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Slice and Bake Pecan Cookies with Cinnamon

April 7, 2010 by Sarah Trivuncic 20 Comments

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Pecan freeze and bake cookies on a wire cooling rack.

These are lazy cookies.  True, they were quite easy to make but I am doing a lazy post as there are a couple of bumper posts in the pipeline and I need to save my energy!  I’m really excited about the posts I have coming up and hope that you enjoy reading them as much I enjoyed doing the stuff and taking the pictures.


It may astound you to hear that between February half term and two weeks ago I barely cooked a sausage.  I don’t mean sausages literally, I mean that I didn’t do an awful lot of cooking and even less that was blog-worthy. There were a lot of microwave pouches of rice being thrown around my house and I know you don’t want to see those. Happily these cookies kick started me getting back into a-cooking and a-blogging. Since then I managed to make three flavours of cookie, caught Ottolenghi fever, got out the house and took oodles of pictures with my new camera and then settled down to make some Rachel Allen goodies.


So this holiday, I have been a lot better prepared having loads of things ready to blog about whilst still getting out and having fun with Ted. You wouldn’t believe where I took him today but it will amaze and amuse you when I get around to posting it (a lofty promise, yes, but I am confident it will). Meanwhile, we have biscuits, cookies, whatever you want to call them.


My dad is visiting this week. He brought with him a copy of “A Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down” that I’d left in the Midlands. It is a tome to all things tea and biscuit related. The writers started with a blog that you can read here.

This week I have also been exchanging tweets with Alison at Deer Baby. I won’t go into what we were tweeting about but she started with “Sorry to bang on about my working at The Beeb but..” and I replied “Bang on as much as you like, it’s way more exciting than any tales I might tell of TUC conferences.”


Seriously, I am not about to bore you with any tales from the TUC conferences which featured heavily in my former working life.  But I can tell you that the high point for me, of any visit to TUC Congress House was the BISCUITS. I wish I could eulogise about them with the efficacy of ANCOTAASD (or Alison at Deer Baby for that matter). I’ve never found the same biscuits in the shops. They were thick discs that you really had to bite into. I don’t drink tea or coffee so cannot comment on their dip-ability but can tell you they were served in several varieties; a chocolate version, a buttery version that left pleasing stains on doileys, a version with chewy bits of dried cherry and they invariably left you with a lot of crumbs in your lap. Better than that, they almost made debates by irate postal workers’ union members bearable.


These slice and bake cookies from Australian Women’s Weekly remind me of them a lot (the biscuits, not the irate postal workers), they have the same substance to them.  I love that you can keep the dough in the fridge for a week until you are ready to bake them, or even freeze it.  I can bake a dozen biscuits fresh if a couple of friends are coming round. This, rather like fresh muffins, gets met with far more appreciation than it deserves. But you might want to keep that to yourself.

Pecan and Cinnamon Slice and Bake Cookies
Adapted from Australian Women’s Weekly “The Complete Book of Cupcakes, Cheesecakes and Cookies” (I would give you a link but bizarrely, Amazon don’t appear to stock it)
Makes approx 48 cookies
 
Ingredients:
250g butter, softened
200g icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
300g plain flour
75g rice flour
50g cornflour
1 tsp ground cinnamon
120g chopped pecans
2 tbsp milk (you may need slightly more)
A little extra sugar for sprinkling (optional)
 
Method:
1. Using the food processor, mix the butter, icing sugar and vanilla extract until light and fluffy.  Add the sifted flours and cinnamon and pulse until the mixture resembles bread crumbs.
2. Tip into a large bowl and spoon over the milk and bring the breadcrumb mixture together into a ball as if making shortcrust pastry.
3. Divide into 2-3 balls to make the mixture easier to manage. Knead the balls of dough on a floured surface until smooth then roll into logs around 6-7cm in diameter.  Wrap each log with parchment paper and place in a freezer bag in the fridge for about 1 hour until firm.
4. Meanwhile pre-heat the oven to 160c and line a couple of baking trays with parchment paper.
5. When the logs have firmed up, unwrap them and using a sharp knife cut into slices 1cm thick.  Place about 3cm apart on the baking trays and bake for around 18-20 minutes until just golden.  Cool on wire racks.
 
For an alternative pecan recipe I recommend Jeanne’s tipsy tart or Michelle’s peanut butter and pecan caramel brownies. 

