Just wanted you to know that these sweet, brown sugar chewy butter pecan cookies are sponsored by my friends over at Amoretti!
These gluten free Butter Pecan Cookies are perfectly crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside! A paleo and vegan friendly dairy-free treat for the holidays!
PIN Brown Sugar Chewy Butter Pecan Cookies
Chew-chew-chew-CHEWWWWWY.
That is what these crisp, melt-in-your mouth little cookies with pecans are.
They’re festive little gems loaded with RICH, buttery ghee, sweet coconut sugar and MOLASSES for the CHEW that I am HIGHLY, HIGHLY addicted to during the Christmas-cookie-eating-season that we are currently in.
Internet friends. Everything in me <3 <3 <3’s everything about each and every nutty, chewy bite of this butter pecan cookie recipe. It reminds me of something that your Grandma would make, which means you can basically TASTE THE LOVE in EVERY BITE.
Cookies nestled with love in every delicious nook and cranny >>>> non-love cookies.
FACT.
The outside of these brown sugar chewy butter pecan cookies bakes to the ULTIMATE golden brown, crispy goodness, while the inside is laced with flavorful notes of DEEP, rich molasses that keep it chewy and PERFECT.
Did you know that brown sugar helps baked good stay chewy because it has molasses in it? NOW YOU DO. <—That’s why the brown butter oatmeal cookies are SO chewy too!!
Which is why I cheated the system and used an EXTRA molasses punch to create the NIRVANA of cookie texture BLISS.
There IS always a method to my madness. I pinky swear.
How-EV-er, molasses is NOT the only super-secret-except-not-so-secret-anymore ingredient in this pecan cookies recipe.
Amoretti’s Natural PECAN FLOUR is a real thing that exists on this Earth and it is just made ENTIRELY of nourishing, wholesome, healthy-fat loaded PECANS.
And you thought that you could only flour-i-fy coconut and almonds. <— Real life confession: I used to think this too, until Amoretti BROADENED MY HORIZONS, so you are not alone in this thinking.
[clickToTweet tweet=”Melt in your mouth, chewy #Paleo #Vegan Butter Pecan Cookies are perfect for #Christmas! @Amoretti” quote=”Melt in your mouth, chewy #Paleo #Vegan Butter Pecan Cookies are perfect for #Christmas! @Amoretti” theme=”style2″]This delicious, nutty flour made some ADDICTING pecan pie paleo cookies last year, and it’s giving a 1-2 PECAN PUNCH of goodness in these paleo pecan cookies THIS YEAR.
Because why have one times the nuts when you could have TWO? Go big or GO HOME.
Although, home is probably where the cookies are, so maybe you want to go there….?
Never mind. That is beside the point.
The point is that these BUTTERY shortbread-like gluten free pecan cookies are loaded with all the nutty flavor that your mouth craves at the promise of such a flavor combo.
First the ghee glides over your tongue in buttery-bliss, which is one up-ed by the golden brown, toasty-pecan flour cookie shell and – the big finale – a CRISPY-CRUNCH of ROASTY, TOASTY real pecans.
Texture: chewy, melt in your mouth, CRISPY.
Flavor: BUTTERY. RICH. TOASTY. GRANDMA LOVE.
And not the kind of Grandma love that usually ends in you receiving some heinous sweater when it’s TOO LATE to rock it at an ugly Christmas sweater party.
Don’t lie. The sweater she made you last year is totally going to make its debut at a party this year. I KNOW YOU.
Anyway. These vegan pecan cookies are basically a mish-mash of deliciousness that is like going on a taste bud vacation to the land of cookie MAGIC.
I don’t know where that it is, but I think we can all agree that we WANT TO GO THERE.
Ingredients
- 1/2 Cup Pecans
- 1/2 Cup Coconut sugar (or brown sugar)
- 1/2 Cup Ghee, softened to room temperature (or butter or vegan butter)
- 1 Tbsp Molasses
- 1 1/2 Cups Amoretti Natural Pecan Flour (158g)
- 6 Tbsp Coconut flour
- 1/4 tsp Salt
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Spread your pecans on a small baking sheet and bake until nutty smelling about 10-12 minutes. Roughly chop and set aside.
- Beat your coconut sugar with softened ghee for approximately 1 minute. Add 1 tbsp of molasses and beat until well combined.
- Add 1 1/2 cups of pecan flour, 6 Tbsp of coconut flour and 1/4 tsp of salt to the bowl and stir until well mixed. Fold in the chopped pecans.
- Drop by tablespoon sized balls onto a parchment paper covered cookie sheet and press out to about 1/2 inch.
- Bake until the edges of the cookies are golden brown and the top of the cookie is just set approximately 14 minutes.
- Let cool on the pan for 10 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- DEVOUR
Nutrition Info:
Recipes written and produced on Food Faith Fitness are for informational purposes only.
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WEIGHT WATCHERS POINTS PER SERVING: SMART POINTS: 7 POINTS+: 5. OLD POINTS: 4
(per 1 cookie)
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Lorie says
Pecans are my favorite but of all. Butter Pecsn is one of my favorite ice cream flavors. Sooooo this is my new favorite cookie!!!!
Taylor Kiser says
YES! Maybe WITH some ice cream 😉
Amy @ Amy's Healthy Baking says
WHAT??? Pecan flour exists?? That’s the most AMAZING thing ever!! Pecans are my mom’s all-time favorite nuts, so I definitely need to check out pecan flour… And make some cookies to surprise her! 😉
Taylor Kiser says
RIGHT?! IT DOES EXIST and it’s so good! You must find it!
Suzy says
Pecan pie crust for pecan pie and pecan date truffles. Your cookies look delicious. Will make them also.
Taylor Kiser says
SOOO yum! I hope you love the cookies! 🙂
Lacey says
I would love to make chocolate caramel pecan bars with this flour. I can’t wait to try this cookie recipe. It looks amazing!
Taylor Kiser says
Those bars sound SO good!
Emily says
CRISPY buttery delicious pecan cookies?!?! SAY WHAT? I loved the cookie recipe I tried from you; you are becoming a cookie queen right now Taylor!
Taylor Kiser says
I am SOOOO excited to hear that! Thank you friend! <3
Joanne says
I would definitely bake your cookies with this pecan flour. Pecan’s are my favorite nuts.
Taylor Kiser says
So good right?!
Aggie says
Ah, these are totally my kind of cookies!!! I want one now!
Taylor Kiser says
I’ll share!
Lindsay Cotter says
These cookies are calling my name! Crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside! Just the way I like them!
Taylor Kiser says
Me too! Thank ya!
Kelly says
I have no idea how it would work, but I would love to experiment with this flour and see if I could come up with a single serving pecan dessert, like a mug cake, but with all the flavors of pecan pie (but hopefully a lot less sugar/carbs).
Taylor Kiser says
OHHH yum! If you do, let me have that recipe! Haha!
Jennifer K says
Yum! Reminiscent of pecan pie. I was craving something sweet, because I am pregnant and it’s the holidays. We didn’t have this pecan flour or coconut flour on hand, so trying with almond flour and toasted walnuts, regular flour an egg and some raw agave along with your recipe. If I had this Amoretti flour on hand I would make your cookies as is (I do love coconut flour, we just ran out) and probably a pecan pie crust with pumpkin filling.
Taylor Kiser says
Sounds delish!! I am glad you liked your version! 🙂