Caramel Apple Cookies
A Betty Crocker betty-crocker-cookies recipe for Caramel Apple Cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine -- softened
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Red paste food color, if desired
- About 24 wooden sticks with rounded ends
- 1 (14 ounce) package vanilla caramels
- 1/4 cup water
Instructions
- 1
Heat oven to 400º.
- 2
Beat sugar, butter and shortening in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon.
- 3
Stir in vanilla and eggs.
- 4
Stir in flour, baking soda and salt.
- 5
Stir in food color to tint dough red.
- 6
Roll dough 1/4 inch thick on lightly floured cloth-covered surface.
- 7
Cut with 3-inch round or apple-shaped cookie cutter. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Insert wooden stick into side of each cookie.
- 8
Bake 8 to 9 minutes or until edges are light brown.
- 9
Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
- 10
Cool completely.
- 11
Spread top third of each cookie (opposite wooden stick) with Caramel Glaze.
- 12
Hold cookie upright to allow glaze to drizzle down cookie.