Caramel nut chocolate cookies
48 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1½ | cup | Brown sugar; firmly packed |
| ⅔ | cup | Shortening |
| 1 | tablespoon | Water |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla extract |
| 2 | Eggs | |
| 1¾ | cup | All-purpose flour |
| ⅓ | cup | Cocoa |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Baking soda |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 2 | cups | Miniature semisweet chips |
| 1 | cup | Chopped pecans |
| 25 | Caramel candy; halved | |
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place sheets of foil on countertop for cooling cookies. Combine brown sugar, shortening, water and vanilla in large bowl.
Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Beat eggs into creamed mixture. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Mix into creamed mixture at low speed just until blended. Stir in chocolate chips.
Shape dough into 1-¼ inch balls. Dip tops in chopped pecans. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet. Press half caramel in center of each cookie. Bake one baking sheet at a time at 375 degrees for 7 to 9 minutes, or until cookies are set. DO NOT OVERBAKE. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove cookies to foil to cool completely Recipe by: From The Crisco Kitchens Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 311 by Yummi357@... on Nov 26, 1997