I am a big, soft and chewy girl. When it comes to cookies, big, soft and chewy is the way I roll. None of those hard-crunchy cookies. Also, anything with caramel and I am in. I also love to add salt to my sweets, brings out the flavor, balances everything out, keeps your taste buds engaged! In fact, I am not either a salty or sweet person, I am both, I don’t discriminate. I love you equally dear salty and sweet. Anyway, I have gotten off track. These are one of my soft, chewy, caramel, chocolate chip cookies with sea salt recipe. Perfect combo of cookie dough, caramel center and chocolate chips, all topped off with a sprinkle of sea salt.
I had to travel for work recently, we had to head down to our home office in Fl for some client meetings. Well our back-office is there and the service team that deals with our clients on a day to day to basis. They do a lot, so I thought I would do something nice for them and whip up a batch of homemade, delicious, chewy chocolate chip cookies. I needed tins to transport them. I got mine from amazon. How cute are these tins? Perfect for gifting your goodies.
I packed up my cookies in the suitcase, along with my other sundries and headed off to the airport, running a little…or a lot late! I didn’t think it would be a problem since I have TSA pre-check so I was figuring breezing through security. Thought, I was going to have to toss my cookies! I thought I was going to have to hand over my precious cargo to TSA! My bag got flagged and had to be searched. I was like, it’s just cookie tins, I swear! Well, turns out they weren’t after my cookies. I forgot I had sunscreen in one if the pockets. So, I had to lose my sunscreen. But hey, who needs sunscreen when you have these cookies! SPF protection is sooo overrated!
Crisis averted, ! These cookies, that are oozing caramel and topped off with sea salt, made it through safe and sound. Bonus, I made it through safe and sound too. Phew!
Mmm, caramel…
Mmm, salt…
Give these cookies a try, ship them off to your co-workers or carefully pack them in your suitcase, but remember to snag 1 or 10 for yourself to enjoy too!
- 2 cups plus 2 tbsp. AP flour
- 1 large egg and 1 large egg yolk
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 ½ sticks unsalted butter room temp
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. espresso powder
- ¾ cup packed light brown sugar
- ¼ brown rice syrup
- 1 tbsp. of molasses
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 22 to 24 caramels (Rolos, Kraft, Hershey Caramel Kisses)
- Make the dough:
- In a large bowl, combine all the dry ingredients and whisk to combine.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter for about two minutes. Add the granulated sugar and brown sugar and mix until fluffy about five minutes. Mix in the molasses and brown rice syrup.
- Next add the egg and then the yolk. Mix after each addition.
- Add the vanilla extract and mix.
- Add half the dry ingredients and mix to incorporate.
- Add the rest of the dry ingredients and mix to combine. Do not over mix.
- Stir in the chocolate chips with a wooden spoon.
- Chill the dough for two hours or covered up to three days.
- Bake the cookies:
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mat.
- Take the cookie dough out of the fridge an allow to sit at room temp for about 10 minutes.
- Un-wrap your caramels (I used Rolos for these)
- When the dough is soft enough to scoop, scoop out about a tbsp. size ball. Press a thumb print in the dough to place the caramel in. Roll the dough up around the caramel. You may need to all a little more dough to completely cover. Roll into a ball and place on prepared pan (do place too close together, they will spread some). You will get between 22 to 24 cookies. Sprinkle with sea salt.
- Place the cookie dough balls in the freezer for about 10 minutes.
- Bake the chilled cookies for around 16 to 18 minutes until golden brown.
- Allow to cool completely on the pan. Store covered at room temp for up to a week (they won't last that long).
- Enjoy!
Yum! These sound delicious! Any cookie with espresso powder, chocolate chips, caramel, and sea salt has GOT to be fabulous <3
They are tasty!! I’m a sucker for anything caramel, chocolate and salt!