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How To Make Praline Cookies
Praline cookies are a buttery sweet treat that takes inspiration from a childhood candy and that are perfect for gifting on the holidays.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1cupall-purpose flour
- 1½tspbaking powder
- ½tspsalt
- 8tbspunsalted butter
- 2½cuplight-brown sugar
- 1largeegg
- 1tsppure vanilla extract
- ½cupheavy cream
- 1cupconfectioners’ sugar,sifted
- 1cuppecan halves
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
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In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and 1½ cups light-brown sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy.
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Add egg and vanilla. Beat until fully combined. Add dry ingredients, and beat on low speed until combined. Drop batter in rounded teaspoons onto ungreased baking sheets about 2 inches apart.
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Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until firm and barely golden. Transfer pan to a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes, then transfer cookies from pan to wire rack.
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In a small saucepan, combine remaining 1 cup light-brown sugar and cream. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
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Add confectioners’ sugar, and whisk until smooth. (If frosting thickens, thin with cream.) Add pecan pieces.
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Place cookies on a cooling rack over a lined baking pan. Spoon about half a teaspoon praline mixture onto each cookie.
Nutrition
- Calories: 357.96kcal
- Fat: 17.78g
- Saturated Fat: 7.80g
- Trans Fat: 0.31g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 6.58g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.33g
- Carbohydrates: 49.20g
- Fiber: 1.07g
- Sugar: 39.79g
- Protein: 2.68g
- Cholesterol: 49.44mg
- Sodium: 161.90mg
- Calcium: 86.00mg
- Potassium: 101.37mg
- Iron: 1.06mg
- Vitamin A: 112.42µg
- Vitamin C: 0.15mg
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