My perfectly chewy and delicious salted caramel chocolate chip cookies will become your favorite cookie recipe ever. A classic gets an update when stuffed with caramel (like this caramel pie) and topped with sea salt. If you love these, you will also love these Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies, Brown Butter Butterfinger Cookies, Sweet and Salty Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies!!
I make bomb cookies. Seriously I kill the cookie game and have been slaying it for years. They should write songs about my chocolate chip cookies, and if someone doesn’t soon, I will write one, record a song in the studio and pitch it to all the local radio studios. My cookie game is that good.
What makes my original chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe so masterful is the perfect texture. It doesn’t get any better, that is unless you decide to stuff it with caramel and sprinkle on some sea salt. I actually surprised myself with how insanely amazing these are.
I love caramel and bringing the worlds of my chocolate chip cookies and caramel together was the best idea I have had in a while. I am elated it turned out so wonderfully. The cookies are much bigger than the standard cookie but the result is more deliciousness right? No complaints here!
I baked these a little longer than I usually do to get more golden color and a bit of crispiness on the edges but if you love them chewier just bake them for a shorter amount of time. Gosh I love these. Now I am pleased to share the perfection with you. May the forces (of love) be with you.
Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
- 1 large egg at room temperature
- 2 large egg yolks at room temperature
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Individual wrapped caramels make sure they are soft like the ones I list above
- Sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.In a medium sized bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, salt, baking powder and baking soda and put aside.
- In the bowl of your mixer, add butter and both granulated and brown sugars and cream together for 3-4 minutes on high until light and fluffy.
- Next add in eggs one at a time beating until incorporated. Then add in pure vanilla extract and beat until smooth.
- Turn down your mixer to low and add in flour mixture in three intervals beating after each addition until well-combined. Lastly, stir in chocolate chips.
- Place dough in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour. Two hours is even better.
- Scoop cookie dough in balls the size of a tablespoon. Add an unwrapped caramel to the center of 1 ball of dough then add another ball of dough to cover the caramel. Roll into one larger ball of dough
- and place on parchment paper lined cookie sheet at least 1 1/2 inches apart.
- Bake 11-14 minutes. Cookies may seem a little undone but remove from oven if you like them soft and chewy. If you want them more crisp, bake 14 minutes or longer.
- Sprinkle with sea salt and serve.
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I made these cookies for a potluck yesterday and they were a huge hit. Had multiple people asking for more after we’d run out! After a couple practice runs I found out that putting a whole caramel chew inside the dough left a sticky center that would tear out the middle of the cookie. Instead I cut each chew into pieces and mixed them into the dough like the chocolate chips. Not a bad turn out for my first time baking!
These are the best cookies I ever had, even my picky family loved them. Thanks for the recipe!
I made these today. I unwrapped the soft Werther caramels before I made the cookies…bad move. Although my kitchen isn’t warm, they all stuck together and I had to hack pieces off! I also used chocolate chunks instead of chips which I’m sure would have worked better. I originally set my oven to bake 12 minutes, but I found that even at 14 minutes they were still barely done. Taste? Absolutely yummy. Even though they are huge, I ate two immediately!
Can you freeze these once baked???
These cookies came out AMAZING and I have been told they were the best cookies I’ve ever made. I used werther’s original soft caramels and ended up slicing them in half and flattening the caramel down for each cookie. 10/10 would make again!
Not that you need another rave review for these cookies, but holy amazeballs were they good! Some of the best cookies I’ve ever made. I froze some of the dough for later so we can enjoy them often. 5 freakin stars!
This cookie is AHMAZING. I omit the chocolate chips and it has been a hit with my family and friends.
Hi
There’s nothing in this post that mention the brand of caramels you used in this recipe.
I make the recipe w/ canna butter, it totally hides the taste and just tastes like the best dayum cooking You’ve ever had !
Instructions call for cream but I don’t see it in the ingredients list?
Cream means to mix. No cream in the recipe. I hope that helps.