Pecan Coils with Brown Butter Icing

Pecan coils with brown butter icing. These incredibly delicious sweet treats are perfect for breakfast with a cup of coffee, a sweet treat or dessert.

Ok people, let's agree on one thing. You can never have too many recipes that entail sugar and butter oozing out of  soft, fluffy crevices. What if I threw in brown butter icing. Or glazed pecans...you need these in your life!

My little family of three {before we became a family of four last month...whaaa?? four!} lived with my aunt and uncle for several months out in the DC/Virginia area during the fall--swoon! Not only was it gorgeous there, but my Aunt Cynthia gave me the best gift she could have given me: this incredible recipe.

Is that weird that I'd rather have a new favorite recipe I plan on making forever and ever, amen, than any other gift? This basic roll recipe she received from a friend of hers, then she went on to use it for my Grandmother's Pecan Coil recipe, with brown butter icing and all. I knew I loved my Grandma...

 This roll recipe is simply amazing. She's known in her church for these rolls, and people expect them at gatherings. If she doesn't show up with them, people get angry. Like, Mel Gibson angry {He was the first angry little elf that came to mind....Alec Baldwin? Charlie Sheen? Chris Brown?  T-Swift in "We Are Never Getting Back Together"?}.

 Making the Pecan Coils

Fold a rectangle of dough  (half of the dough) into thirds on top of itself, like you're folding a letter. Use a pizza cutter or bench scraper to cut the folded dough into 12 strips. Gently twist each strip, then tie it into a knot. You can get messy with it, nobody cares. This recipe probably isn't for you if you have a little OCD in you. Repeat with remaining dough.

While they're baking, make your brown butter icing. Again, this stuff is magic. MAG-GIC. I eat it by the spoonful(s) I tell ya. Nuts hadn't been in my baking lately, so this was a pleasant surprise to crunch into the pecans that toasted perfectly in the oven, became glazed-over in this rich, buttery icing, and broke up the perfectly moist and soft roll.

Your Valentine wants these this year. They all told me so...

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Pecan Coils With Brown Butter Icing

Delicious and flavorful nut coils

5 from 1 vote

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 1 hour hour 45 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour 55 minutes minutes

Servings: 24 servings

Calories: 257kcal

Author: Kadee & Desarae

Ingredients

Basic Rolls

• ▢ 4 Tablespoon yeast
• ▢ 1 ⅛ c warm water
• ▢ ½ c potato flakes
• ▢ ¼ c oil
• ▢ ¼ c sugar
• ▢ ½ Tablespoon salt
• ▢ ⅓ c powdered milk
• ▢ 1 egg
• ▢ 3-3 ½ c flour
• ▢ ½ c butter soft/melted
• ▢ ½ c white sugar
• ▢ ½ c brown sugar
• ▢ 2-3 Tablespoon cinnamon
• ▢ ½ c pecans chopped
• ▢ ½ c butter
• ▢ 1-1 ⅓ c powdered sugar
• ▢ 2 Tablespoon vanilla
• ▢ pinch coarse salt

Instructions

Rolls

• Mix yeast into warm water until frothy.
• Add remaining ingredients into mixer, adding flour slowly. You still want the dough sticky.
• Knead 7 minutes. Let rise in bowl covered with towel 45 minutes in warm, draft-free place.
• Punch dough down, let rise 20 more minutes.
• Shape dough: for nut coils or cinnamon rolls, shape into rectangle on lightly floured surface about ⅓" thick. For crescent rolls, shape into circle, cut into triangles with pizza cutter, and roll up each triangle.
• Cover shaped rolls with light towel and let rise in draft-free area until puffy while oven is heating.

Filling

• Microwave butter on low setting (or defrost) until very soft, almost melted. Spread over dough.
• Sprinkle sugars, cinnamon, and pecans over butter.
• Fold dough over onto itself twice, into thirds.
• Use pizza cutter to cut dough log into strips. Gently twist each strip slightly, then form into knot.
• Place knots on parchment paper-lined pan. Cover with light towel and let rise 30-60 minutes, or until almost doubled.
• Bake at 375°F (190°C) 8-10 minutes, or until barely browned.

Icing

• Brown butter by heating in pot on medium, whisking frequently. Butter will get frothy, then die down. Continue cooking/whisking until butter becomes light brown, you see plenty of brown specks, and smell a nutty aroma (about 7 minutes). Remove from heat and pour into glass bowl.
• Whisk in enough powdered sugar to make icing drizzling-consistency.
• Whisk in vanilla and salt.
• Drizzle on warm nut coils.

Nutrition

Calories: 257kcal | Carbohydrates: 34g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 28mg | Sodium: 226mg | Potassium: 83mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 265IU | Vitamin C: 1.2mg | Calcium: 34mg | Iron: 1.1mg

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