I was craving cookies over the rainy weekend and wanted to jazz up my standard chocolate chip cookie recipe. I found some Nestle caramel chips in the supermarket and thought a salted caramel cookie would be a winner!
These cookies are so easy to prepare and the dough can be pulled together in under 10 minutes. Sometimes I make a double batch and roll the remainder into a log, cover well with cling film and freeze for future cooking baking times.
I reduced the sugar in these cookies as the caramel chips are very sweet. You can add more salt (or even less) to taste, but I love the contrast of the sweet caramelised bits and the occasional crunch of salt. Delicious!
Please try very hard not to eat all the cookie dough, I often end up getting only 19 cookies from this batch into the oven due to the irresistible powers of raw cookie dough ;)
Leave these babies to cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes before serving. If you have any left (it rarely happens in my household), they can keep in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
Ingredients
- 140 g butter room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1½ cups plain flour
- 1 tsp sea salt + extra to sprinkle on top
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 250 g Nestle caramel chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 170°C. Cream the butter and sugar for at least 5 minutes until the mixture becomes light and fluffy.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat well.
- Add caramel chips, flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder. Beat on low speed until just combined (don’t overwork the mixture or it can become tough).
- Dollop tablespoon sized balls of cookie dough onto lined baking trays. Sprinkle each cookie with a bit more sea salt.
- Bake until cookies are golden around the edges, around 12-14 minutes.
What’s your favourite type of cookie recipe to bake?
20 Comments
i wanted to make salted caramel chip cookies too but ive searched the local supermarkets in my area and no one has them!
Oh damn! I got mine from the Coles in Surry Hills, I think I have seen them in the big CBD supermarkets too. Good luck!
Oh my goodness! these look perfect, do you have a secret for getting them so perfectly round? or is it just the old ice cream scoop trick?
Yep the old ice cream scoop trick! And then I gently rolled them into balls and flattened them slightly before baking :)
Ooh yum how good are those caramel chips! These look super delish and love your photos!!
Thank you Christine! They are dangerously addictive…
Ooh these sound GOOD! Who knew caramel chips could be so delicious?!
They were incredibly delicious! And once baked, the caramel chips get slightly caramelised and crunchy on the bottom, heaven!
yum! should try to make these for my caramel addicted friend. thanks for posting this up!
I’m pretty sure they will love these (and you if you make them!)
I’d probably eat at least half the cookie dough… haha! how do you get yours so uniform! It’s like a little army!
Cookie dough is so dangerous! I measured each cookie with an ice cream scoop, then rolled them into balls and gently flattened them so they are all even :)
Oh my gosh, I have made these three times already, so simple and they are the whole family’s new favourite biscuit. I love the salty sweetness! Thanks for sharing!
You are very welcome! So glad to hear your family love these :)
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How am I supposed to measure out 140 g of butter? I’m looking everywhere on line and I can’t convert it to cups. If I don’t have a food scale I can’t make these?
Hi there, I use this site for my conversions http://www.traditionaloven.com/conversions_of_measures/butter_converter.html
So 140g butter = just over 1/2 metric cup of butter. Hope that helps!