Caramel Filled Cookies
There are sweet cookies, and then there are SWEET cookies. Caramel-Filled Cookies belong to the latter category - proceed with caution, intermediate-level-candy-fans!
Notes
1 pkg of Rolo candies has 48 in it. I buy 2 packages to allow for some being eaten during the baking process and because I can get more than 4 dozen cookies out of the dough.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup pecans, finely chopped
- 48 Rolo candies
- 1 tablespoon sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In small bowl, combine flour, cocoa, and baking soda. Mix well.
- In large bowl, beat the sugars and butter until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and eggs; beat well. Add flour mixture; blend well.
- Stir in 1/2 cup of pecans. For each cookkie, with floured hands, shape about 1 tablespoon of dough around a Rolo, covering completely.
- In small bowl, combine rest of pecans and 1 tablespoon sugar. Press one side of each ball in pecan/sugar mixture.
- Place nut side up on ungreased cookie sheet, 2 inches apart.
- Bake 7 - 10 minutes or until set and slightly cracked.
- Cool on cookie sheet 2 minutes, then remove and cool completely on wire racks.
