Recipe: Perfect Toffee Pecan Cookies

Toffee Pecan Cookies. Fold in the butterscotch chips and pecans. In small bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. In medium bowl, beat butter and shortening with electric mixer on medium speed until creamy.

Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; continue beating until well mixed. Reduce speed to low; add flour, baking powder and salt. You can cook Toffee Pecan Cookies using 9 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Toffee Pecan Cookies

1. It's 2 cup of softened butter.
2. It's 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
3. It's 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
4. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.
5. You need 4 cup of flour.
6. It's 2 tsp of cinnamon.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
8. You need 1 cup of toffee pieces.
9. You need 1 cup of chopped pecans.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add in the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Stir in the pecans and toffee. Drop by rounded teaspoonsful onto an ungreased cookie sheet (leave room for expansion).

Toffee Pecan Cookies step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Cream butter, sugars, and vanilla.
3. Add flour, cinnamon and salt.
4. Mix thoroughly.
5. Add toffee and pecans.
6. Mix completely.
7. If you choose to scoop the cookies there is no need to chill the dough.
8. If you want them to look like traditional shortbread cookies and half dip them in chocolate, you should roll dough into a log, wrap tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
9. The dough then can be sliced into rounds.
10. Place dough— however you have prepared it— onto parchment lined baking sheets.
11. Bake 12-15 minutes.
12. Once completely cooled, if you want to dip in chocolate, melt 1 cup chocolate chips in small sauce pan.
13. Half dip each cookie and place on parchment lined, cold baking sheets.
14. Sprinkle with more chopped pecans or toffee pieces.

Gradually add flour mixture to the bowl and mix until completely combined. Fold in pecans and toffee bits until all ingredients are well incorporated. In large bowl, stir together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. The butter should be soft enough to mix thoroughly, but not melted. Add the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk and stir until combined.