Reviewed: May 5, 2012

Someone brought me some store bought Pecan Sandies but they tasted weird to me. I decided to look up a recipe and found this one. These were so good nobody even wants to think of the prepackaged kind anymore.

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Timmons Family

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Feb. 12, 2012

i also altered this recipe with rave results. Instead of 1 cup of white sugar I did 1/2 cup white and 1/2 cup packed brown sugar and I doubled the vanilla. This are awesome cookies. They do taste just like the keebler cookies. does that make me a little elf?

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Karen

Reviewed: Feb. 7, 2012

Oh, my oh my! This makes such good cookies. I will never again buy the cookies in a sack again. Delicious! Make a lot, is easy enough and just a great cookie. I used 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, 2 tsp vanilla and it was just perfect!

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Epuddle

Reviewed: Feb. 3, 2012

Oh boy, these are GOOD! I made 1/2 recipe because I only had 1 cup of pecans. I used half brown sugar, half regular sugar, kept the powdered sugar the same. I used canola oil and used a little less (about 2/3 of the half cup called for in the half recipe.) I used unsalted butter, I never use margarine. I used my small cookie scoop, and didn't bother to roll them in sugar, but flattened them slighty with my fingers before baking. They spread out perfectly, and didn't stick to the cookie sheets. This recipe is a keeper, will make often!

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cookin' for cash

Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: Sheffield, Massachusetts, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 28, 2012

Excellent tasting and reasonably easy to make!

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BookishBecky

Home Town: Rochester, New York, USA

Living In: Farnborough, Hampshire, England, U.K.

Reviewed: Jan. 19, 2012

Generally I like this type of cookie, with a dough that includes confectioners' sugar, oil, butter and cream of tartar. I know the cookies for their characteristic lightness and sandy texture. Not so much this time. The mixed dough was very soft and laden with oil, already a big tip-off of what was to come. I chilled the dough and while it did firm up, the resulting cookies were overly greasy, somewhat crumbly and not even substantive enough. While one could play with the amounts of margarine (I used butter) and oil, the solution, I'm sure, would be to add a little more flour, simple as that.

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naples34102

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Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Living In: Mequon, Wisconsin, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 18, 2012

These cookies are great, though not traditional pecan sandies. The baking time is definitely more like 9 mnutes. They tend to burn on bottom quickly if you don't keep an eye on them. I used parchment paper, and they didn't stick. I think next time I'll try baking them on the top rack of the oven to help with the burning. Also instead of rolling the cookie dough ball in sugar, I would dip them and not cover the bottom with sugar because sugar tends to burn. These cookies DO expand, so make sure not to make them too big and place them 2 inches apart. They bake so quickly, you can make multiple batches in no time! I didn't have enough oil, so I substituted 1/2 of the oil with apple sauce. It turned out great :)

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MOBACON

Reviewed: Jan. 16, 2012

Good, easy recipe to make. Used real butter, extra vanilla, and white and brown sugar. Oh, and walnuts because I ran out of pecans.

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peekaboo0110

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Jan. 5, 2012

Delicious!!!! :D used 2 teaspoons of vanilla instead of 1, just as everybody else suggested

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FernieEirk

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Huntington Beach, California, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 1, 2012

Loved these Cookies! We had to use margarine because my husband and son have dairy allergies, but they were still good. I can only imagine how good they would be with real butter!

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