Pecan Turtle Cookies
Delicious pecan turtle cookies with chocolate chips, caramel and pecans taste like chocolate turtle candy in cookie form!
Yield: 13 cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 Tablespoons pancake syrup
- 2 cups all-purpose flour spooned and leveled
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- at least 15 pieces Werther's Original Soft Caramels
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Place butter in a large, microwave-safe mixing bowl then microwave just until butter melts (30 - 45 seconds). Set bowl aside and let the butter cool.
- In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- Add brown sugar and granulated sugar to the cooled butter. Stir together until ingredients are well combined and lumps from brown sugar are gone.
- Add egg and vegetable oil to the bowl of wet ingredients & stir well.
- Add vanilla extract and syrup to the bowl of wet ingredients & stir until smooth.
- Add half the flour mixture to the wet ingredients. Mix well, then add remaining flour and mix until completely incorporated.
- Stir in chocolate chips and pecans.
- Place unwrapped caramels between two sheets of wax paper and use a rolling pin to slightly flatten them. (Don't flatten the caramels until you are ready to use them. If you're only making 6 cookies, only flatten 6 of the caramels.)
- Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper. Scoop out a 2 Tablespoon mound of dough for each cookie. Make sure cookies are placed at least 2 inches apart on the baking sheet. Flatten each mound into a circular disc to form the bases of the cookies. Put one flattened caramel on top of each base. (*See video for visual reference*)
- Add 1 more Tablespoon of cookie dough to the top of each cookie. Flatten the dough over the caramel so that the caramel is sealed in the middle of cookie.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, until cookies are lightly browned and cooked through.
- Cool for 10 minutes on the cookie sheet before serving. Enjoy!
Notes
*Calorie counts are only an estimate and will vary based on the ingredients you use