Brown Butter Glazed Pecan Crescent Cookies | One of the most popular cookies is the PECAN CRESCENT COOKIES.  Turn a GREAT cookie into a FANTASTIC cookie and dip the cookie in brown butter glaze!  The cookie is packed with pecan with a light sweet taste adding brown butter glaze gives these cookies another layer of nutty flavor and is phenomenal!

Pack up a batch for your next barbecue or road trip.  I’m sure Grandma would be thrilled if you showed up with a batch of these melt in your mouth Brown Butter Glazed Pecan Crescent Cookies.  Don’t forget about the camping trip!

HOW TO MAKE BROWN BUTTER (link)

If you’ve never tried brown butter you are in for a very pleasant surprise.  You can transform recipes and do wonders with a jar of boiled butter.  That’s essentially what brown butter is. A few sticks of butter gently boiled until it turns a wonderful brown color and with that, a delicious nutty flavor.  Add it to frosting (BROWN BUTTER FROSTING) ,drizzle it over BRUSSELS SPROUTS or one of my favorites transform syrup into BROWN BUTTER APPLE CIDER SYRUP you’re pancakes will never be the same.

Also try the PECAN CRESCENT COOKIES!

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Brown Butter Glazed Pecan Crescent Cookies

Yield: Makes 30 Cookies

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Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup ground pecans
• 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract

For the Brown Butter Glaze:

• 1/4 cup brown butter
• 2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 3 tablespoons water

Instructions

1. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
2. Mix butter until creamy, add the flour, nuts, 1/2 cup sugar, salt and extracts.
3. Mix until well combined.
4. Refrigerate covered 30 minutes.
5. Preheat oven to 375°.
6. Shape cookie dough into crescents.
7. Bake 12-15 minutes.
8. When cool completely on a wire rack.
9. Dip tops of the cookies into the brown butter glaze; place on wire rack to harden.

For the Brown Butter Glaze:

1. In a medium bowl whisk together the butter, sugar and water until all lumps have disappeared and is creamy.

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