Recipe - Caramel-Filled Chocolate Cookies

1 cup Butter or margarine;
softened
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Firmly packed brown sugar
2 lg Eggs
2 One fourth cup Allpurpose flour
Three fourths cup Cocoa
1 teaspoon Baking soda
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 cup Chopped pecans; divided
1 tablespoon Sugar
2 pack (5.3ounce) chewy caramels
in milk chocolate

Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually
add sugars, beating well. Add eggs, beating well.

Stir together flour, cocoa, and soda; add to butter mixture, mixing well.
Stir in vanilla and One half cup pecans. Cover and chill 1 hour.

Combine remaining One half cup pecans and 1 tablespoon sugar; set aside. Gently
press 1 tablespoon cookie dough around each candy, forming a ball. Dip 1
side of cookie in pecan mixture. Place, pecan side up, 2 inches apart on
ungreased baking sheets.

Bake at 375° for 8 minutes. (Cookies will look soft.) Cool 1 minute on
baking sheets. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Makes 4 dozen.

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Recipe by: Southern Living Magazine

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #1031 by Suzy Wert SuzyWert@aol.com on Jan
22, 1998