These insanely delicious turtle cookies start with a chocolate batter and are loaded with caramel pieces, pecans, and chocolate chips.
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time15 minutesmins
Total Time30 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: chocolate pecan cookies, turtle cookies
Servings: 16cookies
Author: Beth
Ingredients
1 ¼cupsall purpose flour
¼cupnatural unsweetened cocoa powder
½tspsalt
½tspbaking soda
1stickunsalted butter, softened1/2 cup
½cupbrown sugar
½cupgranulated sugar
1largeegg
1tspvanilla extract
½cupsemi-sweet chocolate chipsregular or mini size
½cupchopped caramel squaresuse a knife to cut into small pieces
½cupchopped pecans
Instructions
Cut the caramel squares into small pieces with a knife.
Combine the chocolate chips, chopped pecans, and caramel pieces in a bowl, mix. Reserve 1/2 cup for the outside of the cookie dough balls.
Preheat the oven to 350º F. Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat.
In a small bowl, mix together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking soda.
In a mixing bowl cream the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until fluffy, 1 minute. Add in the egg and vanilla, beat again. Add the flour mixture and the add ins (minus the 1/2 cup you're reserving) to the wet mixture, mix with a spatula (or on low with a mixer) just until everything is combined
Use a cookie scoop to form dough balls. Press the 1/2 cup of add-ins on the outside of the dough balls. This is optional but I like the way the cookies look when you can see the chocolate chips, caramel puddles and pecans on top.
Place the cookies 3 inches apart on a silicone lined baking sheet and bake for 10-14 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on the sheet for 10 minutes before moving to a cooling rack.
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Notes
For the cookies in the photos, the dough balls were about 3 tbsp, so that’s a large cookie! I baked those for 12-14 minutes – just until the edge of the cookie would begin to look puffy. The result is a soft & chewy chocolate caramel pecan cookie!If you make smaller dough balls, you should reduce the baking time otherwise the cookies will be over done.