Pumpkin Butter Filled Pecan Wafers

Directions

1. Pumpkin Butter Ingredients
2. Put your pumpkin puree in the slow cooker with the rest of the ingredients and mix it up.
3. Turn it on the low setting for 8 hours.
4. It should darken in color and thicken in texture. Taste it and add anything else you might want.

1. Pecan Wafer Ingredients
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and position the racks in the top 1/3 of the oven.
3. In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and ground pecans. Set aside.
4. In a separate bowl, beat the butter until it is fluffy and creamy.
5. Add the brown sugar and mix until it is light and fluffy, scraping the sides of the bowl and smashing any lumps of brown sugar along the way.
6. Mix in the egg yolks one at a time and then vanilla extract, scraping the sides again if needed.
7. Stir in the flour mixture by hand and be careful not to over mix. I use a rubber spatula to do this.
8. Turn the dough out onto the counter-top and kneed it once or twice to form one large ball. Cut the dough into four quarters, then shape each piece into a ball. Flatten each of the four balls into 1/2-inch thick pancakes, and wrap each piece individually in plastic before chilling in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
9. Put the cold dough between two layers of plastic wrap and roll it out so it is wafer thin, about 1/8-inch. The plastic wrap means you don't have to use more flour and that means I don't get flour all over my kitchen. Win!
10. Stamp out the wafers using a cookie cutter. I used a 2 1/2 inch round cookie cutter and if yours is smaller or bigger the yield will be more or less. Just FYI.
11. Arrange cookies 1/2 inch apart on prepared baking sheet and then sprinkle each cookie with a small pinch of sugar.
12. Bake for about seven minutes or until the cookie edges are just starting to turn golden brown. Remove from oven and cool completely on a rack.
13. When you are ready to assemble the cookies, spread a heaping teaspoon of pumpkin butter on the “bottom side” of one of the wafers and then make a sandwich with another wafer.
14. Enjoy!