Turtle Thumbprints
Ingredients
2 cups
confectioners' sugar, sifted
2 cups
Kowalski's Unsalted Butter, at room temperature
2
eggs, separated
¼ cup
milk
2 tsp.
Kowalski's Organic Madagascar Vanilla Extract
2 ½ cups
flour
1 cup
unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp.
kosher salt
2 ½ cups
chopped pecans
12 ¼ oz. jar
caramel sauce
7 oz. pkg.
Baker's Dipping Chocolate (Semi-Sweet or Milk Chocolate)
1
small zipper-closure freezer bag
Directions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat sugar and butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until creamy.
- Add egg yolks, milk and vanilla; beat until thoroughly combined.
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, cocoa and salt; add to butter mixture, beating until blended.
- Refrigerate dough until slightly firm (about 1 hr.).
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In a small bowl, beat egg whites with a fork.
- Shape rounded tablespoons of dough into 1 ½" balls; dip balls into egg white, then roll in nuts.
- Place 1" apart on parchment-lined baking sheets; press thumb into center of each cookie to make an indentation.
- Bake in preheated oven until set (10-12 min.); quickly remake indentations with a rounded ½ tsp. measuring spoon, if necessary.
- Remove from oven; carefully transfer cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
- Fill each cookie with ½ tsp. caramel topping.
- Place chocolate discs in freezer bag; microwave according to pkg. directions, squeezing bag every 15 sec. until completely melted.
- Using scissors, snip a small corner off the bag. Drizzle melted chocolate over cookies; let chocolate set.
- Store cookies in an airtight container in the refrigerator up to several days.
Tasty Tip:
- The plastic cork from a wine bottle will make perfect indentations in each cookie.