Pecan Praline Cookies With Brown Sugar Frosting Recipe 415 Recipes

PECAN PRALINE COOKIES WITH BROWN SUGAR FROSTING RECIPE - (4.1/5)

Steps:

• COOKIES: In a large mixing bowl, beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer. Gradually add sugars, mixing well. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, soda and salt. Gradually add the dry mixture to the creamed mixture, stirring after each addition. Stir in the chopped pecans. Chill dough for 30 minutes. When chilled, remove from the refrigerator. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place the balls of dough on un-greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350°F for 10 - 12 minutes. Cool on wire racks. When cool, spread Brown Sugar Frosting over the tops of the cookies. Top each with a pecan half before the icing sets. BROWN SUGAR FROSTING: Combine brown sugar and half & half in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil. Boil 4 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in butter. Add 1½ cups powdered sugar. Beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Add a little more powdered sugar, if needed, to achieve a desired spreading consistency.

PECAN PRALINES

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients except the pecans in a heavy saucepan. Over medium heat stir mixture until it comes to a boil. Turn heat down to medium-low and continue to stir. Spoon mixture up on sides of pan to melt any sugar that hasn't melted.
• Cook until mixture reaches 238 to 241 degrees F on a candy thermometer or soft ball stage. Stir in the pecans. Remove from heat. Stir until the mixture begins to thicken and becomes creamy and cloudy. Drop onto parchment paper, buttered pan or buttered marble slab, using a spoon or ice cream scoop. Let cool.
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SOUTHERN PECAN PRALINE ICING RECIPE - (4.3/5)

Steps:

• CAKE: Grease and flour three nine-inch round cake pans and preheat oven to 350°F. Cream the butter or margarine with both Granulated sugar and light brown sugar until very light and fluffy, then add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift the flour with the baking powder, baking soda and salt and add to the batter alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the dry mixture. Stir in the vanilla extract. Divide batter evenly among the prepared pans and bake in the center of the preheated oven for twenty-five to thirty minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center of the layers comes out clean. Cool layers in their pans over a rack for ten minutes, then loosen and turn out layers directly onto racks for cooling. Cool layers thoroughly before icing (recipe follows). Recipe yields a nine-inch, three-layer cake. ICING: Melt the butter or margarine in a large saucepan over medium heat. Remove from heat, then stir in Granulated Sugar and Imperial Light Brown Sugar. (Sugars will not dissolve). In a separate bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the evaporated milk until smooth, then whisk this mixture into the saucepan with the sugar mixture. Return saucepan to a medium heat setting and cook, whisking constantly, until mixture is thick, shiny and caramel-like, about fifteen to twenty minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract and pecans. Cool icing to a good spreading consistency (about thirty minutes), then spread evenly between cooled cake layers and over the top and sides of the cake. Recipe yields icing for a nine-inch, three-layer cake.

PECAN PRALINE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*F.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugar until fluffy.
• Blend in the egg and vanilla.
• In another bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture, stirring just until combined.
• Shape Tbsp.
• of dough into balls; space 2" apart on lightly greased or parchment paper-lined cookie sheets.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until lightly browned; cool on the sheets for 10 minutes, then transfer cookies to wire racks and cool completely.
• Meanwhile, make the icing: In a small saucepan over medium heat, mix the brown sugar and heavy cream; bring to a boil.
• Cook and stir for 2 minutes; remove pan from heat and stir in the powdered sugar, mixing until smooth.
• Dip the bottoms of the pecans into the icing and place 2 on each cookie; drizzle tops with more icing.

FROSTED BROWN SUGAR PECAN COOKIES

Steps:

• Beat butter at medium speed until creay,gradually add sugars,mixing well.
• Add egg and vanilla,beat well.
• Combine flour,soda and salt,gradually add to creamed mixture,mixing after each addition.
• Stir in Chopped pecans.
• Cover and chill for 30 minutes.
• Shape dough into 1 inch balls,place on ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake at 350 for 10-12 mintes.
• Let cool on wire racks and spread frosting over top.
• FROSTING-----.
• Combine brown sugar and half and half in a saucepan.
• Cook over medim heat,stirring constantly until mixture comes to a boil,boil 4 minutes.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in butter.
• Add 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar and beat at medium speed until smooth.
• Gradually add nough remaning powdered sugar to make desired spreding consistency.