Recipe For Cooking Caramel Apple Cookies
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Caramel Apple Cookies
Posted by Tiffany at recipegoldmine.com 4:11:55pm 9/16/03
This recipe came on a recipe card from Great American Cookie Collection addressed to my 4 YEAR OLD!
Makes approximately 2 dozen
3 C. flour
1 Tbsp. apple pie spice
1/2 tea. baking soda
1/2 tea. salt
1 C. butter, softened
1/2 C. packed brown sugar
1/2 C. sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 tea. vanilla extract or flavoring
Red and green food coloring pastes
24 green wooden craft sticks
1 (14 oz.) pkg. caramels
3 Tbsp. water
1/3 C. chopped cashews
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
In a med. bowl, combine flour, apple pie spice, baking soda and salt.
In a lrg. bowl, using a mixer set on high, beat butter and both sugars until fluffy. With mixer on low, beat in eggs and vanilla extract or flavoring; beat in flour mixture.
Remove 1/3 C. of dough to a sm. mixing bowl; tint green. Tint remaining dough red; divide in half.
On a lightly floured surface, roll half of the red dough to a 1/4-in. thickness. Using an apple-shaped template or cookie cutter, cut dough into shapes; place 3 in. apart on an unprepared cookie sheet. Place a craft stick under "stem" end of each cookie, pressing dough lightly. Using your fingers, mold a sm. piece of green dough into a leaf shape and place on top of each apple cutout on cookie sheet. Repeat rolling and cutting process with remaining dough. Bake until crisp but not browned, 8 to 10 min. Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
In a sm. saucepan, heat caramels and water over low heat, stirring often, until smooth. Set a wire rack over a wax papered cookie sheet. Dip the cookie bottoms into melted caramel and then into chopped nuts. Let cookies stand until caramel is set, about 1 hr..
To store cookies, be sure the caramel is completely set and wrap each cookie individually in waxed paper. Do not try to stack the cookies before the caramel has hardened.
Tip: For a favorite teacher, attach halved spearmint leaf candies and pipe a stem and message on the apple with melted chocolate.
