Pecan Pie Cookies

Pecan pie is delicious, no matter how you may be inclined to pronounce it. But eating an entire pecan pie is usually frowned upon, you have to take one slice and hope no one notices that you cut your slice to be 4x bigger than everyone else's. Cookies, however, are an easy food to hide in your hands, or pants, or cleavage (this I do not recommend as these cookies are somewhat sticky, but I won't judge). Also these take about 10 minutes to bake in the oven, that's it! In half an hour you can gain about 4lbs and call your Holidays a success. 

What You Will Need for Approximately 24 cookies: 

- 2 prepared Pie Crusts.

- 4 tbs unsalted butter.

- 1/2 cup of pecans, I did not chop mine but you can.

- 2/3 cup of brown sugar.

- 1/2 cup of light or dark corn syrup.

- Pinch of salt.

- 1 tbs of vanilla extract.

- 4 eggs.

- 1/2 cup of bitter or semi sweet chocolate chips for decoration. 

What to do: 

- Preheat oven to 400F. 

- Melt butter in sauce pan over medium low heat.

- Add in the brown sugar, corn syrup, pecans, salt, vanilla extract and mix in with the melted butter.

- Slowly add your eggs on a low heat and stir continuously. Be careful with this step as a high heat can turn your pecan mixture into scrambled eggs. 

- Continue to stir for a few minutes, allowing the mixture to thicken, do not allow to dry out! 

- Roll out your dough (make sure not to do this first as the butter in the dough will melt and you will not get that flaky crust). 

- Cut about 3 inch rounds and spoon your mixture into the middle.

- Bake for approximately 8-10 minutes, until edges are golden brown.

- Allow to cool. Drizzle with melted chocolate (melt on high in microwave in 30 second increments until fully melted, stir in between). 

-Serve with some hot tea or a hot toddy and enjoy! 

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