Brown Butter Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies
Hello friends! I have some sweet cookies for you today. These salted caramel chocolate chip cookies are a great blend of sweet and salty and the perfect chocolate chip cookies for when you have those cookie cravings.
These cookies actually started my obsession with brown butter that manifested into brown butter week. I was testing a few recipes for salted caramel chocolate chip cookies for June Bakin Friends when I came across these. The first batch was too chewy for my taste so I didn’t end up sending them to my baking friend. But I kept working on the recipe and I changed a few things and then browned the butter and the second batch gave me these wonderful cookies.
I made them twice to be sure and mailed them to my biggest critique and taste tester in Virginia. She is brutally honest and isn’t afraid to hurt my feelings as my husband can sometimes be. She loved them so much that she called me three times in one day, each time with specifics about what she liked. So you know these cookies are solid.
What makes them amazing? Is it the nutty browned butter? The salted caramel in the middle? Or the chewy outside and gooey inside? It is actually all of these.
I like soft cookies and that’s exactly what these are. They are very soft and gooey on the inside and so crisp on the exterior. You will love them too! There is nothing not to like here. Seriously! Brown butter and salted caramel were made for each other because the flavors compliment each other perfectly. I know you shouldn’t pick favorites, but these are my favorite cookies yet!
This is a great recipe and a perfect way to end brown butter week!! We’ve had peanut butter brownies, some fluffy peach cupcakes and now these soft salted caramel chocolate chip cookies all loaded with wonderful browned butter.
Thanks for putting up with me this week as I went on and on about my new found secret ingredient. You are the best! And I hope you will give some of these recipes a try, especially these cookies!
Have a great weekend 🙂
Brown Butter Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies
Brown butter and salted caramel were made for each other because the flavors compliment each other perfectly in these salted caramel chocolate chip cookies!
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, browned and cooled to room temperature
- 1¼ cup packed light brown sugar
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg and 1 egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ¼ cup homemade salted caramel sauce
- Sea salt for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare two cookie sheets lined with wax or parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the cooled butter and sugars on medium speed until well combined, about 3 minutes. Add the egg, egg yolk and vanilla and beat until combined. Add in half of the flour mixture and mix on low speed until just combined. Add the rest of the flour and mix well. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand and stir until combined.
- Using a small cookie scoop or tablespoon, scoop one tablespoon of dough, press the center with your thumb and fill with about 1 teaspoon of caramel sauce. Place another scoop of dough on top and press together to seal the caramel sauce inside. Place on cookie sheets.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes or until the edges start to turn golden brown. Cool on baking sheet for about two minutes and sprinkle cookies with sea salt. Transfer to cooling rack.
Brown butter and salted caramel?! Ummm only like two of my most favorite things EVER!! They were totally meant to be BFFs in a chewy, soft cookie. MUST have these!!
Yes they are BFFs!!
Yesss brown butter and salted caramel belong together! Totally should’ve done that for my bars.
Now you get to make them again!!
These cookies look INSANE!!! Insanely amazing, of course! I’ll take a dozen!
Thanks!!
This is ingenious! You rock Zainab 🙂
Thanks!
okay..you inspired me! I just made something similar, but I should have browned the butter! It would have taken the recipe up a notch! Can’t wait to try this recipe. oh! and if you ever need a recipe tester…. 🙂
forgot to mention, great photos!
Thanks dear!
These look amazingly yummy!
Thanks!
Oh my gosh, these look so delicious! Salted caramel is my favorite. Stopping by from SITS Sharefest!
Hi Katie, thanks for stopping by!
Whaaaaaaaat????? These look AMAZING! Thanks for the recipe. Me thinks a batch of cookies is in my future.
Stopping by from SITS.
Thanks Jen!
Oh no, I wish I had never seen these….now I have to make some ASAP! They look amazing
Visiting from SITS
Haha I hope you try them soon!
These cookies look amazing! Love the salted caramel thing!
Thanks Marcie.
These look so good, Zainab! And your photos are amazing! Pinned!
Thanks Julie!
Oh…yummy!!! I’ve never had caramel sauce in cookies. This sounds like a sweet treat for sure. I make chocolate chip cookies sometimes. I definitely will think about adding in the sauce next time.
Sharon
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Sharon it totally adds another level to any chocolate chip cookie recipe! Hope you can try it 🙂
These looks so yummy. Feel like grabbing one right now!
Thank you for sharing.
Ellya
Thanks!
these look delicious!! I would love if you’d bring them to my Sunday Funday Party and share!
*Susan @ Adventures in my Kitchen
http://soozind.blogspot.com
These look so thick & delicious! Drooling! Thanks for sharing at Sweet & Savory Saturdays #21!
~Amber @ Dessert Now, Dinner Later!
http://www.dessertnowdinnerlater.com
These cookies look amazing, dear! 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing them at Marvelous Mondays this week!
Wow! my mouth is watering. I have pinned this for later reference 😀
Found you via Marvelous Mondays 😀
Have a great evening!
Keia @ http://improvingmewithkeialee.blogspot.com
Keia thanks for stopping by!
These look amazing.. but honestly you had me at “salted” anything. I plan on trying these soon! Thanks!
Thanks Pam!
ahhhhh browned butter is such heaven! These cookies are GORGEOUS, I love all the flavors!
Hey Zainab! I will be featuring this at the party tonight! Hope to see you there. 🙂
Thanks Julie! I’ll be there!
Hey Zainab! I will be featuring this at the party tonight! Hope to see you there. 🙂
Dear Zainab, These cookies look wonderful! I know this is something my daughter would enjoy! Blessings, Catherine
Brown butter week! Love it! Pinning these “soft & gooey” babies NOW!
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I am now officially convinced that browning butter is totally worth it! It truly is the perfect flavor combo with the caramel. These cookies were super easy to make and they come out as the perfect balance of salty and sweet. And now that I know there was a whole week of brown butter recipes, I’ve got a lot of baking to do!
So so happy to hear that Liz!! I love love it!! Thank you!! The week of browned butter recipes was done a few years when I discovered how amazing browned butter is haha; I was obsessed. Just search “browned butter” in the search bar above to find them all. Happy Baking!!
Can you use carmel bits instead of carmel sauce? I actually have bourbon carmels I am going to cut up and use I think. I mean browned butter and salted bourbon carmels, what could go wrong?
Nothing could go wrong! Use it 🙂