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Eggless Butter Pecan Cookies

August 3rd, 2008 Madhuram Posted in Cookies |  Print This Recipe | 27 Comments »

I found this recipe in Taste of Home magazine. This recipe was submitted by one of its readers. I’m so glad that I found this recipe because these cookies are absolutely delicious. It had the “melt in your mouth” texture, which reminded me of the butter biscuits we get in bakery shops in India. I would say that these are the best cookies I have baked so far. It’s not too sweet and it also has a hint of saltiness, which is the perfect combination. Also it’s so easy to put together.

• Ingredients
• Step-By-Step Procedure
• My Notes

Ingredients

Butter, softened – 3/4 cup (I used 1.5 stick Smart Balance 50/50 Unsalted Butter Blend)

Instant Butterscotch Pudding Mix – 1 package, 3.4oz (I used Jello Brand Instant Pudding and Pie Mix)

All purpose flour – 1.25 cups

Pecans, chopped – 1/2 cup

Yield: 24 cookies

Step-By-Step Procedure >>

Step-By-Step Procedure(Click on the thumbnails for a bigger view)
1. Preheat oven at 375F for 15 minutes.
2. In a small mixing bowl, cream butter and pudding mix until smooth. I used a hand held electric mixer.
3. Gradually beat in flour.

4. Fold in pecans.
5. Grease a tablespoon with non stick cooking spray.
6. Take a tablespoonful of dough and drop it on the baking sheet 2 inch apart.
7. Flatten the dough using your fingers.

8. Bake it for 10-13 minutes or until light golden brown. Mine were perfectly done at 11 minutes.
9. Remove it from the oven and let it cool on the baking sheet itself for 5 minutes.
10. Then transfer it to a wire cooling rack and let it cool completely before storing it in an airtight container.

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My Notes

1. Grease 2 baking/cookie sheets using the butter wrapper itself. This way the leftover butter on the wrapper is not wasted.

2. The recipe does not need sugar. The cookies gets its sweetness from the sugar in the pudding mix. Once I prepared the dough, I tasted it and felt that it was not sweet enough. I was so tempted to add some sugar. But I’m really happy that I did not do it, because the cookies tasted perfect.

3. The above measurement yields exactly 2 dozen cookies. I used 2 large baking sheets for each dozen and baked it one batch at a time. You can also bake both at the same time with one sheet on the middle rack and the other one on the bottom rack. If you decide to bake both batches at the same time, be sure to switch the baking sheets half way through. That is, once it’s baked for 5 minutes, move the top rack sheet to the bottom and the bottom rack sheet to the top to ensure even baking.

4. Using the same method, I’m also thinking of making Pistachio cookies using instant pistachio pudding mix and chopped pistachios instead of pecans.

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Tags: all purpose flour, butter, butterscotch, instant pudding mix, pecans

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27 Responses to “Eggless Butter Pecan Cookies”

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1. 10
   SPillay Says:
   August 4th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

   Yum!!! I love cookies!!!

2. 9
   sangeeth Says:
   August 4th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

   drooling here girl….u hav a lot of my favs in ur blog…great going!

3. 8
   suganya Says:
   August 4th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

   Hi…
   This is very good recipe. One of my fried was asking eggless cookie recipe…. Love to forward this recipe to her. Looks prefect.

4. 7
   jayasree Says:
   August 3rd, 2008 at 11:04 pm

   Yummy cookies. Looks very crisp… Good detailed pics.

5. 6
   Cham Says:
   August 3rd, 2008 at 8:48 pm

   Delicious cookies and looks really buttery

6. 5
   Smitha Says:
   August 3rd, 2008 at 5:24 pm

   Looks delicious. Will defenitely try this one.

7. 4
   DivyA Vikram Says:
   August 3rd, 2008 at 4:31 pm

   Looks delicious indeed..

8. 3
   Bharti Says:
   August 3rd, 2008 at 11:25 am

   Oh those look so decadent. What is it with desis and the butterscotch flavor? Almost everyone I know loves that flavor. Will try these guys out.

9. 2
   G.Pavani Says:
   August 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 am

   Hi Madurima

   Happy Friendship Day

   Pics are excellent,the way u presented the blog is very good.I have a microwave but i dnt known how to make cookies.After seeing this u made easy for me to do.Thank u very much for such a nice recipe.

   Bu the way i am G.pavani recently added to Taste Of India.
   Myblogis :www.fooddamaka.blogspot.com

10. 1
    Jujubs Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 7:04 am

    Hello Madhuram,
    I came across your page from blog catalog sometime back and have been visiting your site often. You have got a marvelous blog with well presented recipes.pecan cookies looks really yum..!
    Jujubs

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