British / American · Desserts
Halloween Cookies
Big, chewy oatmeal cookies studded with M&Ms and pecans -- a crowd-pleasing treat from Nigella Lawson.
Ingredients
Serves 12- 1 cupflour
- ½ tspbaking powder
- ½ tspsalt
- 1 cuprolled oats
- 9 tbspbutter, at room temperature
- ½ cuplight brown sugar
- ½ cupsuperfine sugar
- 1 largeegg
- 1 tspvanilla extract
- ¾ cupchopped pecans
- 1 cupM&Ms or Reese's Pieces
Method
- 01
Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, and oats. In an electric mixer, beat butter and both sugars until creamy. Add egg and vanilla; beat until smooth.
- 02
Add flour mixture and beat until smooth. By hand, fold in pecans and M&Ms.
- 03
Roll quarter-cup measures of dough into balls and flatten into fat disks about 1/2 inch thick. Place on parchment-lined baking sheets, about 6 at a time, leaving room to spread.
- 04
Bake until risen, dry on surface, and very lightly browned, 15 to 20 minutes. They will be too soft to lift. Let harden 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.