When I was eight I entered our county fair’s Hershey’s Cocoa cookie contest and shockingly I won! I feel like I need to thank my Mom for that! At eight I’m sure I wasn’t baking alone! I won with a Chocolate cookie with a pecan on top with chocolate drizzle. Here’s a picture to prove this in case you don’t believe me. I also won the contest again at age 18.
I feel like this newer Chocolate Caramel cookie is a step up from my first “famous” Chocolate Pecan cookie! This year I made this cookie for a cookie exchange and won “most creative cookie.” We are also enjoying this cookie among the rest of our Christmas cookie selection in our home and I am noticing that these are dwindling quicker than the rest. I hope this makes it into your cookie baking list this year and if not this year it’s a must for next year! Have a Dairy Christmas!
Turtle Cookies
Course: Christmas Cookies, Desserts1
hour20
minutes12
minutesIngredients
- Cookie Dough:
1 cup flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar
1 large egg, separated, may need a second egg white
2 Tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1½ pecans, chopped
- Caramel Mixture:
15 soft caramel candies
3 Tablespoons heavy cream
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Combine butter and sugar with an electric mixer until it is light and fluffy about 1 to 2 minutes.
- Add egg yolk, milk and vanilla and mix until combined.
- Combine flour, cocoa and salt in bowl and mix. Add flour mixture and mix until just combined.
- Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour until firm.
- Whisk the egg whites in bowl until frothy. I use two egg whites here. Place pecans in a second bowl.
- Roll dough into 1 inch balls, dip in egg whites, then roll in pecans.
- Line baking pans with parchment paper.Place cookie balls on the baking sheet.
- Using your thumb or a ¼ or ½ teaspoon measuring spoon, make an indentation in the center of each cookie ball.
- Bake cookies until set, about 12 minutes.
- Microwave caramels and cream in bowl for about a minute. Mix and if needed, microwave another 30 seconds until smooth.
- Once the cookies are done remove from oven and softly press the indentations on more time.
- Fill each with ½-1 teaspoon of the caramel mixture.
- Cool 5-10 minutes and transfer cookies to a wire cooling rack.
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Originally posted on EatFarmLove.com on December 22, 2015 and updated on December 12, 2020.
And I remember you entering them! Merry Christmas to you and your family!