132 pecan cookie recipes

Holly Cluster cookies: chewy brown-sugar chocolate chip cookies topped with green marzipan holly leaves and red cinnamon candy berries. Holiday cookie tray showpiece with old-school decorating charm.

Deluxe chocolate chunk walnut cookies with semi-sweet chunks and milk chocolate morsels in a chewy brown sugar dough. Bakery-style thick cookies with two kinds of chocolate.

No-bake chocolate rum balls made with crushed chocolate wafers, pecans, corn syrup, and dark rum. Rolled in sugar for a boozy, fudgy bite-sized holiday treat.

Fruit puffed cookies made with angel food cake mix, dried fruit, and pecans. Just 4 ingredients for light, airy cookies that puff up golden in under 10 minutes.

Fudge sweetarts are miniature tarts with buttery pastry shells filled with rich semi-sweet chocolate fudge and topped with a pecan half. Bite-sized, elegant, and irresistible.

Sand tarts, a classic Pennsylvania Dutch butter cookie rolled paper-thin, brushed with egg white, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, and topped with a pecan half. Crisp, buttery, and delicate.

Chocolate chip pecan cookies made with golden shortening and brown sugar for a chewy center and crispy edge. Big, bakery-style drop cookies that spread wide and stay soft inside.

Spiced pecan thumbprint cookies with cinnamon-scented dough and a glossy jam center. Buttery shortbread-style cookie with a nutty crunch, ready for the holiday cookie tin.

Viennese cookies with pecans, chocolate chips, lemon zest, cloves, and cinnamon in a buttery brown sugar dough. Tiny, crisp drop cookies baked in under 8 minutes.

Chocolate nut-filled cookies with a chocolate syrup and pecan filling sandwiched between two rolled dough circles. A window-topped sandwich cookie sealed with fork tines.

Thin, crispy wafer cookies rolled into delicate tubes while warm, then dipped in melted chocolate and crunchy pecans. A show-stopping holiday cookie that bakes in just 6 minutes.

Crunchy chocolate chip cookies loaded with pecans and crisp rice cereal, flavored with almond extract and brown sugar. Makes 5 dozen crispy-edged treats in 30 minutes.

Black and white chunk cookies loaded with semi-sweet and white chocolate chunks plus walnuts or pecans in a brown sugar butter dough. Makes 3 dozen.

Honey orange biscotti with pecans, orange juice concentrate, and orange zest, twice-baked until crunchy. A low-fat Italian cookie perfect for dipping in coffee or tea.

Buttery cinnamon crinkle cookies with a cinnamon-sugar crust and a pecan half pressed into each center. Cream of tartar gives them that signature chewy-crisp edge.

Maple meltaway shortbread crisps blend butter, cake flour, and chopped pecans with maple flavoring into delicate, snowy cookies. Five ingredients, 7-minute bake, classic Christmas tin staple.