148 pecan cookie recipes

The original 1939 Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe, straight from Ruth Wakefield's kitchen. Butter, brown sugar, vanilla, and semi-sweet chips with chopped walnuts. Makes 100 cookies with crispy edges and chewy, melty centers.

Loaded oatmeal cookies packed with bittersweet chocolate chunks, raisins, and pecans. Chewy centers with crisp golden edges from a brown sugar butter dough.

Giant Texas-sized cookies loaded with oats, cereal, chocolate chips, coconut, and pecans. Scooped with an ice cream scoop for massive, chewy, everything-in-it cookies.

Oatmeal-chocolate morsel cookies built on a yellow cake mix base, loaded with rolled oats, raisins, semisweet chocolate, and pecans. A 22-minute, no-fuss cookie that hides the cake mix behind the loaded mix-ins.

Old-fashioned Christmas Rocks cookies bursting with candied fruit, dates, figs, pecans, raisins, and currants in a cocoa-spiced batter with a hint of coffee. Dense, chewy, and built to last.

Knockoff Neiman-Marcus chocolate chip cookies built on the famous internet legend recipe: blender-pulverized oatmeal for tender chew, two kinds of chocolate, and a generous load of toasted walnuts or pecans.

Twice-baked Italian biscotti packed with chopped nuts, butter, and vanilla. A dunk-ready coffee cookie with a hard, crunchy snap and rich vanilla-nut flavor.

Schnecken are German-style cinnamon pecan rolls made from a soft yeasted dough filled with brown sugar, raisins, pecans, and cinnamon, then baked in muffin tins until golden.

Pumpkin drop cookies with warm spice, chocolate chips, and toasted walnuts. Soft, cakey fall cookies for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and everything in between.

This recipe is from my father-in-law Ed Stang. He just dumped in whatever goodies are on hand; they always taste great.

Creamy maple-sweetened sweet potato casserole topped with a crunchy brown sugar and pecan streusel. The Thanksgiving side dish that steals the show from the turkey every year.

Showstopping cranberry orange holiday wreath bread filled with cranberries, orange segments, pecans, and bran, drizzled with vanilla glaze. A festive yeast bread centerpiece for Christmas brunch.

Vanilla wafer walnut rum balls combine crushed cookies, ground walnuts, honey, and golden rum into bite-sized no-bake holiday treats rolled in powdered sugar. Five-ingredient Christmas classic.

Pecan squares with a buttery shortbread crust and a gooey pecan pie filling baked on a sheet pan. All the flavor of pecan pie in a portable, shareable bar cookie format.

Hungarian tarts with a cream cheese pastry shell and five filling options: almond, pecan, walnut, coconut, and farmer's cheese. A traditional holiday baking project.

Crisp, buttery sandie cookies made without pecans, using oats and corn flake crumbs for crunch instead. A nut-free twist on the classic pecan sandie.