Chocolate Caramel Sandwiches Recipe

How to make it

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• A night or two before you plan on making the cookies, you are going to make the easiest,most flavorful caramel in the universe that you'll eventually spread on the cookies.
• Take the paper off of the can.
• Add to a large pot of boiling water , making sure they are submerged the entire time.
• Turn down to a simmer and leave for 21/2 hours.
• Cool
• After 2 1/2 hours put in the fridge (after they've cooled down a bit) for at least over night and no longer than a week.
• Preheat the oven to 350F and lightly grease cookie sheets.
• Take the can of caramel out of the fridge to bring it up to room temperature.
• Sift flour and cocoa powder.
• Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Add orange juice and eggs and combine.
• Add dry ingredients slowly and combine until smooth Should look like frosting.
• Put mixture into a pastry bag with a large flat tip. Pipe into overlapping ribbons, about 4-5 per cookie.
• space them out or you will have to cut them apart
• Put into oven for about 5 minutes. Check to see that they are not burning.
• When the liquid middle begins to harden, take cookies out .
• Remove from cookie sheet carefully and put on cooling racks to cool completely (the cookies are a little flimsy at this stage and you will melt the caramel too much if you spread it on now).
• Now open the cooled milk cans. you will have the sweet sweet caramel.
• When completely cool, spread the caramel over one cookie and make a sandwich with another cookie. How much caramel you use depends on how much you like..
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• glaze:
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• To make the glaze, chop the four blocks of chocolate with a serrated knife or a chocolate fork if you have one.
• Add to a glass or metal bowl over a pot of simmering water
• add 4 tbsp pf butter.
• Once melted completely and smooth, spoon over one side of the cookies.
• Put cookies in the fridge for the glaze to harden, then enjoy