Chocolate Fudge Turtle Cookies + Salted Caramel Drizzle

Chocolate Fudge Turtle Cookies with Salted Carmel Drizzle! Just one of my favorite holiday cookies:)

So..I made these in a hurry and didn’t have time to properly photograph them. I thought they were worth sharing anyway 🙂

Christmas cookies are so fun to make and this is one of my favorite recipes!

They are easy to make and taste like a bite-size brownie with fudgy icing, salted caramel, and toasted pecans..The icing is amazing although it needs a little time to set up. I would recommend 3-4 hours or overnight. My Peppermint Hot Chocolate would go great with these! This will be my last Christmas recipe. Next will be healthy recipes for January.

I really hope that everyone will have very happy holidays and take time to make cookies. You will not regret it!!

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Chocolate Fudge Turtle Cookies + Salted Caramel Drizzle

Author Damaris

Ingredients

• 1 box double chocolate fudge cake mix
• 1 tbsp water
• 2 tbsp oil
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups whole pecan halves

Instructions

• Combine cake mix and next three ingredients. Mix well.
• Line a baking sheet pan with parchment paper. Arrange pecans in clusters of three.
• Shape dough into approximately one inch balls. I used a small cookie scoop which made this really fast. Center each ball on one pecan cluster.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes. Let cool and spread with chocolate frosting.
• Chocolate Frosting:

  1 Tablespoon oil

  2 Tablespoons baking cocoa

  1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

  1 cup powdered sugar

  2 Tablespoons milk
• In small bowl combine all ingredients adding milk alternately until it reaches a good spreading consistency.
• Spread each cookie with frosting. Cut the corner from a ziplock bag. Pour about 4 Tablespoons Salted Caramel into bag. Snip the corner and drizzle onto each cookie. If not using caramel a small sprinkle of salt across the top of each cookie is great also!