All the taste of a pecan pie in a cookie using pie crust. Nothing missing in these cookies. My husband was so excited to try these, he loves pecan pie.
Pecan Pie Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 Prepared Pie Crust Refrigerated
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 4 eggs beaten
- 4 TBS butter melted
- 1/2 cup corn syrup
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup pecan pieces
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a medium sauce pan, mix together brown sugar, eggs, butter, corn syrup, salt, and pecans.
- Turn heat on to medium and stir continually until mixture thickens resembling pudding. Turn off heat and let rest.
- Lightly flour work surface. Lay out your pie crust. Use a rolling pin and roll out pie crust to thin it out.
- Using a glass or cookie cutter around 3 inches in diameter, cut out circles from pie crust and place on a parchment lined baking pan.
- Crimp edges around 1/8 inches all around circles to hold in the filling.
- Place 1 TBS of filling into center of circles and spread evenly.
- Place cookies into oven for 8-12 minutes until lightly browned and firm.
- Cool on a rack completely.
- Enjoy.