This is a family favorite cookie recipe that we have been making for years. It was a $2,000 winner in the 1990 Bake-off. How can you go wrong with the combination of chocolate and caramel. These cookies are better if slightly underbaked. I’m not a nut lover, and omit the nuts.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups flour Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose or Unbleached Flour
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 cup margarine or butter, softened
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 48 Rolo® Chewy Caramels in Milk Chocolate, unwrapped (from 13-oz. pkg.)
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 4 oz. vanilla-flavored candy coating, if desired
Directions
- In medium bowl, combine flour, cocoa and baking soda; mix well.
- In large bowl, combine 1 cup sugar, brown sugar and margarine; beat until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and eggs; beat well. Add flour mixture; blend well. Stir in 1/2 cup of the pecans. If necessary, cover with plastic wrap; refrigerate 30 minutes for easier handling.
- Heat oven to 375°F. For each cookie, with floured hands, shape about 1 tablespoon dough around 1 caramel candy, covering completely.
- In small bowl, combine remaining 1/2 cup pecans and 1 tablespoon sugar. Press one side of each ball into pecan mixture. Place, nut side up, 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake at 375°F. for 7 to 10 minutes or until set and slightly cracked. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets. Cool on wire rack for 15 minutes or until completely cooled.
- Melt candy coating in small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly until smooth. Drizzle over cookies.
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I love to bake, especially cookies, cakes, and pies. I’ll post my adventures in the kitchen, my favorite new recipes, as well as our family favorites.
oh these look delicious! I love the rolo in the middle! I just finished looking at my Martha Stewart Cookie book again. I am trying to decide what cookie to make next! With the weather cooling down on us some here I’m starting to think fall.
YUM! Thanks for sharing. These look fabulous.
I love your blog!
Wow, those look so good! I love the idea of sandwich cookies, where the filling is baked in. What a fun surprise to bite into!
oh wow those look so good! i will be trying these!
Those cookies look like a must try to me! I can see why they won a prize at the Bake-off!
My daughter would go nuts for these Rolo filled cookies. love the white drizzle. It makes them look so special!
I can see why these won! I just put your wonderful blog in my reader.
I was actually just thinking of the caramel filled cookies I made awhile back, and how someone had suggested this recipe to me. I went back and looked, and it was you! This must really be a winner!!
Don’t cookies just make you happy??? These look delicious. I’ve been looking for inspiration for my Bake Sale Week on my blog. Maybe I could do some sort of caramel brownie. Mmmm. Who knows. Keep up the great work on your blog!
Thanks
What inspires you in the kitchen? I usually get a lot of ideas all at once but then at other times I draw a blank.
Thanks for all the nice comments. I hope you give them a try.
Jaime -cookies definitely make me happy! A caramel brownie sounds delicious!
Katie – Sometimes I get inspired by a dish I order in a restaurant, or a fruit or vegetable at the store that looks delicious. Often it’s a recipe in a magazine that I can’t resist.
No wonder they got an award. They look delish!
You absolutely can’t go wrong with this combination. This looks fantastic!
I have a chocolate, rolo cookie that is very similar, but not quite the same. I have a bag waiting for me to use them!
These are awesome! Made them this morning and took them for to a friend (kept a few for tasting) and kinda regret giving them away…off to get another package of Rolos to make again! These are TDF!! OMG! Thanks for sharing!
I love the caramel centre, it’s no wonder these won an award, there was instant lust when I saw these!
These look amazing, I loved them!!
Just wanted to let you know I posted about these today!
Amazing! Loved them! I drizzeled white chocolate on them the first time. The second time I pressed them with the bottom of a glass that had a flower like design then placed a pecan in the center on melted chocolate. Yumm yumm! Thanks for sharing!!
Deanna – great idea. Makes it almost like a turtle cookie. Thanks for letting me know!