Name: Honey Pecan Squares
Yield: Makes one 9 x 13 x 2-inch pan, about twenty-four 2-inch squares
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: ⅓ cup granulated sugar; 3 tablespoons dark honey; 2 cups all-purpose flour; ¾ cup light brown sugar, firmly packed; 12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) unsalted butter; Pinch salt; 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream; 2 large eggs; 8 tablespoons (1 stick) cold unsalted butter; 3 cups pecan halves or a mixture of halves and pieces; 1 teaspoon baking powder; ¼ teaspoon salt

Preparation info

Makes one 9 x 13 x 2 inch pan, about
twenty-four
2-inch squares

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Cookies Unlimited

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2000

About

This is a rich and easy recipe given to me by Jayne Sutton of Darien, Connecticut. I’m proud to say that Jayne has been coming to my classes for more than 20 years, recently bringing her daughter Leslie, too.

Ingredients

Cookie Dough

2 cups all-purpose flour
⅓ cup granulated sugar
¼

Method

For the dough, combine the flour, granulated sugar, salt, and baking powder in the bowl of a food processor and pulse several times to mix. Cut the butter into about sixteen pieces and add to the work bowl. Continue pulsing until the butter is finely worked into the dough and the mixture is a fine powder again. Add the eggs; continue pulsing until the dough forms a ball.