Frosted Butter Pecan Cookies: These do-it-yourself brown sugar cookies are made with browned butter, darkish brown sugar, vanilla, and maple sugar toasted pecans—the key to creating them higher than the remainder. Every cookie is flippantly dipped in a candy, thick, and creamy pecan-infused maple frosting that units overtop every buttery pecan cookie. These cookies are completely delicious. It is a new favourite cookie for the season of baking, sharing, and gifting.

Right here we go! With Halloween on Thursday, my ideas are slowly shifting to the Thanksgiving vacation, and I’m so excited! One of many many enjoyable issues about creating and sharing recipes with you all is that I can actually embrace and actually overshare all vacation recipes, that are my favourite to create.

If there’s one season I like probably the most for cooking and baking, it’s this time of 12 months.

I need these recipes to glitter and, and much more importantly, be scrumptious! I undoubtedly acquired this from my Nonnie, whom I miss a lot! She made every thing particular irrespective of the season, however particularly within the fall!

And my gosh, she would love these cookies!! Identical to my mother, Nonnie beloved a great butter pecan cookie. Actually, she beloved pecans generally!

Taking inspiration from my Nonnie’s brown sugar pecan Brie, I baked up these cookies, and they’re so good! I even added some chocolate to them!

Substances and Particular Instruments

Pecan Combine Substances 

• pecans
• maple syrup (use actual maple syrup, nothing with added sugars)
• darkish brown sugar
• cinnamon

Cookie Substances 

• butter
• brown sugar
• eggs
• vanilla extract
• flour
• baking soda
• salt
• darkish chocolate chunks

Frosting Substances 

• powdered sugar
• vanilla
• milk

Particular Instruments

• small pot
• sheet pans
• electrical mixer
• small whisk or fork

Step-by-step particulars

Step 1: make the pecan syrup

In a small pot, combine the maple syrup and pecans. Simmer till the maple syrup is steamy and you may odor the sweetness within the air.

Simmering the pecans within the maple infuses the maple with the pecan taste.

Pull the syrup off the warmth, use a fork to pressure out the pecans onto a parchment lined baking sheet.

Toss the pecans with brown sugar and cinnamon, then bake them till they’re caramelized. Allow them to cool, after which give them a great chop.

Step 2: brown the butter

Brown one stick of butter, leaving the opposite stick at room temperature. This offers you the flavour of browned butter however leaves you with a cookie that has nice texture, too.

When the butter is browned, pour it right into a bowl, then add the remaining stick of butter.

Step 3: make the cookie dough

To the butter you wish to add the brown sugar and beat every thing to mix. Now add the eggs and vanilla.

Combine within the dry components: flour, baking soda, and salt.

Step 4: the mix-ins

Subsequent, combine 3/4 of the chopped pecans and a few chocolate chunks into the dough and roll into balls.

Save a handful of pecans for topping the cookies!

Step 5: chilling and baking

Chill the dough balls for five to 10 minutes. I don’t often do that when baking cookies, however with this recipe, I discovered {that a} fast chill yields one of the best cookie. Thicker however not cakey and with simply barely set edges!

As soon as chilled, bake the cookies for 11-13 minutes. While you pull the cookies out, give them a light-weight faucet on the counter to make sure they set completely.

Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet.

End these up!

Step 6: make the frosting

Use the reserved pecan infused maple syrup to make the frosting. Combine the maple with powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk.

Add a pinch of sea salt too!

Step 7: dip every cookie

End the cookies with a dip into the frosting. Then sprinkle the tops of every frosted cookie with chopped pecans.

These are the proper vacation cookies. I’m getting so enthusiastic about this 12 months’s cookie field!

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