Caramel-Pecan Snappers

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup shortening
• 1/4 cup butter or 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

Directions

1. 1

   heat oven to 350 in large bowl ,beat sugar,shortening, butter,vanilla and egg with mixer stir in dry ingredients.

2. 2

   shape dough into 1in balls on ungreased cookie sheet 3in apart

3. 3

   with greased bottem of glass dipped into sugar flatten balls slightly press 1 teaspoon pecans onto each cookie.

4. 4

   bake 9-10 and remove from oven place on cooling rack.

5. 5

   in small microwavable bowl, microwave caramels and milk uncovered on high 2-3 minutes stirring every minute until smooth

6. 6

   spoon caramel over cookies top with melted cooled chocolate

7. 7

   cool completely about 30 minutes minutes.