Day 4 Maple Pecan White Chocolate Chip

This cookie is for my friend Elizabeth who specifically asked for a white chocolate chip kind of cookie, and it happened to be the year we went to Vermont and brought back a bunch of wonderful maple syrup!!

Maple Pecan White Chocolate Chip

• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup pure maple syrup - the good kind not pancake syrup
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 cup each , white chocolate chips and chopped pecans ( I sometimes leave them whole )

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Beat the butter, brown sugar and maple syrup until well  mixed, it will look like wet sand.
3. Add the egg, vanilla and baking soda.
4. Add in the flour and mix until it is combined.
5.  Mix in the white chocolate chips and the pecans.
6. Drop tablespoons of dough about 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet.  Flatten them slightly with your palm.
7. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until pale golden and set around the edges. 

Makes about 2 dozen cookies.