Enjoy the perfect balance of sweet and salty with this easy-to-bake salted caramel chocolate chip cookie recipe. They're chewy in the middle, crisp on the edges, and loaded with chocolate chips for a tasty treat that's just as satisfying as my favorite chocolate chip cookies.
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If you are a caramel lover, you have to try these easy-to-bake salted caramel chocolate chip cookies that blend gooey caramel and rich chocolate chunks into a golden, crunchy treat, topped with a sprinkle of sea salt for the ultimate sweet-salty flavor experience.
Whip up your new favorite cookies with ease using this straightforward recipe. Whether you've got salted caramel candies or soft caramels lying around, they're the secret to creating a heavenly homemade batch, ready to delight at any moment.
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Ingredients Notes
You need these ingredients to make these caramel chocolate chip cookies:
- Flour: All-purpose flour or cake flour.
- Baking Soda: Helps the cookies rise and spread just the right amount.
- Salt: A pinch of sea salt.
- Butter: Unsalted butter, softened to room temperature or melted butter but cooled first (brown butter is also great).
- Sugars: A mix of dark brown sugar or light brown sugar for moisture and depth of flavor, and white granulated sugar.
- Eggs: Room-temperature eggs will mix more evenly.
- Vanilla Extract: Pure vanilla extract.
- Chocolate Chips: Semi sweet chocolate chips, chocolate chunks or milk chocolate chips.
- Salted Caramel candies: Either store-bought (Werther's soft caramels) or homemade caramel bits, or butterscotch chips, ensure it's thick enough not to make the dough too wet.
- Flaky Sea Salt: Sprinkling on top before baking creates a delightful contrast and intensifies the caramel flavor.
How to Make Chewy Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies
Here are some quick visual instructions. Don't forget that full recipe instructions with exact ingredients can be found in the recipe card below
Step 1: Place the softened butter with white sugar and brown sugar in a large bowl of an electric mixer or in the mixing bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat at medium speed for about 2 to 3 minutes until the mixture is smooth and homogeneous.
Step 2: Add the egg and vanilla extract into the butter mixture and mix again for 1 minute to incorporate.
Step 3: Add the dry ingredients, flour, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder, and fleur de sel (sea salt) to the wet ingredients. Add the dark chocolate chips or chocolate chunks and the salted caramel pieces or caramel bits.
Step 4: Mix with a wooden spoon or with your hands until the cookie dough is homogeneous and a bit sticky.
Step 5: Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C) and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or with a silicone baking mat.
Step 6: Using your hands or a cookie scoop, shape cookie dough balls and place them on the prepared cookie sheet covered, making sure to separate them by about 2 inches / 5 cm.
Add extra chocolate chips and bake for about 12 - 15 minutes until lightly golden brown on top but still a little soft in the middle.
Let cool: Allow the baked cookies to cool slightly on the baking sheet before letting the cookie cool completely on a cooling rack.
Enjoy! Sprinkle a hint of sea salt on top of your salted caramel chocolate chip cookies and enjoy with a glass of milk.
Tips for this recipe
Secret tip
Use a round cookie cutter around the cookies when they come out of the oven to give them a round shape.
Storage Instructions
Room Temperature: Store cookies can be stored at room temperature for one week when placed in an airtight container or under a dome.
How to Freeze Cookies? You can freeze them for up to 3 months either after baking, when they are completely cooled, in storage bags.
Or before baking by shaping them into cookie dough ball, you will then just need to let them come back to room temperature before following the baking instructions of the recipe.
Recipe Variations
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I hope you love these caramel chocolate chip cookies. If you make it, be sure to leave a comment and a rating so I know how you liked it. Happy Baking!
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Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 12 cookies
Description
Recipe for salted caramel chocolate chip cookies, soft and chewy with chocolate chips (for 12 to 14 cookies)
Ingredients
- 120 g ( ½ cup or 1 stick + 1tsp) Butter - unsalted and softened
- 100 g (½ cup) Sugar - granulated
- 50 g (¼ cup) Brown sugar
- 1 egg - room temperature
- 1 teaspoon of liquid vanilla
- 220 g (1 ½ cup) Flour all-purpose
- 1 tbsp. cornstarch
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 140 g (¾ cup) Chocolate chips
- 80 g Soft salted caramel candy - about 10
Instructions
- Cut the soft salted caramel candies into small pieces and set them aside.
- In a large bowl, place the softened butter cut into pieces with the sugar and brown sugar.
- Mix with an electric mixer on medium speed or a hand whisk for about 2 to 3 minutes until well blended and smooth.
- Add the egg and vanilla and mix again for 1 minute to incorporate.
- Then add the dry ingredients, flour, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder, sea salt, chocolate chips and soft caramel bits.
- And mix this time with a soft spatula or a wooden spoon until you get a homogeneous and a bit sticky dough.
- Using your hands or an ice cream scoop, form the cookie balls and place them on the baking sheet, leaving a space of about 2 inches / 5 cm between each ball.
- Place the baking sheet in the fridge for at least 30 minutes - 1 hour or in the freezer for about 12-15 minutes.
Notes
Storage: At room temperature for 1 week in a storage box with a lid and up to 3 months in the freezer.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Cookies,
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 280
- Sugar: 23.5 g
- Sodium: 227.2 mg
- Fat: 12.6 g
- Carbohydrates: 39.9 g
- Protein: 3.6 g
- Cholesterol: 37.5 mg
Delicious! My friends loved them and my son asked me to make these when he comes home from college!
I see the last step says how long to freeze or chill the dough. How long do you cook them?
Hi, cookies should be baked at 350 degrees F. for about 13-15 minutes depending on diameter.
Can I make the cookie dough 1 day ahead of time and put it in the fridge?
Made them for Valentines Day. The cookies are amazing and I love how you don’t have to make dozens of them at one time. I made 10 cookies and then froze the other ten cookie forms for another time. Loved them!
Love these. So good. Love the small batch too