Press a whole pecan into the center of each cookie, flattening them slightly as you do so.
--- I understand that "them" refers to the cookies not to the pecans?
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If you can figure out how to flatten a nutmeat that is sitting on top of a ball of cookie dough, let us know how you did it.
It's grammatically ambiguous, but from visualising what would actually happen in this situation, yes, I imagine "them" refers to the cookies.