Caramel-Pecan Snappers

• 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

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

sugar, shortening, butter, vanilla, egg, allpurpose, cream of tartar, baking soda, salt, pecans, caramels, milk, semisweet chocolate chips

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/caramel-pecan-snappers-343379 (may not work)