Try our delicious caramel turtle cookie recipe and turn your leftover Halloween candy into a delightful treat.
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Creating the Caramel Turtle Cookie Recipe
We created this recipe to use up leftover candy, using our basic chocolate chip cookie recipe. Instead of chocolate chips, we chopped up some leftover chocolate covered caramel turtles.
A caramel turtle is a candy made of caramel, chocolate, and pecans, shaped like a turtle. It is a sweet, nutty candy that is popular during the holiday season.
Don’t ask how we could possibly have leftover caramel turtles – it’s a long story. The point is that this recipe is a good one for “add ins” – all those things you add into the batter after it is mixed together. Nuts, raisins and chocolate chips are the usual things to add, but after Halloween we use up some of the leftover Halloween candy. Candies made of chocolate, caramel, nuts and peanut butter work really well.
Method for making the Caramel Turtle Cookie Recipe
The caramel turtle cookies are made using the batter method where the sugar, nut oil, eggs and other wet ingredients are stirred together before adding the dry ingredients.
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RECIPE
Equipment
- scale
- Silicone mat
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Ingredients
- 290 grams King Arthur unbleached all purpose flour use King Arthur gluten-free measure for measure flour to make this recipe gluten-free
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1 teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt if unsalted butter is used
- 100 grams caramel turtles roughly chopped into 3/4 inch pieces.
- 200 grams Valrhona milk chocolate pieces roughly chopped in half
- 165 grams La Tourangelle Pecan oil
- 1 teaspoon Sorghum syrup
- 2 large eggs one whole egg and one egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons Heilala alcohol free vanilla extract use alcohol free Heilala to make this recipe halal
Instructions
- Gather all the ingredients on the counter an hour before starting and allow them to come to room temperature.
- Place a medium sized bowl on the scale. Measure in the flours, salt, and baking soda and stir.
- Add the chopped turtles and chocolate to the flour and stir to combine.
- Place a medium sized bowl on the scale and measure in the nut oil, sugar, and sorghum syrup, eggs and vanilla, zeroing the scale for each measurement. Stir, wait 5 minutes and stir again.
- Wait 5 minutes, then add the flour mixture to the batter and mix just until all the flour is incorporated. Do not overwork the batter.
- Cover with plastic wrap directly on the batter to make an airtight seal. Refrigerate the dough overnight.
- When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees, using an oven thermometer to make sure of the temperature.
- Using a scale, scoop out cookies that are 2 ounces in size. Place them on parchment paper on the baking sheets, leaving a two inch space between each.
- Bake 1 tray at a time. Bake until cookies are golden brown and still puffy, and centers are still soft, about 10 to 15 minutes, rotating the baking sheet halfway through baking.
- Allow the cookies to cool for 5 minutes and then transfer them to a wire rack. If possible, allow them to cool before serving.
Notes
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