Top these cookies with maple brown butter frosting and you won’t be sorry.
Pumpkin Pecan Chocolate Chunk Cookies:
Whisk together flour and pumpkin pie spice. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, cream butter. Add both sugars and beat until light and fluffy.
Add vanilla. Add eggs one at a time and beat until combined.
Add flour/spice mixture to sugar mixture in three additions. Alternate with pumpkin in two additions, ending with flour mixture.
Stir in chopped pecans and chocolate chunks.
Drop on cookie tray lined with parchment paper.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes. Makes about four dozen cookies. Let cool before frosting.
Maple Brown Butter Frosting:
Sift sugar and set aside.
Melt butter over medium heat until golden brown. Watch closely so it does not burn.
Add butter to sugar, scraping all the butter into the bowl.
Add milk and maple flavoring. Stir until smooth.
Spread on top of cookies with an knife or offset spatula.
Enjoy!
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These were amazing! The cookies were perfectly soft and chewy, but it was really all about the icing. The only problem I had with these was that I really couldn’t taste the pecans at all, so I would just skip them next time – there will definitely be a next time!
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annaelizz on 12.3.2009
I made these for Thanksgiving and my family loved them. Thank you for a great recipe that I will definetly use again!
The Cackling Cookie on 11.23.2009
Made these scrumptious cookies to put in hostess gift bags for my baby shower this past weekend. They are truly DIVINE and I’ll be bringing a batch for the family Thanksgiving get together this week! I agree with other reviewers that these are good on their own without the frosting – heavenly! But with the frosting – they are pure NIRVANA!!! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
irishheart on 11.12.2009
Oh my dear Bakerella!….I made these tonight for my family (and me) and they’re absolutely delicious! Thank you so much. I have an annual “Day before Thanksgiving Luncheon” to attend, and I am bringing these! I think everyone will love them. They are definitely going in my permanent cookie file!
semirose on 11.12.2009
Oh goodness, I just want to make a huge batch of that frosting and oh I don’t know bathe in it and then eat my way out or something right now. It’s always more of a would you like a cookie with your frosting with these. Not that I don’t adore the cookies but ohmigosh the frosting.
Bakerella on 11.12.2009
BlueBonnetGal – hope you like em.
HannahHandpainted – Good catch. I’ll fix it, although it might be more fun to leave it that way.
Tharrisgirl – I know what you mean. The frosting can almost stand on it’s own, too.