Pecan Pie Cookies

This recipe is a semi-homemade recipe using already made pie crust as the bottom of the cookie. I liked that as it made the recipe very easy to follow. These do taste like a mini pecan pie with a drizzle of chocolate! I had three teenagers in the house the day I made them and needless to say there were gone very quickly! Depending on what pie crust you use will depend on how many cookies you get. I used one Pillsbury pie crust (the package has two, so you could easily double the recipe).

INGREDIENTS
1 prepared single pie crust
2 Tablespoons butter
1/2 cup pecans, chopped
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup corn syrup
2 eggs
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup milk chocolate chips for decorating

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large non-stick pan combine butter, pecans, brown sugar, corn syrup, salt and eggs. Cook on the stove top over medium low heat just until thickened about the same consistency of pudding. Remove from heat and set aside.  Unroll your dough and using a 3 inch cookie cutter, cut out circles. Gently fold the edges of the dough up, about 1/4 of an inch making a well in the center.  Spoon 1 tablespoon of the pecan mixture into each circle.  Place the cookies on a parchment lined baking sheet. Do this for each cookie. Bake for 8 minutes or until the filling is just set. Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.  Place chocolate chips in a Ziploc bag and microwave for 15 seconds or until mostly melted. Snip off the tip of the and drizzle chocolate over the cookies. Cool until set.

Enjoy!

This recipe comes from www.spendwithpennies.com