Any Home Bakers Here?

[N F C]

I love nuts! Nuts on just about anything and just about any kind of nut

 

[ronott1]

Made this new cookie recipe a couple days ago. Guess DH liked them, they're gone (I'll admit, I had a couple )!

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Butter Pecan Cookies

For the buttered pecans:
1 1/2 Cup pecan pieces, finely chopped
1 1/2 Tab unsalted butter

For the cookie dough:
2 1/4 Cups AP flour
2 1/2 Tab cornstarch
1 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
2 sticks (8 oz) unsalted butter, melted until browned (step #3 below)
1 Cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 Cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs, room temperature
pecan halves, for decorating

1. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add in the chopped pecans and cook, stirring occasionally, for 4-5 minutes, or until lightly toasted. Set aside until needed.

2. In a large bowl, combine flour, cornstarch, salt, cinnamon, baking soda; whisk to combine and set aside.

3. Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat; continue cooking, stirring occasionally until golden brown. Allow to cool a bit so when you add the eggs, you don't cook them! Remove pan from heat and pour butter into a large heatproof mixing bowl. Add in both sugars and mix well. Add in vanilla. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating until eggs are just combined.

4. Fold in dry ingredients, stirring just until combined. Fold in the buttered pecans.

5. Preheat oven to 375*. On a parchment paper lined baking sheet, place tablespoon sized scooped balls of dough. Lightly flatten and press a pecan half on top. Bake in the preheated oven 8-9 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on the pan for 15 minutes, then carefully transfer to a cooling rack.

Nice Cookies!

 

[R2elk]

I love nuts! Nuts on just about anything and just about any kind of nut

Especially macadamia nuts.

 

[N F C]

Especially macadamia nuts.

Those are good! So are pecans, walnuts (black and English both), pistachios, cashews, almonds....

Maybe I'm part squirrel and just never tied that to my love of nuts

 

[BullChick]

Those are good! So are pecans, walnuts (black and English both), pistachios, cashews, almonds....

Maybe I'm part squirrel and just never tied that to my love of nuts

The hunters said they have an English walnut and some other kind of nut tree in their yard. I can’t remember which is supposed to be producing next year.

 

[ronott1]

The hunters said they have an English walnut and some other kind of nut tree in their yard. I can’t remember which is supposed to be producing next year.

English Walnuts are good for baking and easy to harvest and get out of their shells compared to black walnuts

 

[N F C]

English Walnuts are good for baking and easy to harvest and get out of their shells compared to black walnuts

Black walnuts in baking are delicious too! But much harder to pick out of the shells.

When I was growing up, every fall Mom & Dad would go pick up gunny sacks full of black walnuts. The 3 of us kids had to pick them all, we'd have contests to see who could pick the most during a 60 minute tv show. A lot of tedious work, but wow, so flavorful! Mom used to put them in homemade fudge, divinity, caramels and quick breads. (yeah, we picked a LOT of black walnuts)

 

[ronott1]

Black walnuts in baking are delicious too! But much harder to pick out of the shells.

When I was growing up, every fall Mom & Dad would go pick up gunny sacks full of black walnuts. The 3 of us kids had to pick them all, we'd have contests to see who could pick the most during a 60 minute tv show. A lot of tedious work, but wow, so flavorful! Mom used to put them in homemade fudge, divinity, caramels and quick breads. (yeah, we picked a LOT of black walnuts)

We picked black walnuts off of the side of the road and sold them.

We had access to English Walnuts here so did not want to do the work for black walnuts

 

[R2elk]

Black walnuts in baking are delicious too! But much harder to pick out of the shells.

When I was growing up, every fall Mom & Dad would go pick up gunny sacks full of black walnuts. The 3 of us kids had to pick them all, we'd have contests to see who could pick the most during a 60 minute tv show. A lot of tedious work, but wow, so flavorful! Mom used to put them in homemade fudge, divinity, caramels and quick breads. (yeah, we picked a LOT of black walnuts)

The black walnuts are really good in molasses cookies.

 

[N F C]

The black walnuts are really good in molasses cookies.

I'm sure!