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Sarah Trivuncic has published recipes, restaurant and travel reviews on Maison Cupcake since 2009. She lives in Walthamstow, East London with her husband and teenager.
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Comments

  1. ScottCanCook says

    April 7, 2010 at 11:43 pm

    I love slice and bake cookies. I always have a log in the freezer for cookies a'la minute.

    These look delish!

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  2. Rambling Tart says

    April 8, 2010 at 12:50 am

    These look like perfect nibbles with a cup of tea. Sure wish I had one right now!! 🙂

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  3. Kat says

    April 8, 2010 at 2:38 am

    Pecans and cinnamon. Yummy!

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  4. Stephanie Savors the Moment says

    April 8, 2010 at 3:08 am

    Those Cookies look soooo delicious and comforting! I wish I could have one (or five) right now:) Look forward to your upcoming posts.

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  5. Maria says

    April 8, 2010 at 3:10 am

    Great cookie recipe here!

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  6. Barbara Bakes says

    April 8, 2010 at 5:30 am

    I love the idea of having yummy cookie dough in the fridge/freezer ready to bake. Now I'm really curious about your upcoming posts!

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  7. Poires au Chocolat says

    April 8, 2010 at 7:12 am

    Ooh they look yummy! I don't think I've ever made slice and bake cookies, I'll have to give it a whirl.

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  8. Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

    April 8, 2010 at 7:37 am

    @scottcancook Cookies a la minute!!! Love it!
    @ramblingtart Arr yes, I wish I could post one
    @kat Glad you think so!
    @stephanie Five? You're worse than me!!
    @maria Thanks!
    @barbara I'm working on one of them now…
    @poiresauchocolat You must, they are so much easier than cutting out with cookie cutters

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  9. Heavenly Housewife says

    April 8, 2010 at 9:10 am

    For "lazy cookies" they sure look great. Looking forward to your upcoming posts!
    *kisses* HH

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  10. Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella says

    April 8, 2010 at 9:32 am

    They are so pretty Sarah! I can't believe they are lazy cookies at all-they look like cookies that shops sell! 😛

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  11. MaryMoh says

    April 8, 2010 at 9:38 am

    Looks crunchy and delicious. I love it simple and easy to make.

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  12. George@CulinaryTravels says

    April 8, 2010 at 1:32 pm

    They look perfect, certainly don't look lazy at all.

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  13. tasteofbeirut says

    April 8, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    They may be lazy but they look very elegant and perfect with a cup of tea don't you think?

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  14. deer baby says

    April 8, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    Hey thanks for the link. TUC conferences make me think of those TUC biscuits in a yellow and blue packet. In fact I've just googled what TUC stands for (not trade union conference – I know that) and it's The Unique Cracker. Never knew.
    I'm sure they weren't that boring – and at least you had nice biscuits. Biscuits at the Beeb (had to get that in) were banned. Can't be seen to be spending the licence fee payers money now on biscuits can we?

    Glad to know you don't drink tea either. I hate the stuff. I don't drink tea and my husband doesn't drink coffee. We're like Jack Sprat and his wife.

    I need something lazy to eat. And pecan nuts are great in anything.These look yummy. Looking forward to your upcoming posts!

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  15. My Carolina Kitchen says

    April 8, 2010 at 7:53 pm

    I've been overdoing it a big, so lazy sounds perfect. So do your cookies. Slice and bake cookies are great.
    Sam

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  16. Gourmet Chick says

    April 8, 2010 at 9:21 pm

    For lazy cookies these look great – those Australian womens weekly cookbooks are brilliant

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  17. diva says

    April 8, 2010 at 10:42 pm

    U won't believe it, as lazy as I am, i have never made slice and bake cookies. It's either drop cookies (the laziest of em all, gah!) and cut out sugar cookies. One day, these will be made. I love that thickly sliced look of them cookies. Gorgeous! x

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  18. Su-yin says

    April 8, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    I love lazy anything. 🙂 These look yum, and like Davina I've never actually made slice and bake cookies!

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  19. Megan says

    April 9, 2010 at 2:12 am

    I love cinnamon and I bet these are wonderful. I wish I could keep dough like this in the freezer but I'll just slice it and eat it frozen. But I like to make slice and bake cookies for when we go camping in our trailer. Bookmarked for just that occasion!

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  20. Noshings/Nicole says

    November 7, 2010 at 1:27 am

    I know its a little late here, but those are gorgeous!
    must make some this weekend to go with some tea =)

    Reply

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