Pecan Cookies are the ultimate holiday cookies. With sweet coconut flakes, brown sugar and crunchy pecans, these cookies will be everyone's favorite!
Cookies are almost everyone's favorite treat. Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, the best thumbprint cookies and cardamom cookies are pretty popular.
Delicious easy cookies for the holidays!
These pecan cookies are one of my favorites. The crunch and the flavor are so lovely! If you are super crazy about the holidays, I bet you have started working on your cookie list for Santa already. I'm still working on mine, but I'm getting there! On top of my list, I have these cookies: they're buttery, nutty and sugary!
How to make Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies?
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- Mix flour, baking soda, salt and coconut flakes in a bowl.
- In another bowl, mix melted butter and sugar with vanilla and an egg.
- Mix dry ingredients with the wet ingredients and add some chopped pecans or walnuts or pecans to the cookie dough.
- Scoop out the cookies onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper, top with pecan halves and bake.
More delicious christmas cookie recipes:
- Peanut Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- Oatmeal Walnut Cookies
- Maple Oatmeal Cookies
- Easy Molasses Cookies
- Krumkake – Norwegian Holiday Cookies
- Best cranberry oatmeal cookies
These brown sugar pecan cookies are perfect for the holidays and as a gift. They're so quick and easy to make that you can make several batches of these and give them as gifts to your family and friends. I always think homemade food gifts are the best because there's so much love and thought behind them.
Pecan cookies variations:
- Chocolate chip pecan cookies: Add ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips to the cookies dough with chopped pecans.
- Maple pecan cookies: Add 3 tablespoons maple syrup to the melted butter.
- Cinnamon pecan cookies: Add 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon to the flour mixture.
Notes and tips to make this cookie recipe
- These cookies have both walnuts and pecans. If you prefer to use only pecans, replace ½ cup chopped walnuts with chopped pecans.
- These cookies don't need to chill in the fridge so you can make them right away. If you want to make the dough ahead, when you're ready to bake, take the dough out of the fridge and let it come to the room temperature before scooping and baking.
- You can store these buttery brown sugar pecan cookies in an airtight container for up to 4 days and you can freeze them for up to a month.
- Make sure you let the cookies cool for 5 minutes before moving them to the cooling rack.
- If the coconut flakes you're using are not sweetened, add ¼ cup more brown sugar.
Who can ever say no to a delicious cookie? And a glass of milk, maybe? These cookies are going to be ones that people will remember for years. They're that good!
Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup 1 stick unsalted butter
- 1 cup brown sugar*
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cup all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup sweetened coconut flakes
- ½ cup chopped walnuts**
- 24 pecan halves to top the cookies
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F/180 C . Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a medium sized bowl, mix flour, baking soda, salt, and coconut flakes. Set aside.
- Melt the butter in a microwave safe bowl.
- Mix the butter and sugar until smooth.
- Add vanilla and egg to the butter mixture. Mix again until smooth.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture. Mix with a spatula or a wooden spoon so the dough comes together.
- Mix in the chopped walnuts.
- Using a round spoon or a mini ice cream scoop, place the cookies on the baking sheets 2 inches apart from each other. Press a pecan half on top of each cookie.
- Bake in the oven for 14 minutes. Turn the sheets halfway so they bake evenly.
- Let the cookies cool on the sheets for 5 minutes and then transfer them onto cooling racks using a spatula.
Notes
- Chocolate chip pecan cookies: Add ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips to the cookies dough with chopped pecans.
- Maple pecan cookies: Add 3 tablespoons maple syrup to the melted butter.
- Cinnamon pecan cookies: Add 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon to the flour mixture.
Nutrition
JMGS
I made these cookies today, the maple variation. They do not look anything like the picture. They flattened and spread out all over the pan and I had to cut them apart after the 5 minutes resting. They are very crunchy, and taste like caramel -- not bad but not what I expected. Is there perhaps a typo in the amounts for the recipe? Or some adjustment that needs to be made because of adding the 3 Tablespoons of maple syrup? Thanks.
Shadi HasanzadeNemati
Hi, thank you for your comment. Did you follow the recipe as mentioned? We are going to test out the recipe again and see if there are any changes that need to be made.
Wilhelmina Wessel
I can't wait to bake up a batch!