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Chocolate Cookie Turtles




Source of Recipe


very best baking






Recipe Introduction


This is a fanciful cookie sure to capture your imagination.





List of Ingredients



• •1 2/3 cups (about 100) shelled pecans
  
• •1 pkg. (16.5 oz.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
  
• •20 caramels, unwrapped
  
• •2 tablespoons milk
  






Instructions



1. PREHEAT oven to 375° F.
   
   
2. SOAK pecans in water for 5 minutes. Arrange 5 pecans on ungreased baking sheets (1 for head, 4 for legs), leaving about a 1-inch circle in center.
   
   
3. SHAPE slightly rounded tablespoons of cookie dough into balls; place over circle onto pecans. Repeat with remaining pecans and dough, placing turtles two inches apart on baking sheets.
   
   
4. BAKE for 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are crisp. Cool on baking sheets on wire racks for 1 minute; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
   
   
5. MICROWAVE caramels and milk in medium, microwave-safe bowl on HIGH (100%) power for 1 1/2 minutes; stir. Microwave at additional 10- to 15-second intervals, stirring until smooth. Drizzle over turtles.
   
   
6. NOTE: Dough from one batch Original NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Chocolate Chip Cookies (NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels 6-oz. pkg. recipe) may be used.
   






Final Comments


Yields: 24 cookies (2 dozen)