Pecan Sandies

Pecan Sandies – a classic shortbread cookie filled alongside toasted pecans in addition to vanilla beans alongside a crisp coating of coarse saccharide making these a wonderful in addition to delicious “perfect anytime cookie.”

I’ve said it earlier in addition to I’ll tell it again, around of the best recipes are the easiest to make.  These few unproblematic ingredients come upwardly together inward a lovely piffling shortbread cookie alongside a fantastic texture in addition to a non also sweetness seize alongside teeth of pecan perfection.  These Pecan Sandies are nigh a piffling also slow to whip together, it would last tempting to brand a batch every time the craving strikes.  It’s a skillful affair this recipe solely makes 2 dozen cookies, approximate you lot improve double it!

 

The dough is mixed together thence rolled into a log and chilled for at to the lowest degree an hour, or overnight, if you lot tin await that long.  I can’t await to encounter how it does frozen inward private slices.  Pop a few out of the freezer in addition to bake upwardly fresh cookies on a moments notice.  Is that a skillful affair or bad thing?

 

It’s a skillful thing!  Toasted pecans in addition to a crisp telephone of turbinado saccharide seal the bargain making these i of the best cookies I’ve made inward a long time.  Sorry to my sense of savor testers, these did non piece of work out the house!

 

 

Thanks for PINNING!

Let’s last baking friends! When you lot endeavor our recipe delight experience costless to piece of work out a comment on this post. I’m certain your experience in addition to insights volition assist all our readers, in addition to me too. Also, if you’re on  feel costless to piece of work out a comment in addition to photograph at that topographic point if you lot convey one! If you lot portion on  tag thence nosotros tin halt past times in addition to plow over your postal service around love. And we’d last real happy if you’d FOLLOW Saving Room for Dessert on | | |   in addition to subscribe to our  channel for all the latest recipes, videos in addition to updates. Thank you!!!

 

Print

Pecan Sandies

Prep Time

20 mins

Cook Time

20 mins

Total Time

40 mins

 

Classic shortbread cookies filled alongside toasted pecans in addition to vanilla beans alongside a crisp coating of coarse saccharide brand these a wonderful in addition to delicious "perfect anytime cookie."

Course:

Cookies

Servings: 24 cookies

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

• 
  3/4
  cup
  pecans
  broken into large pieces
  


• 
  10
  tablespoons
  unsalted butter
  room temperature
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  powdered sugar
  


• 
  1/2
  vanilla bean,
  seeds removed
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  vanilla extract
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  sea salt
  


• 
  1 1/2
  cups
  unbleached all-purpose flour
  


• 
  1
  large egg yolk,
  lightly beaten
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  turbinado sugar
  or other coarse sugar
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread the pecans on a parchment lined baking canvas in addition to bake for five minutes. Remove in addition to cool spell preparing the dough.
   
   


2. 
   
   In the bowl of a stand upwardly mixer fitted alongside the paddle attachment, crunch the butter for 1 infinitesimal until smooth. Add the confectioners' sugar, vanilla edible bean seeds, tabular array salt in addition to vanilla to the butter in addition to blend on medium depression until combined.
   
   


3. 
   
   Add the flour a piffling at a fourth dimension in addition to mix until incorporated.
   
   


4. 
   
   Fold inward the pecans using a condom spatula.
   
   


5. 
   
   Place the dough on a large piece of parchment newspaper lightly dusted alongside flour. Form the dough into a log 1 1/2 inches thick. Wrap the dough tightly inward the parchment newspaper in addition to refrigerate for at to the lowest degree 1 hr or overnight.
   
   


6. 
   
   To bake preheat oven to 350 degrees.
   
   


7. 
   
   Remove the dough from the fridge to residual spell preparing the egg wash.
   
   


8. 
   
   Lightly brush the entire log alongside the lightly beaten egg yolk in addition to scroll inward the turbinado saccharide to coat.
   
   


9. 
   
   Slice into 1/2-inch thick rounds in addition to house on a parchment lined baking sheet.
   
   


10. 
    
    Bake for twenty minutes or until lightly browned on the bottom in addition to set.
    
    


11. 
    
    Cool on a wire rack in addition to shop inward an airtight container.
    
    

Recipe Notes

Recipe adapted from The Craft of Baking past times Karen DeMasco & Mindy Fox

Here are a few to a greater extent than cookies recipes you lot mightiness like!

• Lemon-Lime Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies from Saving Room for Dessert


• Milk Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Shortbread Cookies from The View from Great Island


• Classic Shortbread Cookies from Jo Cooks


• Old-Fashioned Shortbread Cookies alongside Salted Caramel from The Cafe Sucre Farine
  
  

The snowfall is melting in addition to nosotros are dorsum inward work concern hither inward Virginia.  The weather condition is simply crazy this twelvemonth in addition to is supposed to attain the 60’s this weekend.  Looking ahead to boundary in addition to promise to institute the garden early on this year.  I immature adult woman my tomatoes!  Thanks thence much for stopping by!

Tricia

SaveSave

Source: savingdessert.com