Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies

Name: Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 14 min
Total time: 24 min
Yield: 24 cookies
Ingredients: 1/2 cup 1 stick unsalted butter; 1 cup brown sugar*; 1 egg; 1/2 tsp vanilla extract; 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/3 cup sweetened coconut flakes; 1/2 cup chopped walnuts**; 24 pecan halves to top the cookies

December 2, 2018 By Shadi HasanzadeNemati 31 Comments

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe

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 pecan cookies for the holidays!

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 brown sugar pecan cookies: they’re buttery, nutty and sugary!

How to make Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies?

This pecan cookies recipe is very simple:

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:

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 1/2 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 easy pecan cookies:

These cookies have both walnuts and pecans. If you prefer to use only pecans, replace 1/2 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 1/4 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!

5 from 6 votes