What if I told you that I made pecan pie cookies… and that they were made with just THREE ingredients?
This past weekend, I decided to go on a bit of a baking frenzy and these pecan pie cookies are one of the treats that I came up with. They’re sweet, salty, chewy and slightly crunchy. My husband (my taste tester) LOVED them, which pretty much guarantees that you’ll like/love them too.
I am all about simplifying recipes.
In fact, I recently posted another equally delicious 3-ingredient Cookie recipe. Some of the most popular recipes on my blog are made with less than 5 ingredients: 3-ingredient flatbread, 2-ingredient Caramel Candy, Mini Fruit Pies. I even co-wrote the ebook, Simple Sweets: 5 ingredients or Less (you can get it for 50% off by using the code Holiday2014 before January 1st!) I’m sure that you’ll love these pecan pie cookies just as much as you love the other recipes on My Heart Beets.
The three ingredients that you’ll need to make 8 cookies are:
medjool dates
pecan halves
maple syrup
salt (this doesn’t count as an ingredient… it’s an unwritten rule, trust me)
The salt is optional but I absolutely love SALTY sweets. You can omit or adjust the salt according to taste.
If you decide to try these cookies, let me know what you think in the comments below!
- 5 medjool dates, pits removed
- 1 cup pecan halves, plus 8 extra halves for garnish
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- ¼ - ½ teaspoon sea salt (adjust to taste, I prefer salty sweets) (optional)
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Chop the dates and put them in a blender or a food processor along with 1 cup of pecans, maple syrup, and sea salt. Blend until the mixture becomes a thick puree.
- Using a 2-inch cookie scoop, drop cookies onto a greased baking sheet.
- Press down on the cookies with your fingers to flatten them.
- Top the cookies with pecan halves.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes or until cooked through.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- Store in an air-tight container in the fridge for up to 1 week.
These are delicious cookies. Just make sure you have a powerful blender or food processor. This is the third recipe of yours I have used. Your recipes may become the only ones I make. Easy and tasty. Thank you!
Shirley, thank you! I’m glad to hear you’re liking my recipes 🙂
Any luck with freezing these? I’d like to make them now but serve at Christmas:-). Thanks
Hi, yes I have actually frozen these as well as my 3-ingredient cookies and both have turned out just fine 🙂
Thank you! They were so good, they were gone too quickly! None left to freeze! I have to make more for Xmas:-) thanks for the great recipes.
Kari, I’m so glad you liked the recipe! 🙂 Thanks for letting me know how they turned out!
Already on our second batch of these and we just discovered the recipe last week.
Mike, awesome! Glad to hear that 🙂
These are sooooo good! Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Jill, so glad you liked the cookies! 🙂
They were a hit with the 5 year old and under crowd! I had to add a small amount of apple juice to my Vitamix and keep scraping it off the side in order to get it to blend properly. I was worried when the cookies were extremely soft as they came out of the oven, but they hardened somewhat as they cooled and came out very VERY sweet and tasty. They are definitely a sometimes treat – dates might be considered a fruit, but they are really just straight sugar. 🙂
Petra, so glad that they were a hit!
I will be making these tonight! I LOVE your blog and recipes. Keep your ideas coming please :).
That’s awesome, Vickie! I hope you love the cookies!
I am definitely making these next I just made the three ingredients cookies and I’m loving them!
Cathi, I think you’ll love these too! Let me know what you think 🙂
Thanks for a great recipe! I am on quite a restricted diet for next 4 months but can eat everything on this recipe! It was nice to make such an easy recipe. I didn’t quite have enough pecans so substituted 1/2 cup of almond meal with 1/2 cup of pecans and they worked really well and blending was not a problem. I have also made with rice malt instead of maple syrup when I didn’t have any in the cupboard and this works well too. I look forward to trying the Gluten Free Roti Bread recipe next!
I’m glad you liked the cookies! Thanks for letting me know how they turned out for you 🙂
My husband and I really like sweets but doing paleo so need healthy recipes that taste good. I have made paleo brownies. They aren’t bad but this cookie recipe is delicious. Thank you for sharing. I will definitely make these again with my food processor. First time ever using a food processor. Love it.?
Happy you like this recipe for pecan pie cookies!! 🙂
These were a huge hit for our Thanksgiving dinner! Thanks for creating such awesome and easy recipes!
Hi Jessica! I’m so happy to hear that 🙂 Thanks for letting me know how they turned out for you!
Making these cookies again! So far they have been a hit with my picky family, the organic cooking group, the food swap group and the Christmas tea. Perfectly sweet, slightly crunchy but also chewy, so great for both types of cookie people. Plus they go together in a flash. I mix it up in my Ninja 🙂 Thanks for sharing the recipe
That’s great! I’m so happy to hear that – thank you for letting me know how much you like them! 🙂