Easy Turtle Tassies

Steps

• 1

  Preheat oven to 375°F. Prepare 24 mini muffin cups with cooking spray.
• 2

  Shape the dough into 24 1-inch balls. Press each ball into the bottom of a mini muffin cup, then use your fingers to carefully press the dough up the sides to form little cup shapes.
• 3

  Bake 8-9 minutes, or until the edges begin to brown. The middles of the cups will likely bubble up to look like cupcakes. Remove the pan from the oven, and use a spoon to flatten out the bubbles, and reshape the dough to look like cups. (Try not to poke holes in the bottoms, though!)
• 4

  Bake for an additional 3-5 minutes, until the bottom of the cookie dough is cooked and the edges are golden brown. Remove from oven.
• 5

  While the cookie cups are doing their final round of baking, place the caramel dip in the microwave for 1 minute or so, until the dip is warm and easy to scoop.
• 6

  Immediately after removing the cookie cups, place about a teaspoon of chocolate chips in the bottom of each cookie cup, and then spoon in a tablespoon or so of warm caramel on top of each cup until the chocolate chips are covered.
• 7

  Once all of the cups are filled with chocolate and caramel, top with a pinch of chopped pecans.
• 8

  Let cookie cups cool to room temperature. Then remove from pan carefully with a thin spatula or spoon.