Caramel-Pecan Snappers

Submitted by stovetop stephanie

"I haven't tried these out yet but they look good .found on side of flour bag"

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Yields: 3 dozen
• Serves: 36

ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 1⁄4 cup shortening
• 1⁄4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 3⁄4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 3⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 3⁄4 cup chopped pecans
• 36 caramels, unwrapped
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 cup hershey semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted cooled

directions

1. heat oven to 350 in large bowl ,beat sugar,shortening, butter,vanilla and egg with mixer stir in dry ingredients.
2. shape dough into 1in balls on ungreased cookie sheet 3in apart
3. with greased bottem of glass dipped into sugar flatten balls slightly press 1 teaspoon pecans onto each cookie.
4. bake 9-10 and remove from oven place on cooling rack.
5. in small microwavable bowl, microwave caramels and milk uncovered on high 2-3 minutes stirring every minute until smooth
6. spoon caramel over cookies top with melted cooled chocolate
7. cool completely about 30 minutes minutes.

Reviews

[Ang Gar]

I made this for a cookie exchange, and it went over well. Everyone loved these cookies. It is hard to press the pecans in the dough the way it says, so just do what you can. I drizzled the caramel and chocolate on the top. They looked really pretty. Everyone loved these! Very tasty too. I also sprinkled sugar on the top of each of them when they got out of the oven before I drizzled the caramel and chocolate. That is optional. Overall, great cookie!