Caramel-Pecan Snappers - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup shortening
1/4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup chopped pecans
36 caramels, unwrapped
2 tablespoons milk
1 cup hershey semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted cooled

Preparation

heat oven to 350 in large bowl ,beat sugar,shortening, butter,vanilla and egg with mixer stir in dry ingredients.
shape dough into 1in balls on ungreased cookie sheet 3in apart
with greased bottem of glass dipped into sugar flatten balls slightly press 1 teaspoon pecans onto each cookie.
bake 9-10 and remove from oven place on cooling rack.
in small microwavable bowl, microwave caramels and milk uncovered on high 2-3 minutes stirring every minute until smooth
spoon caramel over cookies top with melted cooled chocolate
cool completely about 30 minutes minutes.