Caramel-pecan Snappers

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup shortening
• 1/4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup chopped pecans
• 36 caramels, unwrapped
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 cup hershey semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted cooled

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350 in large bowl ,beat sugar,shortening, butter,vanilla and egg with mixer stir in dry ingredients.
• 2 shape dough into 1in balls on ungreased cookie sheet 3in apart
• 3 with greased bottem of glass dipped into sugar flatten balls slightly press 1 teaspoon pecans onto each cookie.
• 4 bake 9-10 and remove from oven place on cooling rack.
• 5 in small microwavable bowl, microwave caramels and milk uncovered on high 2-3 minutes stirring every minute until smooth
• 6 spoon caramel over cookies top with melted cooled chocolate
• 7 cool completely about 30 minutes minutes.