Chocolate Caramel Cookies
These Chocolate Caramel Cookies are made with simple ingredients - Rich chocolate cookie dough is baked and topped with luscious frosting and gooey caramel with bits of toffee
Servings: 10
Calories: 287kcal
Equipment
- electric mixer or stand mixer with paddle attachment
- Large Bowl
- medium bowl
- large baking sheets
- Wire Rack
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 cup flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ cup cocoa
- ⅓ cup butter
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ½ cup chocolate chips
Frosting
- 1 cup chocolate frosting
- 12 soft caramels
- 1 Tbsp cream
- 1 Tbsp Skor bits or Heath bits
Instructions
- Cream together butter and sugar in a medium bowl.
- Add egg and vanilla and mix well.
- In a medium bowl add flour, cocoa and baking soda.
- Combine flour mixture to wet ingredients until a soft dough forms.
- Fold in chocolate chips.
- Drop 8-10 large scoops of dough onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
- Bake at 350 for 12 minutes.
- Ice each cookie with the frosting.
- Unwrap the caramels, combine with cream in a microwave safe bowl.
- Heat at 15 second intervals, stirring until the caramel is melted.
- Drizzle caramel over cookies and sprinkle with Skor bits.
Notes
Bake time may vary depending on your oven so check after 10 minutes.
Bake cookies on parchment paper.
Do not over bake your cookies. Remove them based on time and not based on how they look. Let them sit on the tray for one or two minutes and then move them to a cooling rack.
Store cookies in an airtight container.
Nutrition
Calories: 287kcal | Carbohydrates: 51g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.002g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 141mg | Potassium: 161mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 37g | Vitamin A: 64IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 42mg | Iron: 1mg