Looking for a delicious dessert made using Gold Medal® all-purpose flour? Then check out these chocolate-caramel turtle cookies.
Chocolate-Caramel Turtle Cookies
- Prep Time 1 hr 40 min
- Total 1 hr 40 min
- Servings 48
- Ingredients 9
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups pecan halves
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
- 48 round milk chocolate-covered chewy caramels (from 13-oz bag), unwrapped
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 375°F (if using dark or nonstick cookie sheet, heat oven to 350°F). In medium bowl, soak pecans in water while making dough; drain well.
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Step2In medium bowl, beat sugar, butter, vanilla and egg with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. On low speed, beat in flour and cocoa until dough forms.
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Step3On ungreased cookie sheets, for each cookie, arrange 5 pecans to look like head and legs of a turtle. Shape dough by rounded teaspoonfuls into 1-inch balls. Place 1 ball on top of each group of 5 pecans, pressing lightly into pecans with palm of hand.
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Step4Bake 7 to 10 minutes or until set. Immediately press 1 caramel gently onto top of each cookie; let stand 5 minutes to soften caramel. Use small spatula to flatten candy slightly. Remove cookies from cookie sheets to cooling racks.
Nutrition
120
Calories
8g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
10g
Total Carbohydrate
6g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 120
- Calories from Fat
- 70
- Total Fat
- 8g
- 12%
- Saturated Fat
- 2 1/2g
- 14%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 15mg
- 4%
- Sodium
- 30mg
- 1%
- Potassium
- 45mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 10g
- 3%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 6g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 2%
- 2%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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