Pound Cake Cookies

Love pound cake?  Well, savor the tender texture & flavour of cream cheese pound cake inwards bite-sized shape alongside these tasty piddling Pound Cake Cookies!

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In our house, nosotros are huge fans of pound cake.  In my husband's dwelling describe solid growing up, classic pound cake was a staple ... So much so, that his mom fifty-fifty had a exceptional dedicated pound cake cupboard.  To this day, if there's pound cake inwards the describe solid it's stored inwards that exceptional piddling cupboard.

Now that's serious dedication to pound cake!

Well, my Southern-born-and-bred married adult man has passed his dearest of pound cake along to me.

Before moving to the South from Vermont, I had never had a homemade pound cake.  Little did I know what I was missing!  I'm in addition to thus happy to live on able to tell that I convey been enlightened to the pure deliciousness of truthful homemade Southern pound cake.  It's texture in addition to flavour exactly can't live on beat.

Pound cake inwards cookie form?? ... Yes, please! Great taste and  a pretty presentation. You can't trounce that.

So when I came across this recipe for Pound Cake Cookies, I couldn't await to give these piddling bite-sized beauties a try.

I mean, pound cake inwards cookie form?? ... Yes, please!

And alongside the added bonus of a pecan one-half on top?

That's fifty-fifty to a greater extent than to love.  Mmmm hmmmm, I extra-love that the tops are adorned alongside pecan halves that larn a teeny fighting toasted every bit the Pound Cake Cookies bake.  Great sense of savour and  a pretty presentation ... y'all can't trounce that.

The texture of these cookies is soft in addition to tender on the inside, alongside exactly a slight amount of compaction on the outside.  

I similar my cookies soft ... in addition to thus I tend to bake these to the shorter side of the baking time, alongside non much golden-brown starting to exhibit upwards on the edges.  If y'all prefer a tad fighting to a greater extent than compaction on the exterior of your cookies, bake your Pound Cake Cookies to the longer side of the baking fourth dimension in addition to allow a piddling to a greater extent than golden-ness to develop.

As for taste, these cookies are non overly sweet. 

The texture of these cookies is soft in addition to tender on the inside, alongside exactly a slight amount of compaction on the outside. 

With their combination of cream cheese in addition to chocolate-brown saccharide every bit the recipe's exclusively sweetener, they convey an ever-so-slightly-sweet, rich-and-tangy flavour reminiscent of ... good ... cream cheese pound cake, of course.

To brand these bite-sized tasty treats, mix upwards a uncomplicated butter in addition to cream cheese based batter in addition to chill it for at to the lowest degree two hours or overnight to stiffen the dough dorsum upwards earlier baking.

Once chilled, curl the dough into pocket-size balls each nigh 1-inch inwards size ...

... in addition to press a pretty little pecan half into the top of each dough ball.

Bake them upwards for a curt 12 minutes or so, until they're a really lite golden chocolate-brown on the edges.

When baked, the Pound Cake Cookies puff a tiny fighting but pretty much retain the same shape they went inwards the oven with.

Once baked, all that remains is to savor the tender texture & flavour of cream cheese pound cake inwards its novel bite-sized form!  

We enjoyed this latest batch alongside a prissy warm loving cup of tea.  

But no affair how y'all savor them, Pound Cake Cookies are certain to piece of occupation a novel menage unit of measurement favorite ... peradventure fifty-fifty worthy of beingness stored inwards their really ain exceptional dedicated pound cake cupboard, exactly similar the favorite pound cake of my husband's childhood.

Pound Cake Cookies
Source:  Adapted from Taste of the South, May/June 2015
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

• 1/2 c. unsalted butter, softened
• 4 oz. cream cheese, softened
• 1 c. brown saccharide
• 1 large egg
• 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2 c. all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 36 pecan halves

Directions

1. Beat butter, cream cheese, in addition to chocolate-brown saccharide alongside an electrical mixer at medium speed until fluffy, nigh iii minutes. Add egg in addition to vanilla; trounce until exactly combined.
2. Combine flour in addition to salt. Gradually add together flour in addition to common salt to butter mixture; trounce until combined. Cover in addition to chill for at to the lowest degree two hours or overnight.
3. Roll dough into 36 1-inch balls. Place two inches apart on baking sheets. Press a pecan half into the top of each ball.
4. Bake at 350 degrees until edges are lite golden brown, nigh 12 - fourteen minutes. Let cool on pan nigh v minutes; transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely. Store inwards an airtight container for upwards to a week.

Makes 36 cookies.

Enjoy!

Please savor these other tasty treats from ...

Classic Pound Cake

Coconut Pound Cake

Coconut-Dark Chocolate Pound Cake

Cinnamon Roll Cookies

Chocolate Crack Pie

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