I had to try a couple of versions of these before I got them right. The challenge for me was getting that butter/brown sugar flavor in a cookie. I tried wrapping the dough around "Sugar Babies" candy, but they just tasted like weird jelly beans in the middle of a cookie--no good. I also tried the plain square caramels, but they also ended up a little too hard once cooled. I finally landed on Rolos. That's right, Rolos--those little chocolate covered caramels that come in the tube, wrapped in gold foil--what's not to love.
German Chocolate Cookies
Recipe tip--you'll get dough all over your fingers making these, so unwrap 18 - 20 Rolos first (16 - 18 for the cookies, plus a couple to eat while the cookies bake).
1 box of German chocolate cake mix
1/2 cup of soy milk (or real milk)
1/2 cup sweetened shredded coconut
1/2 cup chopped pecans
18 - 20 Rolos, unwrapped
Preheat oven to 350
Mix the cake mix and the milk together first with a big spoon, then mix in the coconut and pecans. The dough should be just moist enough to stick together. Take a ping pong size glob of dough, stick a Rolo in it, then with your fingers, spread the dough around the bottom of the Rolo until there is no evidence that the Rolo is there.
Bake for 14 - 16 minutes. Let cool for a minute, then remove from cookie sheet to complete cooling. Eat at least 2 while still warm--they rock.
Makes 16 - 18 cookies
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