Tootsie Roll® cookies

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These chocolate Tootsie Roll® cookies take the forgotten and sometimes disregarded Tootsie Roll® to a whole new level. Take the humble Tootsie Roll from zero to hero with these homemade chocolate thumbprint cookies filled with an easy to make Tootsie Roll® ganache and sprinkled with sea salt.

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These are some dang good cookies! Let me just go ahead and through that out there but these these little Tootsie Roll Cookies are delicious!

It took me a few trial and errors in cookie testing before I got these beautiful chocolate cookies just right but oh man was it worth it! Let me show you how I make these Tootsie cookies!

What you need for Tootsie Roll Cookies: (amounts in recipe)

unsalted butter, softened
Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
Dixie Crystals Light Brown Sugar
egg
vanilla extract
all-purpose flour
cocoa powder
baking soda
salt
Tootsie Roll® Midgees, unwrapped
whole milk or heavy cream
ea salt for garnish if desired

Making the chocolate cookie dough:

First step is to make the dough for these Tootsie Roll Cookies.

This chocolate cookie dough recipes is very similar to the chocolate cookie recipe I use to make my famous Chocolate Unicorn Cookies but we’re not adding any chocolate chips to this cookie dough.

Once the dough it mixed up drop by rounded 1/2 tablespoon scoops onto a baking sheet.

Slightly press cookie down and use your thumb or the back of 1/2 tablespoon measuring spoon to create a well in middle of dough.

Once the cookies are baked, as soon as they come out of the oven and are still super hot, use the back of 1/2 tablespoon measuring spoon to press down middle of cookie again.

Let those chocolate babies cool while you make up the Tootsie Roll ganache. Yep! We are making a Tootsie Roll ganache to pour into the middle of these cookies!

Making Tootsie Roll ganache:

You’re going to need a bunch of Tootsie Roll® Midgees for this ganache. Tootsie Roll® Midgees are basically just tiny Tootsie Rolls.

I’ve seen Tootsie Roll® Midgees sold in bags wrapped like these in the photos but last time I was at the store I saw a huge bag of unwrapped Tootsie Roll® Midgees in the candy section! Those would be perfect for these cookies.