Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

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These Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies are the perfect go-to cookies to make for all of your cookie exchanges and parties for the holidays!  It’s hard to resist these delicious, buttery pecan cookies, generously loaded with crunchy pecans and chocolate chips, with their crisp edges and soft and chewy centers.

More cookie recipes?  Like these Best-Ever White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies and these Soft Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies?  All delectable!

Why Everyone Will Love These Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

• So, let me introduce you to these amazing Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies!  These awesome, golden buttery pecan cookies have lots of chopped pecan bits and chocolate chips in every bite.  For an extra special touch, we even drizzled melted Ghirardelli milk chocolate drizzles on top.
• With the perfect balance of buttery richness and nutty crunchy texture, these cookies are sure to become a new favorite!
• Feel free to add some sprinkles or a a little sea salt for some extra fun! Even some butterscotch or caramel chips added in with the chocolate chips would really take the flavors up a notch!
• Easy to make, no chill cookie recipe! So you can have soft, warm melty cookies in your paws in now time!
• Taste super heavenly! Perfect for any event, holidays and gifting, because who wouldn’t want a freshly batch of baked cookies like these!

About Nielsen-Massey’s Coffee Extract

• To give these cookies a extra, rich enhanced coffee flavor, I added in some Nielsen Massey Coffee Extract!  If you love the flavor of coffee, you will love using Nielsen-Massey Pure Coffee Extract in place of vanilla extract some of the time when you’re baking. IMO, it pairs well with anything that has chocolate in my book!
• The rich, freshly brewed flavor of the coffee extract is achieved through their careful distillation of premium coffee beans and enhances frozen desserts, baked goods and cocoa as well as savory dishes, like soups, gravies, tomato sauces and salsas.
• Plus, this concentrated extract is easier for home cooks to keep on hand, unlike ground coffee or beans, which rapidly lose their flavor.
• This product is Kosher and Gluten-Free Certified as well as All-Natural, Allergen-Free and GMO-Free.
• We love it!  It’s just fun to change things up from vanilla extract sometime, ya know?

Ingredients You Need

Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

• unsalted butter, cold from fridge or room temperature, do not use softened butter
• dark or light brown sugar, packed
• granulated sugar
• eggs
• coffee extract or vanilla extract
• all-purpose flour, measured correctly
• baking soda
• salt
• pecans chopped fine
• optional: caramel chips or salted caramel chips if you like the pecan, caramel and chocolate ‘turtles’ vibe
• semi-sweet chocolate chips I use Ghirardelli mini

Chocolate Drizzle

• milk chocolate chips, I use Ghirardelli or semi-sweet can be used
• optional: sea salt, sprinkles

Instructions How to Make Butter Pecan Cookies

How to Make Butter Pecan Cookies

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or spray with non-stick spray, or you can use silicone mats.
2. Using an electric mixer, in a large bowl, cream sugars and butter together until mixed well.
3. Add coffee or vanilla extract and eggs and mix well.
4. Add in baking soda and salt into the wet ingredients and mix together.  Then add in the flour and mix until just incorporated.
5. Fold in the chocolate chips and chopped pecan together. (dough will be stiff).
6. Using tablespoon, medium or large cookie scoop, drop cookie dough balls about 2 inches apart onto cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden light brown for 1 tablespoon cookies, 13-15 for (2 tablespoon, medium cookies, 16-18 minutes for ¼ cup large cookies.
7. Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer the cookies to a cooling rack to cool completely.

Chocolate Drizzle

1. If you want some chocolate drizzle on tops of cookies, just melt milk, semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips in the microwave in 30 second increments, stirring in between until melted. Place melted chocolate in a ziplock or pastry bag and snip small corner in the end of the bag and drizzle chocolate on tops of cookies.

Baking Tips

• Butter Tips: To avoid flat cookies: Be sure your butter is not melted or even softened. You can even use it straight from the fridge.
• Flour Tips: Measure flour correctly and don’t over-mix the cookie batter especially after the flour is added and add it gradually when you’re adding it.
• Make sure your baking soda is not expired and you use the best quality ingredients whenever possible!

Storing & Freezing Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

• Cookies stay fresh when kept in a sealed container at room temperature for 3 – 4 days, or can be frozen for up to two months.

More Variations

• Make browned butter pecan chocolate chip cookies easily replacing the butter with How to Make Perfect Brown Butter!  That will really take these to the next universe!  Just make sure you’re brown butter if refrigerated and cold to use in the recipe.
• Besides chocolate chips, or the other chips we’ve suggested, you might even like chocolate chunks of milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or white chocolate.  Oh yeah!  Who can resist any of them?
• Add some toffee bits, pistachios, walnuts or even honey or salted peanuts, if you want something other than pecans.

These chocolate chip butter pecan cookies are the fo-shizzle!  These are the true definition of rich, decadent cookies that everyone will love for the holidays for sure.

More Dessert Love!

• Turtle Caramel Truffle Brownies
• Pecan Pie M&M Blondies
• Homemade Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies
• Caramel Pecan Chocolate Oat Bars
• Salted Caramel Pretzel & Peanut Dark Chocolate Brownies
• Ultimate Gooey Brownies
• Salted Chocolate & Caramel Pecan Turtle Fudge
• Pumpkin Butter Pecan Poke Cake
• Ultimate Strawberry Cheesecake Pudding Filled Cupcakes
• Starbucks Gingerbread Loaf

Perfect Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

KIm Lange

These mouth-watering cookies are buttery, chewy, thick and have lots of chocolate chips and chopped pecans! Perfect for the holidays!

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Servings 36 Small Cookies

Calories

Ingredients

  

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• 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature or cold from fridge
• 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
• ¾ cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs room temperature
• 2 teaspoons coffee extract or vanilla extract
• 3 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 ½ cups pecans chopped & whole, reserve some for tops of cookies
• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips plus more for tops if desired
• Optional: 1 cup caramel chips or salted caramel chips

Chocolate Drizzle

• ½ cup milk chocolate chips or semi sweet chocolate chips I use Ghirardelli
• Optional: Sprinkle of Sea Salt or Sprinkles

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 350°F and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or spray with non-stick spray.
• Using mixer, cream sugars and butter together until mixed well. 
• Add extract and eggs and mix well.
• Add in baking soda and salt and mix together.  Then add in the flour and mix until incorporated well without overmixing.
• Mix in the chocolate chips and chopped pecan together. (dough will be stiff).
• Using tablespoon,  medium or large cookie scoop, drop dough about 2 inches apart onto cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden light brown for 1 tablespoon cookies, 13-15 for (2 tablespoon, medium cookies, 16-18 minutes for ¼ cup large cookies.
• Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely.

Notes

Chocolate Drizzle: If you want some chocolate drizzle on tops of cookies, just melt chocolate chips in the microwave in 30 second increments, stirring in between until melted. Place melted chocolate in a ziplock or pastry bag and snip small corner in the end of the bag and drizzle chocolate on tops of cookies.

Keyword butter pecan, caramel, cookies, milk chocolate, pecan, sea salt, turtle desserts

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