Sunday, December 11, 2016

PECAN PIE COOKIES



1 cup brown sugar
¾ cup softened butter
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder

Filling:
1 cup chopped pecans
½ cups brown sugar
¼ cup heavy cream
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350°. 
Combine all cookie ingredients except flour and baking powder.

Beat until creamy. 
Add flour and baking powder, mix until well blended. 
Shape dough into 1 ¼ inch balls. 
Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. 
Make indentation in each ball with thumb, rotate thumb to hollow out slightly. 
Combine all filling ingredients in a bowl. 
Fill each cookie with a 1/2 tsp of filling. 
Bake 8 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. 
Makes three dozen.

**Note: This recipe is weird. In order to get the dough to filling ratio to work out you need two batches of the dough and 1 1/2 batches of the filling.