Chocolate and caramel lovers will snap up these buttery-rich cookies quickly.
Caramel-Pecan Snappers
- Prep Time 60 min
- Total 60 min
- Servings 36
- Ingredients 13
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 3/4 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans
- 36 caramels, unwrapped
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (6 oz), melted, cooled
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat sugar, shortening, butter, vanilla and egg with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt.
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Step2Shape dough into 1-inch balls. On ungreased cookie sheet, place balls 3 inches apart. With greased bottom of glass dipped into sugar, flatten balls slightly. Press 1 teaspoon pecans onto each cookie.
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Step3Bake 9 to 10 minutes or until set but not brown. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.
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Step4In small microwavable bowl, microwave caramels and milk uncovered on High 2 to 3 minutes, stirring every minute, until smooth. Spoon caramel over cookies; top with chocolate. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
Nutrition
150
Calories
7g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
20g
Total Carbohydrate
12g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 150
- Calories from Fat
- 60
- Total Fat
- 7g
- 10%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 14%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 3%
- Sodium
- 80mg
- 3%
- Potassium
- 70mg
- 2%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 20g
- 7%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 12g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 2%
- 2%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
0 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; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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