This Butter Pecan Cake Cookies recipe is an easy cake mix cookies recipe perfect for kids snacks and family dessert!
Have you ever made a recipe that was seriously delicious, but you just weren't sure what to call it? Well, I am not sure what to call these delicious little cookies, but I think that Butter Pecan Cake Cookies makes absolute perfect sense!
Butter Pecan Cake Cookies Recipe
The flavor immediately had me thinking of butter pecan ice cream, which is a hugely popular flavor during the summertime!
The nice thing about getting your butter pecan fix via a cookie instead of ice cream is that you don't have to worry about it melting and dribbling down your chin if you're slow in eating them!
They also remind me a little of Pecan Sandies, one of my favorite store bought cookies! Of course, they're much softer and chewier - store bought cookies tend to be a little crunchy, right?
These absolutely melt in your mouth, and that homemade buttercream frosting is simply TO DIE FOR.
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How to Make Butter Pecan Cake Cookies
Ingredients you will need to make Butter Pecan Cake Cookies
- 1 15.25 oz box of Butter Pecan Cake mix
- ⅔ cup all purpose flour
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 2 Tablespoons sour cream
- Granulated sugar for pressing cookies
- 4 ounces cream cheese softened
- ¼ cup butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-2 cups powdered sugar it really depends on your taste, i like mine sweet!
- Pecans can use chopped pecans also
Instructions for how to make Butter Pecan Cake Cookies
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large mixing bowl, add the cake mix, flour, oil, sour cream and eggs. Mix well. Dough will be thick and stiff and possibly sticky.
Scoop tablespoon sized dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Use the bottom of a glass, dipped in sugar to flatten cookies to about ¼ thickness.
Bake 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
When cookies are completely cool, frost.
Beat butter and cream cheese in a bowl until mixed well. Add vanilla and sugar and beat until mixed well, scraping bowl down if necessary.
Frost cookies with a generous dollop of frosting and top with a whole pecan.
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Butter Pecan Cake Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 15.25 oz butter pecan cake mix
- ⅔ cup all purpose flour
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup oil
- 2 Tablespoons sour cream
- Sugar for pressing cookies
- 4 ounces cream cheese softened
- ¼ cup butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-2 cups powdered sugar it really depends on your taste, i like mine sweet!
- Pecans can use chopped pecans also
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- In a large mixing bowl, add the cake mix, flour, oil, sour cream and eggs. Mix well. Dough will be thick and stiff and possibly sticky.
- Scoop tablespoon sized dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Use the bottom of a glass, dipped in sugar to flatten cookies to about ¼ thickness.
- Bake 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
- When cookies are completely cool, frost.
- Beat butter and cream cheese in a bowl until mixed well. Add vanilla and sugar and beat until mixed well, scraping bowl down if necessary.
- Frost cookies with a generous dollop of frosting and top with a whole pecan.
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I'd love to hear what you think if you try this recipe!
Tamie says
Those look and sound like a winner!!