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Fantasy Chocolate-Caramel Delights

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  • Servings: 36
  • Prep: 30m
  • Cook: 10m
  • The following recipe serves 36 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1/2 cup butter (or margarine, softened)
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 4 ounces caramels (vanilla caramels, 16 unwrapped)
  • 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
  • 1 1/4 cups finely chopped pecans
  • ½ cup semisweet chocolate pieces
  • 1 teaspoon shortening
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: In a large mixing bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer for 30 seconds.

  • Step 2: Add sugar and beat well.

  • Step 3: Separate egg, setting the egg white aside to use later

  • Step 4: Beat in egg yolk, milk and vanilla.

  • Step 5: In another bowl, stir together the flour, cocoa powder and salt.

  • Step 6: Add flour mixture to butter mixture and beat until well combined.

  • Step 7: Chill the cookie dough in plastic wrap for 2 hours or until easy to handle.

  • Step 8: In a small saucepan, heat and stir caramels and whipping cream over low heat until mixture is smooth. Set aside.

  • Step 9: Shape the dough into 1-inch balls.

  • Step 10: Slightly beat reserved white.

  • Step 11: Roll the balls in egg white, then in nuts to coat.

  • Step 12: Place 1 inch apart on a lightly greased cookie sheet.

  • Step 13: Using your thumb, make an indentation in center of each cookie.

  • Step 14: Bake in a 350 degree F oven about 10 minutes or until edges are firm.

  • Step 15: Spoon some melted caramel mixture into indentation of each cookie. Transfer cookies to wire rack to cool.

  • Step 16: In another saucepan, heat and stir chocolate pieces and shortening over low heat until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth.

  • Step 17: Let cool slightly then transfer the chocolate mixture to a self-sealing plastic bag. Close bag and cut a small hole in one corner of it.

  • Step 18: Drizzle cookies with chocolate mixture.

  • Step 19: Let stand until chocolate is set. Makes 36 cookies.


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