SALTED CARAMEL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

These Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip cookies are the perfect treat for any sweet & salty fix. Caramel flavored cookie dough with sweet chocolate chips, melted caramel pieces and a sprinkle of sea salt make for one outrageous cookie.

I don’t know about you but there’s something about salted caramel that reminds me of fall. I don’t even know what it is that makes me feel this way but I associate salted caramel with fall. Weird? Maybe…

ingredients

• 2 and 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter – softened at room temperature
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar (packed)
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar (packed)
• 1 large egg (room temperature)
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon caramel extract
• 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips (plus more for tops of cookie dough balls)
• 20 pieces of soft caramel candy (cut into fours; I used Kraft caramels)
• Coarse Sea Salt

instructions

• In a medium sized bowl combine flour, baking and salt. Whisk dry ingredients together just to combine them. Set aside. Unwrap soft caramel candy and cut each piece into four smaller pieces and set those aside too.
• In a large mixing bowl combine butter and all 3 sugars and cream together using a stand mixer or electric handheld mixer on medium speed. Stop mixing and scrap dough down the sides of the bowl as necessary. Continue mixing and add in egg, vanilla extract and caramel extract. Once egg and both extracts are combined into the dough slowly add in dry ingredients, and mix until thoroughly combined and dough is thick. Turn off mixer and fold in chocolate chips.
• Line a plate with wax paper or parchment paper. Scoop dough into balls about 1.5 tablespoons in size and place them on the plate. Take a few extra chocolate chips and insert them on top of each cookie dough ball along with one of two pieces of caramel. Sprinkles each cookie dough ball with sea salt and place the plate in the freeze for at least 2 hours or as long as over night. If freezing them overnight cover the plate with plastic wrap.
• For full instructions please see : just-add-sprinkles.com

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