Turtle Chocolate Chip Cookies

These Turtle chocolate chip cookies have everything you love about the classic candy. They're soft, chewy, and loaded with chocolate, caramel, and pecans!

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Course: Desserts

Cuisine: American

Keyword: turtle chocolate chip cookies

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 10

Additional Time: 5

Total Time: 25

Servings: cookies

Calories: 586kcal

Author: Louisa

Equipment

Ingredients

Turtle chocolate chip cookies:

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup caramel bits
1/2 cup chopped pecans

Toppings:

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
Semi-sweet chocolate chips
Caramel bits
Pecan halves

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350ºF and line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
In a large bowl, beat the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Once the last egg is fully incorporated, stir in the vanilla extract until smooth.
Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture, mixing until a soft dough forms. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
Gently fold in the chocolate chips, caramel bits, and pecans until evenly distributed.
Scoop the dough using a medium cookie scoop and place the dough balls about 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. You can press more chocolate chips, pecans, and caramel bits onto each dough ball.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the edges are lightly golden but the centers are still soft.
Let the cookies cool on the baking sheets for 5 to 7 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Top with pecan halves and drizzle with melted chocolate before serving. Enjoy!

Notes

Make sure to measure your flour correctly and remove the Turtle chocolate chip cookies from the oven while their centers are still soft!
To keep them from falling apart, let the Turtle cookies set on the baking sheet before transferring them to a wire rack.
Add a gooey caramel surprise to your chocolate chip Turtle cookies by pressing soft caramel candies into the center of larger dough balls. Then, pinch the dough over the caramels and reroll before baking.

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