If you like pecans, caramel, and chocolate, and also if you like bite-size cookies, your answer is these Pecan Caramel Thumbprint Cookies. These cookies are very delicious, and also very pretty to put in your Christmas cookie box.

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About This Recipe

These little gem-like cookies are easy to make but loaded with different flavors, and textures. From the flavors of chocolate and pecans to the rich and decadent flavor of caramel, this recipe is a celebration of flavors!
As far as the texture goes, these cookies are somewhere between crunchy cookies to the soft caramel filling.
This recipe comes together very easily and no chilling time is involved! yay!
These Pecan Caramel Thumbprint Cookies contain some cocoa powder which gives these cookies a soft chocolaty flavor.
You can use different kinds of nuts such as walnut, or almond in this recipe. I personally love the taste of pecans.
There is one egg yolk in this recipe, and the egg yolk acts like glue and binds the ingredients together.
The filling is pure creamy caramel. Get the recipe here; Caramel Sauce. The other options for the filling are chocolate ganache or jelly.
These cookies finish off with a milk chocolate drizzle. This gives the cookies a beautiful look and some extra chocolate flavor.

How To Make These Pecan Caramel Thumbprint Cookies

Sift all the dry ingredients including the cocoa powder.

Beat the softened butter with sugar until soft and fluffy and well combined.
Add in the egg yolk and vanilla extract and beat well.
Next switch to a rubber spatula and mix in the flour in two batches.
Fold in the crushed nuts, and gently mix.
Make small balls out of the dough, the size of a walnut in the shell.

Roll each ball of dough into the crushed nuts and place on the lined baking sheets. Using a round ½ teaspoon to make a dent in the center of each ball.
Bake the cookies, and when they come out of the oven, the dent that you made is almost gone. Take the same teaspoon and press it into the center of the cookies and make the dent deeper.
Let the cookies cool completely, then fill each dent with caramel sausce.
Melt the milk chocolate and pour it into a piping bag with a tiny tip hole. Drizzle the chocolate all over the cookies.

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Pecan Caramel Thumbprint Cookies

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Total Time 20

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings Cookies

Calories 123 kcal

Ingredients

1 cup All-purpose flour, Spooned and leveled
¼ cup+2 tsp Cocoa powder, Sifted
¼ teaspoon Baking powder
¼ teaspoon Salt
½ cup Butter, Softened
½ cup Granulated sugar
1 Egg yolk
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 cup Pecans, Toasted, crushed, and divided

For The Filling

¾ cup Caramel sauce
¼ cup Milk chocolate, Melted

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375°F, and line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
Sift all dry ingredients and set them aside.
1 cup All-purpose flour, ¼ cup+2 teaspoon Cocoa powder, ¼ teaspoon Baking powder, ¼ teaspoon Salt
Using a hand mixer, mix the soft butter and sugar until creamy and soft.
½ cup Butter, ½ cup Granulated sugar
Add in the egg yolk and vanilla extract and mix well.
1 Egg yolk, 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
Using a spatula fold in the dry ingredients and mix.
Fold in ¾ cup of the crushed pecans into the cookie dough, and save the rest for rolling.
1 cup Pecans
make small balls out of the cookie dough and roll each ball into the remaining crushed pecans. Use the back of a round teaspoon and make a dent in the center of each cookie. Place them on the baking sheet and leave an inch between them.
Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the sides look set. While the cookies are still hor go into their center with the same teaspoon and make the dent deeper.
Let them cool down completely then fill each dent with a teaspoon of caramel sauce.
¾ cup Caramel sauce
Let the caramel set and harden a bit. Melt the chocolate and pour it into the piping bag. Make a small hole at the end of the piping bag and drizzle the chocolate over the cookies and let the chocolate set.
¼ cup Milk chocolate

Nutrition

Calories: 123kcalCarbohydrates: 11gProtein: 1gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 22mgSodium: 73mgPotassium: 35mgFiber: 1gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 161IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 13mgIron: 0.5mg

Keyword Caramel Cookies, COOKIES, Pecan Cookies, Thumbprint Cookies

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