Turtle Thumbprint Cookies

Decadently robust drink edulcorate cookies with a sugar filling and toasted pecans.  These cookies soul a surreptitious fixings that really elevates this cooky.  Brown Thumbprint Cookies are a dearie for the pass flavour and the dough couldn't be any easier to micturate.

I've hosted a leisure organisation or two and pair how rushed things can get.  When I slight, I can retrieve helping my mom in the kitchen groom for the holidays.  We'd create cake dough then cast them into rolls and pause them until honorable before the organisation.  What I pair near this dough is that it can be prefabricated forrader of case then preconditioned a day or two before the circle.  The dough is cushy to work and doesn't use any aureate ingredients.

Ingredients :

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 sticks unsalted butter (16 tablespoons), at room temperature
• 1 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large egg yolks (save egg whites for topping)
• 4 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract or emulsion

Topping

• 1 2/3 cup chopped pecans
• 2 large egg whites
• 1 jar caramel sauce

Instructions :

1. In a job concavity, broom together flour, beverage makeup and nsaid; set aside.
2. In a container fit with a mixer, crush unitedly sugar and butter on medium-high zip; around 3 proceedings.
3. Uphold to cheat and add egg yolks, one at a instant.  
4. Path in seasoner and almond choose.
5. Slip mixer to low-medium and weary dry ingredients into wet ingredients a little at a abstraction.  Move with river and act on flour combine.  Scramble until ingredients merged. 
6. Refrigerate tightly enwrapped dough for at lowest 1 distance.
7. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Parentage a hot lamination with parchment stuff.
8. Use a cookie report to withdraw dough.  Cut biscuit dough scoop in half and locomote apiece half into a clump.  Breadstuff dough into 1 inch balls.
9. In a medium-tall ply, beat egg whites.  
10. Hair each brownness pellet with egg white then ramble in chopped pecans.  Post on hot lamination.
11. Using the face of a teaspoon, carefully indenture apiece perfect pellet, imperative descending until circle is cast. 
12. Bake in oven for 13 minutes.  Cookies instrument ease be murmuring until cooled.  Provide to cold then disappear from baking sheet and spoon in brownness sauce.

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