Craving caramel apples? Bake up a batch of cookies, and drizzle them with melted caramels.
Caramel Apple Cookies
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 1 hr 10 min
- Servings 12
- Ingredients 13
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 3/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 package (0.13 to 0.14 oz) strawberry, cherry, tropical punch or lemon-lime-flavored unsweetened soft drink mix
- About 12 craft sticks (flat wooden sticks with round ends)
- 24 caramels (from 14-oz bag)
- 2 tablespoons water
- Betty Crocker™ candy sprinkles, if desired

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 400°F. In large bowl, beat sugar, butter and shortening with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in vanilla and egg. Stir in flour, baking soda, salt and soft drink mix (dry).
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Step2On lightly floured cloth-covered surface, roll dough 1/4 inch thick. Cut with 3-inch round or apple-shaped cookie cutter. On ungreased cookie sheet, place cutouts 2 inches apart. Carefully insert 1 inch of wooden stick into side of each cookie.
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Step3Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until edges are light brown. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
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Step4In 2-quart saucepan, heat caramels and water over low heat, stirring frequently, until melted and smooth. If caramel glaze becomes too stiff, heat over low heat, stirring constantly, until softened.
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Step5Spread top third of each cookie (opposite wooden stick) with caramel glaze. Hold cookie upright to allow glaze to drizzle down cookie. Sprinkle with candy sprinkles.
Nutrition
250
Calories
10g
Total Fat
3g
Protein
36g
Total Carbohydrate
18g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 250
- Calories from Fat
- 90
- Total Fat
- 10g
- 16%
- Saturated Fat
- 4g
- 21%
- Trans Fat
- 1g
- Cholesterol
- 30mg
- 10%
- Sodium
- 170mg
- 7%
- Potassium
- 65mg
- 2%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 36g
- 12%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 18g
- Protein
- 3g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 2%
- 2%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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