Ohio Margaret
The taste is good. No complaints there. The pecans are very pronounced, so if pecans are your thing, and you like dark chocolate, maybe it would be worth it to you to make these. Not me. The cost of dark chocolate is not cheap and the flavor of the dark chocolate gets lost in the cookie. Shaving the dark chocolate is a bit of a pain, but the real pain is shaping the dough into a rectangle and refrigerating for an hour. Then cutting that into squares and freezing that for 30 minutes. Then baking them...and my squares were too big, at 2" a piece and became round. So what was the point of cutting into squares and freezing? So I cut them in half and my second and third trays were better, but still fairly rounded. So the freezing step seemed pointless in the end. Dough cut into 1-1 1/2" squares makes about 48 cookies. You may want to toast your pecans ahead of time to give them more flavor. Also, fold in the dark chocolate shavings by hand. I put mine in the mixer and incorporated on low for less than 30 seconds and the dough turned a chocolate color. Looks nothing like the photo. All in all, for that much prep and cost, I want an outstanding cookie, not just okay or good.
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