Make southern pecan cookies with our easy butter pecan cookie recipe. You can enjoy homemade butter pecan cookies any day with this Texas pecan cookie recipe.
These buttery pecan cookies are always a hit at our house and we don’t wait till Christmas time to make them. And we consider them southern pecan cookies or Texas pecan cookies. Not sure why but both names is what we grew up calling them. Maybe because southerners and Texans use an abundance of pecans in so many different ways.
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Who can resist a buttery pecan cookie? Not I! We used a basic butter cookie recipe and added chopped pecans in the mix and then topped them with a half of a pecan. And it’s so pretty and tasty!
Butter Pecan Cookie Recipe:
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 stick butter, softened (approximately ½ a cup)
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 brown sugar, packed
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 20-22 pecan halves
- 1 ½ cups chopped pecans
Instructions for Southern Pecan Cookies:
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In a bowl, sift together the flour, salt and baking soda and then set aside.
In a different and larger bowl, mix together butter and both the white sugar and the brown sugar.
Add egg into the sugar mixture and mix completely. Then add vanilla and continue to mix.
Slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix until cookie dough forms.
Fold your chopped pecans into the cookie dough combining well. Then wrap your cookie dough in plastic and chill in the refrigerator for about 2 hours (or more).
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. And remove cookie dough from refrigerator and roll into 1 inch spheres. Place about 12 on your standard size cookie sheet. Place one pecan half on the top of each cookie ball. Repeat with a second cookie sheet.
Place in your preheated oven and bake for 9 to 11 minutes. Then remove from oven and allow to cool on a wire rack.
Serve and enjoy!
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Southern Butter Pecan Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 stick butter softened (approximately ½ a cup)
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar packed
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups chopped pecans
- 20-22 pecan halves
Instructions
- In a medium size bowl, sift together the flour, salt and baking soda and then set aside.
- In a different and larger bowl, mix together butter and both the white sugar and the brown sugar.
- Add egg into the sugar mixture and mix completely. Then add vanilla and continue to mix.
- Slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix until cookie dough forms.
- Fold your chopped pecans into the cookie dough combining well. Then wrap your cookie dough in plastic and chill in the refrigerator for about 2 hours (or more).
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. And remove cookie dough from refrigerator and roll into 1 inch spheres. Place about 12 on your standard size cookie sheet. Place one pecan half on the top of each cookie ball. Repeat with a second cookie sheet.
- Place in your preheated oven and bake for 9 to 11 minutes. Then remove from oven and allow to cool on a wire rack.
- Serve
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