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Light and crisp Flourless Chocolate Pecan Cookies are a scrumptious addition to your cookie jar!
These are my new favorite cookie…they are so easy and quick that you can’t mess them up. They are light, crisp, and full of pecans! Plus there is chocolate…the perfect amount of chocolate. Since chocolate is one of the key ingredients you have to use a good quality chocolate.
It’s worth picking up and using a really good quality brand of chocolate for your baking. Trust me…you can taste the difference. Just make sure there aren’t any crazy ingredients so the chocolate flavor really stands out.
Flourless Chocolate Pecan Cookies
Yield:
36
Prep Time:
20 minutes
Cook Time:
10 minutes
Total Time:
30 minutes
These Flourless Chocolate Pecan Cookies are gluten-free cookies made from freshly ground pecans.
Ingredients
- 18 oz unsalted pecan pieces
- 4 cups powdered sugar (plus more for kneading)
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 tbsp corn syrup
- 3 egg whites
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
- 1 tbsp shortening
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Place the pecans in a food processor and process in short bursts until it’s finely ground (just be careful not to turn it into pecan butter by processing too much). Add the remaining ingredients and continuing pulsing until everything comes together.
- Dust counter with powdered sugar, turn out cookie dough, and knead for about 2 minutes or until smooth. Additional powdered sugar may be needed if it’s too sticky and not coming together. (I almost always work in an additional 1/2 cup of powdered sugar or so.)
- Pinch off small pieces (about the size of a whole pecan in the shell) and roll them into balls. Place dough balls onto lined baking pans (or pans that have been sprayed with non-stick cookie spray). Gently flatten each cookie slightly.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes. Let cool on baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
- While cookies are cooling, melt chocolate in the microwave with shortening in 30 second bursts. Stir between each burst. Keep melting until chocolate is smooth and creamy. Using the back of a spoon, drizzle chocolate over cookies. Let chocolate cool and harden before serving.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 36 Serving Size: 1 cookieAmount Per Serving: Calories: 188Total Fat: 13gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 33mgCarbohydrates: 19gFiber: 2gSugar: 17gProtein: 2g
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This recipe looks divine! Pinned!
Oh! These cookies sound so interesting to me! I adore pecans…and chocolate.
These sound so good.
Yum! These were so good!
I haven’t tried it yet and the recipe looks tasty!
I love anything chocolate…it sounds delicious
Just tried to make these…what a mess!! What did I do wrong? Instead of baked cookies, I have small hard shell tops with a gloopy sticky mess all over my cookie sheet!!
Hi Laura, they bake up hollow on the inside…it’s kind of cool. But my guess is that you didn’t have enough powdered sugar to keep them together. You do have to work in additional powdered sugar after the dough starts to come together until it’s nice a thick and can be shaped by hand. Hope that helps w-
I haven’t tried it, but it looks so good.
This recipe sounds like a less sweet version of snowball / Mexican wedding cookies, which I absolutely love to make for the holidays! The chocolate drizzle is a nice touch, I can’t wait to try it out.
I have never tried American Heritage Chocolate.
i want to try this recipe this Christmas. I am excited to learn about this chocolate and I can’t wait to try it.
I have never heard of this brand- but our family LOVES chocolate- so we would like to try it!
The cookies look great. They look like they would be great with coffee! I have not heard of American Heritage Chocolate but they look great!
Recipe sounds good! I have not tried American Heritage Chocolate but it looks good!!
They really look tasty and pretty. I have never tried their chocolate.
I have never tried it-never heard of it actually but it looks great and I would love to try it!
This recipe looks delicious! I seriously want to bake it right now! I have never tried American Heritage Chocolate, but I really want to 🙂
I haven’t had it.
Those cookies look divine! I’ve never made pecan cookies like this, but may have to – I’m thinking caramel, too 🙂 I haven’t tried American Heritage but will have to check it out!
No flour… love it! Will definitely try these sometime.
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate…. three ways to win chocolate, oh my!
These look great! My mom is a huge pecan fan! I would love to surprise her this Christmas with these special cookies!
I have never heard of it but I would like to try out some recipes using the chocolate.
I haven’t ever tried American Heritage Chocolate, but I am excited to. I love pecans, such a great way to make a flourless cookie!
I have not tried American Heritage Chocolate, but it sounds like the perfect solution for the occasional treat.
I have never heard of or tried American Heritage Chocolate but would LOVE to!! And this receipe……yummy!! We love pecans and I am very excited to try this recipe. Thank you for sharing!!
I’m interested in the product because of its rich history – developed from a recipe from the 1750’s.
I’ve never tried American Heritage Chocolate.
Never tried the chocolate and the texture of the cookies in the recipe looks yummy 🙂
I had not heard of American Heritage Chocolate before reading this blog post. This recipe looks amazing and I’m really excited to make this for my family.
I’ve never tried it, but this chocoholic would love to!
I have never tried American Heritage Chocolate, and I would not hesitate trying this reciepe because I love pecans lol.
These look amazing! I have never tried American Heritage Chocolate. It looks divine. Can’t wait to try them.
Cheers,
Chrystal
I haven’t tried it but it sounds so good. I am curious about the spicy quality of this chocolate.
I have not tried it but am interested to do so.