Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies are the ultimate holiday cookies. With sweet coconut flakes and crunchy pecans, these cookies will be everyone’s favorite!
This post was first published on December 21st, 2015.
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?
It’s very simple! All you need to do is to mix flour, baking soda, salt and coconut flakes in a bowl. Then melt butter in another bowl and mix it all together with sugar.
Next, add the vanilla and egg and mix until it’s fully incorporated. It’s important that the butter is not too hot at this stage. Then add in the dry ingredients and mix well. Finish with walnuts and once it’s all mixed, scoop the cookies onto the baking sheets. Top with a gorgeous half of pecan and bake.
Voila, cookie perfection!
More delicious cookie recipes:
- Peanut Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- Oatmeal Walnut Cookies
- Maple Oatmeal Cookies
- Easy Molasses Cookies
- Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chunk Skillet Cookie
- Coconut Thumbprint 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.
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!
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Brown Sugar Pecan 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
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.
Recipe Notes
- You can add 1/4 cup more if you want the cookies to be sweeter.
- You can use chopped pecans instead.
These are one of our all time favorite cookies to make and give as gifts.
They are our favorite too! 🙂
These look delicious! And they are perfect for a little hand made gift for the neighbours if you have left things to last minute like me!
Lottie xx
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You are not alone! I have left everything for the last minutes too!
These looks incredibly delicious! I really miss desserts with pecans in them; I found out last year I am highly sensitive to them, so no more pecans for me 🙁 but I still love to make treats with them for friends. Wonderful recipe!
Oh that’s sad Marlyn 🙁 What about walnuts? If you are not sensitive to walnuts you can try them:)
Mm mm well I’ve pinned them cause now I just have to try them
Hope you like them Lindi!
Look SO yummy! If I didn’t feel like I was already maxed out with different types of cookies this holiday, I’d probably add these in!
Thanks Cianna! You can always make these! These are good for any day of the year!
yum! i love nuts in cookies, especially on top! these look delicious! I’m pinning these for later! thanks for sharing!
Thank you Kristen! Glad you like them!
And now I’m hungry.
I don’t even know if they sell pecans anywhere around here. I’m so curious, I’ve never tried them!
They taste very similar to walnuts Lix, you will like them!
This recipe looks so good, I can’t wait to try it! Thank you for sharing!! Have a Happy Christmas!
You too Ashleigh! Have a very happy Christmas!
These cookies sound great, and they are so cute!
Thank you Leah!
These look so super tasty! Sounds like the kids and I are going to have to have a cookie making day! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Marie! Happy you like these!
YUM I want these right now. Great photos!
Thanks! They are really addictive 😀
These look super delicious n I’m sure, would dissapear in one sitting 😉
They will Molly!
They’re so tempting! Looks delicious! 🙂
Thanks Aishwarya! Glad you like them!
Yum! They look so good and I like anything with nuts in them! Look great and I pinned this too!
Glad you like it Clare!