Caramel-Pecan Snappers

• sugar↗3⁄4 cup
• shortening↗1⁄4 cup
• butter or 1/4 cup margarine↗1⁄4 cup
• vanilla↗1 teaspoon
• egg↗1
• all-purpose flour↗1 3⁄4 cups
• cream of tartar↗3⁄4 teaspoon
• baking soda↗3⁄4 teaspoon
• salt↗1⁄4 teaspoon
• chopped pecans3⁄4 cup
• caramels36

  unwrapped

• milk↗2 tablespoons
• hershey semi-sweet chocolate chips↗1 cup

  melted cooled

Step-by-step instructions

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.