Recipe For Cooking Arizona Pecan Nuggets

Toaster Oven Cookies :: Drop Cookies

Arizona Pecan Nuggets

4 1/2 C. pecans, finely chopped
1 3/4 C. brown sugar, loosely scooped (not packed)
1 C. finely grated coconut
1/4 tea. salt
2 Tbsp. honey
4 lrg. egg whites
1/2 tea. vanilla extract or flavoring

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In lrg. bowl, mix pecans, brown sugar, coconut and salt. Add honey, egg whites and vanilla extract or flavoring; blend by hand or with a rubber spatula just until ingredients hold together.

On a cookie sheet lined with parchment baking paper or foil, drop batter by rounded Tbsp. 1 in. apart. Bake about 12 min. or until light golden brown. Do not overbake. Cool completely on lined cookie sheet. If cookies stick, peel paper or foil from cookies. To store, layer cookies between fresh parchment paper in airtight container.

NOTE: Bake on a dry day. Humidity Makes approximately these cookies very sticky.

Makes approximately 4 dozen nuggets.