Caramel Pecan Cookies

Name: Caramel Pecan Cookies
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 36
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 237 milliliters heavy cream; 227 grams cups pecans , toasted, cooled, and coarsely chopped; 1 teaspoons salt; 355 milliliters sugar; 6 Tbsps 3/4 stick unsalted butter, cut into bits; 1 teaspoon vanilla

The recipe Caramel Pecan Cookies could satisfy your Southern craving in roughly 45 minutes. This dessert has 116 calories, 1g of protein, and 9g of fat per serving. This gluten free and vegetarian recipe serves 36. If you have heavy cream, butter, sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Grease a 13- by 9-inch metal baking pan, then line with foil, leaving a 2-inch overhang on both ends, and grease foil.

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Aluminum Foil

Follow recipe for basic butter cookies to make dough (do not chill), then press dough evenly onto bottom of baking pan, using plastic wrap on top to prevent dough from sticking to your fingers, and chill until firm, about 20 minutes.

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Butter

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Wrap

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While crust chills, put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F.

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Crust

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Oven

Bake crust until golden brown, about 30 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack 20 minutes. (Leave oven on.)

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Cook sugar in a 2 1/2- to 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, undisturbed, until it begins to melt. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally with a fork, until sugar is melted to a deep golden caramel. Tilt pan and carefully pour in cream (caramel will harden and steam vigorously). Cook over moderately low heat, stirring, until caramel is dissolved.

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Caramel

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Sugar

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Remove from heat and stir in butter, vanilla, salt, and pecans.

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Immediately spread topping over cooled crust and bake until bubbling, about 20 minutes. Cool completely in pan on rack, about 2 hours.

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Run a heavy knife under hot water, then wipe dry and cut confection into 2-inch triangles, diamonds, or squares.

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Water

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Cookies keep, layered between sheets of wax paper or parchment, in an airtight container at room temperature 1 week.

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Servings:

237milliliters

heavy cream 227grams

cups pecans , toasted, cooled, and coarsely chopped 1teaspoons

salt 355milliliters

sugar 6Tbsps

3/4 stick unsalted butter, cut into bits 1teaspoon

vanilla

Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel

Southern can be paired with Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel. In general, there are a few rules that will help you pair wine with southern food. Food-friendly riesling or sparkling white wine will work with many fried foods, while zinfandel is great with barbecued fare. The RELAX Riesling with a 4.1 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 10 dollars per bottle.