The holiday baking season is upon us and since you can never have too many holiday cookie recipes I have joined up with 12 other bloggers to bring you The Ultimate Baker's Dozen Christmas Cookie Exchange. In addition to bringing you great holiday cookie ideas, 7 of the participating bloggers will be giving away cookie of the month club memberships! To see all of the participating bloggers, and to learn more about the cookie giveaways, please visit the Baker's Dozen home site at www.13CookieChristmas.info.
Chocolate turtles are a chocolate wrapped caramel and pecan treats that seem to flood the stores in time for the holidays every year. They are almost a Christmas tradition in my family. My grandfather liked them, my father likes them and I like them. There always ends up being a lot of boxes of chocolate turtles under the Christmas tree and it is almost a competition to see who gets the most. (It doesn't help that I usually give away more boxes than I receive...)
When I came across the concept of chocolate turtle cookies on Baking and Boys I immediatly bookmarked the page and filed it away for next year. Now that the holidays are finally here it was time to make some chocolate turtle cookies! These chocolate turtle cookies are essentially a chocolate thumbprint cookie that is covered with chopped pecan pieces and filled with caramel and then topped with a pecan. (Katrina even drizzled hers in chocolate for even more chocolaty goodness!) The recipe as pretty easy to follow with the only thing out of the ordinary being some chilling time in the fridge for the dough before baking. I always seem to have this problem when making cookies where the recipe says that it will make 24 cookies and I only end up with about 12 cookies. I guess I just like my cookies large. Most of the recipes that I found called for melting the soft caramel candies for the caramel filling but since I had just made some dulce de leche I went with that instead. The chocolate turtle cookies turned out really well! The cookie was a nice and light and cakey and it went really well with the pecans and dulce de leche. I will definitely be making these for years to come!
I am now a dozen chocolate turtles in the lead! I will have to get the next batch into the oven as soon as possible to widen the gap! :) Unfortunately I don't think many will survive long enough to make it under the tree as they are disappearing rather quickly. They are like and endangered species.
Chocolate Turtle Cookies
(makes 12-24 cookies)Printable Recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter (softened)
2/3 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans (finely chopped)
2 egg whites
24 teaspoons dulce de leche (or caramel)
24 pecan halves
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter (softened)
2/3 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans (finely chopped)
2 egg whites
24 teaspoons dulce de leche (or caramel)
24 pecan halves
Directions:
1. Mix the flour, cocoa and salt in a bowl.
2. Beet the butter and sugar until fluffy.
3. Beat in the egg yolk, milk and vanilla.
4. Mix in the flour mixture.
5. Cover and refrigerate for an hour.
6. Whisk the egg whites until frothy.
7. Form the dough into 1 inch balls.
8. Dip the balls in the egg white and then in the pecans.
9. Place the balls on a parchment lined baking sheet with the pecans face up.
10. Indent the center of the balls with a teaspoon.
11. Bake in a preheated 350F oven until set, about 10-12 minutes rotating the baking pan in the middle.
12. Fill each cookie with a teaspoon of dulce de leche and top with a pecan.
1. Mix the flour, cocoa and salt in a bowl.
2. Beet the butter and sugar until fluffy.
3. Beat in the egg yolk, milk and vanilla.
4. Mix in the flour mixture.
5. Cover and refrigerate for an hour.
6. Whisk the egg whites until frothy.
7. Form the dough into 1 inch balls.
8. Dip the balls in the egg white and then in the pecans.
9. Place the balls on a parchment lined baking sheet with the pecans face up.
10. Indent the center of the balls with a teaspoon.
11. Bake in a preheated 350F oven until set, about 10-12 minutes rotating the baking pan in the middle.
12. Fill each cookie with a teaspoon of dulce de leche and top with a pecan.
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Cranberry Turtle Bars
To see all of the participating bloggers, and to learn more about the cookie giveaways, please visit the Baker's Dozen home site at www.13CookieChristmas.info.
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