Coconut Thumbprints with Chocolate Caramel

Those Francois Payard Chocolate caramels were wonderful!  However, one can only eat so many and I do mean ONE since Ted doesn’t eat caramel.  I can’t leave the chewy, sweet, creamy confection alone so I have to try to hide it from myself. Luckily, I came across a recipe in Martha Stewart Living Magazine for Coconut Thumbprint Cookies with Salted Caramels.  Perfect! I had all the ingredients.  This is my version of the recipe for Coconut Thumbprints with CHOCOLATE caramels. Makes about 40 cookies 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature 4 oz. cream cheese, softened at room temperature 1 [...]