Chocolate Turtle Cookies

Chocolate Turtle Cookies are a fanciful cookie packed full of pecans, caramel and chocolate and will quickly become a favorite.

Prep: 15 min | Bake: 11 min

Ingredients

• 1 2/3 cups (about 100) shelled pecans
• 1 (16.5 ounce) package Nestlé® Toll House® Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough*
• 20 caramels (unwrapped)
• 2 tablespoons milk

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Soak pecans in water for 5 minutes.
3. Arrange 5 pecans on ungreased cookie sheets (1 for head, 4 for legs), leaving about a 1 inch circle in center.
4. Shape slightly rounded tablespoons of cookie dough into balls; place over circle onto pecans.
5. Repeat with remaining pecans and dough, placing turtles two inches apart on cookie sheets.
6. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are crisp.
7. Cool on cookie sheets on wire racks for 1 minute; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
8. Microwave caramels and milk in medium, micro-safe bowl on HIGH (100%) power for 1 1/2 minutes; stir.
9. Microwave at additional 10 to 15 second intervals, stirring until smooth. Drizzle over turtles.

Notes

* Dough from one batch Original Nestlé® Toll House® Chocolate Chip Cookies (Nestlé® Toll House® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels 6-ounce package recipe) may be used.

Attribution

Recipe and photo used with permission from: Nestlé® and meals.com