Cookie season is here and this easy Pecan and Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe is about to steal the show at your cookie exchange. Chewy Chocolate chips combine with brown sugar, butter and pecans for a deliciously indulgent cookie.
Quick Look: Pecan and Chocolate Chip Cookies
- ⏱ Prep Time: 5 minutes
- 🔥 Cook Time: 10 minutes
- 🌬️ Cooling Time: 5 minutes
- ⏳ Total Time: 20 minutes
- 🍪 Serving: About 15 cookies
- ⚡ Calories: 222 calories per cookie
- 🌰 Flavor Profile: deep vanilla and brown sugar with a nutty finish
- 👌 Difficulty: Easy, they look perfect and taste even better
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I love December because it means more family time while enjoying the holidays. These cold days always have my kitchen filled with the smell of baked cookies. Making a fresh batch of pecan cookies was something I did while the kids were little. Now, they know the recipe by heart and are always finding fun new ways to make their chocolate chip pecan cookies.
If pecan chocolate chip cookies are on your Christmas list this year, you should also think about making Walnut Butter Cookies with Apples and my Salted Caramel Cookies Sandwiches.
If you have picky eaters, have no fear, I have just the solution for you. My Christmas Cookie Sandwiches are nut free and known to steal the show at every cookie exchange. Soft, Chewy Chocolate Chipless Cookies are also a good option and you likely have all the ingredients in the pantry already.
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Why You Will Love This Recipe
- It Uses Basic Ingredients: All you need are basic baking staples to make these cookies.
- It's So Easy: All you have to do is mix, scoop, bake, and enjoy the soft, chewy cookies!
- Soft, Chewy Texture: These cookies have that classic texture we all love.
- Versatile: Feel free to mix it up by using sweet chocolate chips, brown butter, dried fruit or even coconut like my Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies.
- A Great Make-Ahead Option: These cookies are freezer-friendly, making it easy to prepare extra for future use.
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"The pecans are a perfect way to take a chocolate chip cookie and make it fancy! I made these for my cookie exchange and they were a hit!"
- Kelly
Key Ingredients
Check out the recipe card at the bottom of the page for a full list of ingredients and their exact amounts.
- Gluten Free Flour: Gluten free flour produces cookies that are just as soft and tender as traditional flour. Use a high-quality gluten free flour, such as Bob's Red Mill or King Arthur, for the best texture and flavor.
- Sugar: Almost every cookie dough should use a mix of granulated sugar and dark or light brown sugar. Brown sugar helps add moisture, ensuring your cookies are soft and chewy.
- Unsalted Butter: The fat in butter keeps the cookies tender and helps them rise. Use unsalted butter for full control of your cookies' flavor.
- Vanilla Extract: Vanilla extract is key to the flavor of these cookies. These cookies lean heavily into the rich flavor of vanilla because they lack chocolate chips.
- Salt: Salt is a key component to baking, balancing the other sweet flavors in your recipes.
Variations
- Flour: Feel free to use all-purpose flour in the same amount for this pecan cookie recipe.
- Brown Butter: Brown butter pecan cookies are truly one of a kind. If you have the extra time it is worth it. These are often called old fashioned pecan and chocolate chip cookies.
- Mix-Ins: This dough is perfect for all your favorite mix-ins, making tasty cookies like gluten-free Oreo cookies, pretzel chocolate chip cookies, or just simply adding in extra chocolate chips.
- Other Nut Flavors: For deeper vanilla flavor, use almond extract. Also think about pecan extract to give it a pecan pie taste!
How To Make Chocolate Chip and Pecan Cookies
Step 1. Mix your wet Ingredients. In a mixer, combine the room temperature, butter, corn syrup, brown sugar, and granulated sugar. Mix on medium until smooth. Next, add the egg and vanilla bean paste and mix for 30 seconds. Then mix in flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
Step 3. Mix them together. Gently fold in the dry ingredients and mix with a rubber spatula until fully combined.Next, add in the chocolate chips and pecans and mix with a rubber spatula.
Step 4. Scoop your cookies. Using a 2 inch cookie scoop, place the dough balls onto the prepared pan leaving about 1 inch in between each cookie. Place any additional pecans or chocolate chips on top of the cookie dough.
Step 5. Bake the cookies. Bake in the oven for 9 to 11 minutes, until the edges are slightly brown. Once done, put them on a wire cooling rack to rest. Enjoy!
Expert Tips
- Refrigerate your dough: Chilling allows the flour to fully hydrate and the sugars to meld, creating deeper, richer flavor.
- Measure you flour: gluten-free flours are not all the same. Each one has a different weight to equal 1 cup. Make sure you use a food scale to be precise when making pecan chocolate chip with pecan cookies.
- Use a cook scoop: This will ensure your butter pecan chocolate cookies are all the same size. It also helps keep your hands clean!
- Perfectly Round Cookies: For pretty, perfectly round cookies, place a large cup over each cookie when removed from the oven, then use a circular, swirling motion to round the edges.
- Use Parchment Paper: Line your baking sheet with parchment paper for easy cleanup.
Pecan and Chocolate Chip Cookies FAQs
This is most likely because you did not chill your dough first. Chilling the dough after you make it ensures these turn out to be the perfectly chewy chocolate chip pecan cookies.
Both are great options. I use pecans because they are sweeter and have a buttery flavor. Walnuts are also great but known to have more of a crunch and are sometimes considered more bitter.
There could be a number of reasons why your cookies came out dense. First, I would make sure you are measuring your flour on a food scale so it is precise. Second, you can use more brown sugar and less white sugar. The moisture in brown sugar will help correct the texture.
Yes! You I made this recipe gluten-free, but you can use regular flour if you do not have a gluten allergy! All of my recipes can be adjusted to be full gluten as well.
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📖 Recipe
Pecan and Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 ⅓ cups Gluten Free 1:1 Flour or traditional flour if no gluten allergy
- ¼ cup sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg room temp
- 10 tablespoon butter room temp
- 2 teaspoon light corn syrup
- 2 teaspoon Vanilla Bean paste or 3 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¾ cup Chocolate Chips
- ½ cup pecans crushed
Instructions
- Mix your dry Ingredients. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside.
- Mix your wet Ingredients. In a mixer, combine the room temperature, butter, corn syrup, brown sugar, and granulated sugar. With the paddle attachment, mix on medium until well combined, about one minute. Next, add the egg and vanilla bean paste and mix for 30 seconds.
- Mix them together. Gently fold in the dry ingredients and mix with a rubber spatula until fully combined.Next, add in the chocolate chips and pecans and mix with a rubber spatula.
- Scoop your cookies. Using a 2 inch cookie scoop, place the dough balls onto the prepared pan leaving about 1 inch in between each cookie. Place any additional pecans or chocolate chips on top of the cookie dough.
- Bake the cookies. Bake in the oven for 9 to 11 minutes, until the edges are slightly brown. Once done, put them on a wire cooling rack to rest. Enjoy!
Notes
- Let the cookies cool, then store them in an airtight container for up to 5 days at room temperature.
- Unused dough can be pre measured out and stored in the freezer. When you are ready you can put the frozen dough strait on a cookie sheet and bake!
- Always use room-temperature eggs and butter to prevent clumping.
- Over-mixing the dough can make the cookies tough and dry. This is true for both wheat flour and gluten free flour.
- So not over bake the cookies to prevent hardening. Remove from the oven just as the edges start to brown.
Kelly says
The pecans are a perfect way to take a chocolate chip cookie and make it fancy! I made these for my cookie exchange and they were a hit!
Nicole Kendrick says
Thank you, Kelly! So glad you had a successful cookie exchange!