to Make Pecan Pie Cookies
You’ll find the full, step-by-step recipe below — but here’s a brief overview of what you can expect when you make these pecan pie cookies:
1. Cook the first three ingredients over medium heat until the sugar dissolves.
2. Stir in the pecans.
3. Beat the wet ingredients for the dough together, then gradually add the dry mixture.
4. Roll the dough into balls and press it into muffin cups. Fill with pecan filling.
5. Bake until the edges are lightly browned.
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