Pecan Blondies

Crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside. This is one awesome giant cookie!!

Pecan Blondie Recipe

1 cup pecans
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 tsp molassas
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp almond extract
1 egg
1 cup unbleached a-p flour
t tsp baking powder
1/2 cup chocolate chips (to make your own, freeze a good quality chocolate bar and break into pieces with a sharp knife)

Preheat oven to 350 F. Toast pecans for 5 minutes, until quite fragrant. Remove from oven and cool.

In a medium bowl cream together butter and sugar; stir it remaining ingredients in the order listed until just blended. Lastly fold in cooled pecans.

Turn batter into a 10" tart pan. Cover with a piece of parchment and use hands to spread dough to evenly cover bottom of pan. Remove parchment and bake for 30 minutes until it starts to pull away from the sides of the pan. Remove from oven and cool.

Serve slightly warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or allow to cool completely and store in an airtight container.