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Chocolate Caramel Surprise Cookie

2½ cups flour
¾ cup cocoa
1 t. baking soda
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter
2 t. vanilla
2 eggs
½ cup chopped pecans
40 Rolo caramel candies

Topping:

½ cup chopped pecans
1 t. sugar

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In a large bowl, cream butter. Beat in both kinds of sugar until fluffy. Add vanilla and eggs, beat well. Add flour, cocoa, and baking soda. Stir in pecans. Scoop out 1 T. of dough at a time and shape it around one Rolo candy, covering it completely. In another bowl, combine the two topping ingredients. Press one side of each ball of dough into the topping mixture and place topping-side up on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350º for 10 minutes. Yield: 3 dozen cookies