Caramel Frosted Brown Sugar Cookies consist of a soft, cake-like cookie topped with a rich caramel frosting and pecan pieces. There are little bits of crunchy pecan in the batter too.
Caramel Frosted Brown Sugar Cookies consist of a soft, cake-like cookie topped with a rich caramel frosting and pecan pieces. There are little bits of crunchy pecan in the batter too. This is a recipe that I’ve adapted somewhat from Nancy Baggett’s The All-American Cookie Book
. I love the contrast between the soft cookies with their simple, subtle flavors and the rich, sweet caramel frosting. Paired together they produce a cookie with just the right amount of sweetness.
I think today will be our last stretch of warm weather for a while. Might finally be time to pack away the flip flops. Cold weather makes me want to hibernate in the house and stay in the kitchen with the oven on and bake away.
Normally I’m more apt to bake pies or brownies. But I think this Holiday season is going to be all about cookies.
I feel certain these Caramel Frosted Brown Sugar Cookies will make a few more appearances at our house this winter. They go wonderfully with a glass of warm milk or a cup of coffee.
Kitchen Tools I Use
- Electric Stand Mixer– A stand mixer is preferred, but a hand-held mixer can be used instead.
- Baking Sheets– I love these heavy duty baking sheets from everything to roasting vegetables to baking cookies.
- Parchment Paper– use parchment paper for easy clean-up an to prevent the cookies from sticking.
- Cookie Scoop– a cookie scoop makes it easy to quickly and easily measure out the cookie dough.
- Wire Rack– great for cooling the cookies.
Variations
- Use walnuts or almonds instead of pecans.
- Add a sprinkling of sea salt on top for some salty/sweet flavor.
How To Store
Cookies can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for 5 days.
Try These Other Cookies Recipes:
- Greek Butter Cookies
- Church Window Cookies
- Chocolate Croissant Cookies
- Rolo Blossom Cookies
- Chewy Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies
- Chocolate Florentine Cookies
Watch the Short Video Below to See How Easy This Brown Sugar Cookie Recipe Is.
Caramel Frosted Brown Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, slightly softened
- 1 1/3 cups packed light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup sour cream
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans
Caramel Frosting
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut in chunks
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 1/2 tablespoons hot water
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted after measuring
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- Chopped pecans for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease 2 baking sheets or line them with parchment paper.
- Sift flour and baking soda together into a bowl. Add salt. Set aside.
- Using an electric mixer, beat together the brown sugar and butter until fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time and vanilla extract. Beat until evenly mixed, scraping down the sides of the bowl.
- Lightly beat in half of flour mixture.
- Beat in sour cream until blended well.
- Add remaining flour mixture and pecans and beat until mixed.
- Using a 1/8-cup measure cup or ice cream scoop, drop dough in even mounds on prepared sheets, leaving 2 1/2 inches between cookies. Lightly flatten the tops of cookies using your hand or the back of a spoon.
- Bake 1 sheet at a time placing in the upper third of the oven for 9 to 12 minutes. Edges should be turning light gold and center should be just barely firm. Let cool on pans for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
- For frosting, melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Simmer butter, stirring occasionally until it turns slightly golden and smells very fragrant, about 3 minutes.
- Add brown sugar and cook 1 minute while stirring.
- Stir in hot water and corn syrup until well mixed and sugar dissolves.
- Vigorously stir in powdered sugar and vanilla extract until completely smooth. Add sea salt.
- Frost cookies before frosting sets and sprinkle with pecans.
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Originally posted November 12, 2014.
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Oh my gosh, these sound awesome! I cannot wait until my holiday cookie baking season begins!! 🙂
These cookies! I want! The caramel frosting looks amazing – I think I could eat it by the spoonful!
Cookies are great for sharing during holiday season 🙂 thanks for sharing this recipe 🙂
LOVE!!!! These cookies look insanely delicious. That frosting is calling my name. Pinned! And I love Nancy Baggett, btw! I have her All American Dessert book. 🙂
These cookies look fabulous! I love the caramel frosting with little pecan pieces on top. These would be so perfect to give people during the holidays! 🙂
These are definitely my kinda cookie! Swooning over that caramel frosting and how soft and chewy these look! pinning.
That’s what the weatherman said for my neck of the woods too – with freezing rain expected on Monday/Tuesday – I’m wondering what happened to “HOTlanta”? 🙂
Your adaptation of Nancy Baggett’s cookie looks wonderful! I haven’t evern been able to make a perfect sugar cookie so I appreciate perfection when I see it – these cookies with their sweet caramel frosting are a winner!
We actually have flurries today!! I love the look of these cookies! Browned sugar is just so comforting and I could eat that caramel frosting with a spoon!! pinned. 🙂
These are so my kind of cookie! They sound fantastic!!
And the weather – it was over 70 here yesterday and today I think the high is like 52 – it’s crazy!
Hi Christin, these cookies look delicious. . Love the flavours.. 🙂
The cold weather does the same to me – I never wanna leave and I become a hermit. Haha! I will wear flip-flops right until the first snowfall thought. I hate socks and shoes LOL Love these cookies – the frosting looks to die for.
These look absolutely amazing! Brown sugar and caramel=perfection. Pinned to try soon!
YES please! These cookies look incredible – so LOVE the caramel frosting and dusting of pecans! If there was a tray of cookies in front of me, in all kinds of flavours, I would pick this one!
OMG these cookies are magical! I love the caramel and brown sugar combo. Perfection!
I just made some a lot like this from a Southern Christmas cookbook, and we’re kind of in love! Yours look amazing — I might just have to try this version too! Pinned 🙂
Sugar cookies are my absolute favorite and these look like the best ever! I love your creativity, Christin! I’ve never had a brown sugar kind with caramel frosting, so I’m loving this. Pinned!
These look delicious!
These are the kinds of cookies I’ve been craving for a while! Cookies with caramel sauce, yum! Definitely going to try this out 🙂
These look like a wonderful addition to my ever-growing list of Christmas cookies I need to make. 😀 That caramel frosting is so smooth and creamy! Love these cookies, Christin.
The flavors in these cookies sound incredible, Christin! Love these…pinned.