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Butter Pecan Skillet Cookies

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Triangular butter pecan skillet cookies topped with glaze maple pecans and sugar.
Photo by Ted Cavanaugh, Chelsea Cavanaugh, Food Styling by Michelle Gatton

If butter pecan ice cream were a cookie, it would be this all-levels skillet shortbread.  

  

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