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Caramel Apple Bites

FILLING:
1/3 cup chopped unpeeled apple
1/3 cup evaporated milk
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup chopped walnuts
DOUGH:
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups all-purpose flour
TOPPING:
1 package (14 ounces) caramels
2/3 cup evaporated milk
Green toothpicks
1 cup chopped walnuts

In a small saucepan, combine filling ingredients. Cook and stir over medium heat

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until thickened; set aside to cool. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars.
Add egg, vanilla and salt; beat well. Add flour; mix well. Shape dough into 1-in.
balls. Flatten and place 1/4 teaspoon filling in center of each. Fold dough over
filling and reshape into balls. Place 1 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Bake
at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to
cool. In a saucepan over low heat, cook caramels are melted. Insert a toothpick
into each cookie and dip into caramel until completely coated. Dip bottoms into
nuts. Place on wire racks to set.

Yield: about 3 dozen.