Ingredients

The following ingredients have 4 Servings
  • 2 sticks unsalted butter (softened)
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 egg 
  • 1 cup finely chopped pecans
  • Toasted pecans
  • 1 ounce milk
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Instruction

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Cream butter and sugar in mixer.
  • Mix in flour, salt, cinnamon, vanilla, and egg.
  • Stir in nuts.
  • Working in batches, scoop out tablespoon-sized amounts of dough and roll into balls between your hands.
  • Transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet, spacing 2-inches apart.
  • Make indentation in each cookie with thumb. 
  • Bake for 6 minutes. Re-indent cookies if needed with a wooden spoon and continue to bake for an additional 12 to 16 minutes until bottoms are golden brown.
  • Cool for 2 minutes and then remove to wire rack to finish cooling.
  • When cookies have cooled enough to be easily handled, carefully spoon caramel icing into the center of each, and place a single pecan in the center of each.