Turtles Cookies I Food

TURTLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Microwave butter on high until melted. Add chocolate chips and milk; microwave until chips are melted, stirring every 30 seconds. Stir in vanilla. Add flour; mix well. Stir in pecans and caramel bits., Drop dough by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake until edges are set, 7-9 minutes. Cool on pans 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely., For icing, microwave chocolate chips and shortening on high until melted. Drizzle over cooled cookies. Store in an airtight container.

TURTLE-SHAPED COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, vanilla and maple flavoring. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Refrigerate for 2-3 hours or until firm. , Shape dough into 1-in. balls. Place on lightly greased baking sheets. Push four pecan pieces into each ball for legs; add two small pecan pieces to each for head and tail. , Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until edges are set. Carefully remove to wire racks to cool completely. , In a small saucepan, melt chocolate and butter with milk. Remove from the heat; stir in confectioners' sugar. Dip top of each cookie into glaze. Sprinkle with chopped pecans.

TURTLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine dry cake mix, water, oil and eggs, mixing well and set aside.
• Arrange pecans in clusters of 3 on greased baking sheets.
• Shape dough into 1 inch balls.
• Center each on a cluster of pecans and flatten slightly.
• Bake 8-10 minutes at 375*.
• Cool and frost.
• FROSTING: Sift powdered sugar and cocoa, set aside. Cream butter and vanilla, then add the powdered sugar mixture and milk alternately until desired consistency.

TURTLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Sift together dry ingredients.
• Cream butter and brown sugar; add egg yolk.
• Blend in vanilla and mix well.
• Gradually add dry ingredients and blend.
• Arrange pecans in groups of 3 on greased cookie sheet (1 for the head and 2 for the flippers).
• Mold dough into balls and dip bottoms in unbeaten egg white.
• Place on the pecans as the turtle body.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
• Cool.
• Frost with chocolate frosting (your favorite recipe or canned).

TURTLES® COOKIES II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Stir in the vanilla, then the flour.
• Roll the dough into walnut sized balls, roll the balls in the egg whites, then roll them in the chopped pecans. Place the cookies 1 1/2 inches apart on an unprepared cookie sheet. Using your finger, make an indention in the center of each cookie.
• Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, until bottom of cookies are lightly browned.
• When the cookies come out of the oven fill the indentation with the caramel filling, and let cool. Pour about 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons of chocolate over each cookie to cover the caramel center. Let stand until chocolate is set.

TURTLE COOKIE RECIPE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375ºF.
• Beat cake mix, egg, 1-1/2 cups COOL WHIP and 1/3 cup caramel bits in large bowl with mixer until blended. (Dough will be stiff.)
• Shape into 32 balls, using about 2 tsp. dough for each ball.
• Place, 2 inches apart, on baking sheets sprayed with cooking spray; press nut into top of each ball.
• Bake 8 min. or just until edges of cookies are set. (Do not overbake.) Cool on baking sheet 2 min. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
• Microwave remaining COOL WHIP and caramel bits in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1 min.; stir. Microwave additional 30 sec. or until caramel bits are completely melted and mixture is well blended when stirred. Drizzle over cooled cookies. Let stand until firm.