Sugared Danish Butter Cookies with Pecan Halves

Name: Sugared Danish Butter Cookies with Pecan Halves
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 egg, beaten; 946 milliliters all-purpose flour; 88 pecan halves, toasted; 1 Tbsp coarse sugar crystals for sprinkling (optional); 355 milliliters cold unsalted butter, cut into chunks; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 355 milliliters white sugar

Sugared Danish Butter Cookies with Pecan Halves is a vegetarian dessert. This recipe makes 1 servings with 6406 calories, 71g of protein, and 374g of fat each. This recipe covers 65% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have egg, butter, pecan halves, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (200 degrees C).

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Oven

In a mixing bowl, sift the flour and white sugar together, and stir in 1 egg and the vanilla extract until well combined. Using a pastry cutter, cut the cold butter into the mixture until it resembles coarse cornmeal. Shape the dough into a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

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Vanilla Extract

Granulated Sugar

Cornmeal

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Wrap

Egg

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Pastry Cutter

Plastic Wrap

Mixing Bowl

Divide the dough in half, and roll into two 11-inch-long logs. Wrap one of the logs in waxed paper and then plastic wrap, and refrigerate overnight.

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Dough

Roll

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Place 3 tablespoons of coarse sugar crystals on a flat plate.

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Coarse Sugar

Brush the second log with beaten egg, and roll it in the sugar crystals, coating it thickly. Carefully wrap the sugared log in plastic wrap, and refrigerate overnight. (See Cook's Note.)

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Sugar

Roll

Wrap

Egg

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Plastic Wrap

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C) and line baking sheets with parchment paper.

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Oven

Cut the unsugared log of dough into round slices about 1/8-inch thick, and place the rounds onto the prepared baking sheets, about 1/2-inch apart. Top each round with a pecan half.

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Dough

Pecans