Chocolate Turtle Cookies

Name: Chocolate Turtle Cookies
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 30
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 8 Tbsps (1 stick) butter, softened; 14 soft caramel candies; 1 teaspoons chocolate extract (optional); 79 milliliters cocoa powder; 1 large egg, separated, plus 1 egg white; 237 milliliters all-purpose flour; 3 Tbsps heavy cream; 2 Tbsps milk; 296 milliliters pecans, chopped fine; 1 teaspoons salt; 158 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract

Chocolate Turtle Cookies might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe makes 30 servings with 116 calories, 1g of protein, and 7g of fat each. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have pecans, sugar, chocolate extract, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour.

Instructions

Combine flour, cocoa, and salt in bowl. With electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 2 minutes.

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Butter

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add egg yolk, milk, and extract(s) and mix until incorporated. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture until just combined. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, 1 hour.

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Egg Yolk

Extract

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Adjust oven rack to upper-middle and lower-middle positions and heat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Oven

Whisk egg whites in bowl until frothy.

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Egg Whites

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Whisk

Bowl

Place pecans in another bowl.

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Pecans

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Bowl

Roll dough into 1-inch balls, dip in egg whites, then roll in pecans.

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Egg Whites

Pecans

Dough

Roll

Dip

Place balls 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheets. Using 1/2-teaspoon measure, make indentation in center of each ball.

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Baking Sheet

Bake until set, about 12 minutes, switching and rotating sheets halfway through baking.

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Oven

Microwave caramels and cream in bowl, stirring occasionally, until smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Once cookies are removed from over, gently re-press existing indentations. Fill each with 1/2 teaspoon caramel mixture, and garnish with a few grains of coarse salt, if desired. Cool 10 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

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Coarse Salt

Caramel