Chocolate Caramel Cookies with Sea Salt
Happy Birthday to ME! Today is my 28th birthday and I am ready to party:) I have the day off and I plan on enjoying every minute of my special day. I love birthdays!
My handsome hubs is taking me out to a nice sushi dinner tonight. I can’t wait. We will be celebrating all weekend long too-friends are coming over tomorrow and we are hosting a Super Bowl party on Sunday.
I am not a big cake fan so for my birthday we are celebrating with COOKIES! Last year Josh made me chocolate chip cookies, he always spoils me:) This year we are celebrating with chocolate caramel cookies with sea salt.
These cookies are very chocolaty. I used dark cocoa to get the deepest, darkest, chocolate flavor. Next, I rolled soft caramel into little balls and wrapped the chocolate dough around the caramel. I love salt and caramel together, so I topped the cookies off with sea salt.
The caramel melted throughout the cookies while baking. I was worried the caramel would turn hard, after baking, but the cookies stayed soft and chewy. The rich chocolate, sweet caramel, and salt were the perfect combination. I am in love with these cookies and I think you will be too!
Make a batch for your weekend Super Bowl bash or whip up a batch for your special Valentine next week…or just make them because they are really good and it is my birthday:) I hope you will all celebrate with me!
It is also Nutella Day-yahoo! If you want to honor Nutella, try my Nutella Brownies or Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies, they are both winners!
Chocolate Caramel Cookies with Sea Salt
Yield: 2 dozen cookies
Cook Time: 12-15 minutes
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons butter
7 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa (I used dark cocoa)
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/3 cup plain yogurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Soft caramel, rolled into little balls (I used Peter's caramel)
Sea saltDirections:
Preheat oven to 350ºF; line 2 baking sheets with baking paper, lightly coated with cooking spray. I used Silpats! Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Sift together flour, soda, and salt; set aside.
Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Remove from heat; stir in cocoa powder and sugars (mixture will resemble coarse sand). Add yogurt and vanilla, stirring to combine. Add flour mixture, stirring until moist. Wrap the chocolate dough around the caramel balls. Place balls on cookie sheets and sprinkle with sea salt.
Bake for 10-12 minutes or until almost set. Cool on pans 2 to 3 minutes or until firm. Remove cookies from pans; cool on wire racks.
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i want one of these cookies! sea salt is amazing on sweets. it adds that extra somethin’.
Happy Birthday!!! Those cookies look amazing! During Christmas Trader Joe’s had chocolates with sea salt and they were amazing. I have celiac disease so, I can’t make these as is but, maybe I’ll try experimenting and try to make a gluten-free version! Hope you have a wonderful Day!!
Looks delicious. I really need to try the sea salt and chocolate combination. I don’t know why I haven’t yet!
Happy Birthday to you! Have a fabulous weekend!
Have a happy birthday! I’ve never used sea salt on anything. It looks great on cookies.
The color of these cookies is so nice and rich. What brand of cocoa did you use? I have Green & Blacks but I’ve never baked a chocolate cookie with that kind of color, but, then again, I usually use like 3 tbsp..??
Delish! Great photos too.
Happy Birthday!!
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Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Maria! These cookies look wonderful – I love the sweet and salty combo!
these sound absolutely delicious!! a great way to celebrate! happy birthday
First of all… Happy Birthday! I hope it’s very special for you.
These cookies are right up my alley. Chocolate, sweet and salty. LOVE that combination!
Happy Birthday. These are perfect cookies. I love chocolate, caramel and salt. Together they are the best taste.
Happy Birthday! I am crazy about salted caramel, I love french fleur du sel caramels especially. These cookies sound wonderful. There is a “Sunshine Award” for you on my blog today as you bring sunshine to my blog reading!
Happy Birthday!! I love them. And in fact, my 28th is coming up this year and I’m ready to party and celebrate with sushi as well. 28 sounds good.
You know, I’ve never even flirted with the idea of sea salt + cookies. What an unusual but bright idea. I’m interested!
yummy, I love when you taste the salt in cookies it makes the butter come out.
Happy Belated!
Happy Belated Birthday, those cookies look scrumptious!
I’m a day late, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY! As always, these cookies look simply amazing and I cannot wait to try them!
I do hope your birthday was one to remember and celebrated just the way you had hoped. See you soon.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY gorgeous Maria. Hope your day was wonderful…as wonderful as these awesome cookies. {HUGS}
These cookies look divine! Caramel, chocolate, sea sea salt are the perfect combination. All your superbowl food is making me wish I was into football!
Yum…these look fabulous! I hope you had a fantastic birthday!
Sorry I missed wishing you a happy birthday! I hope it was a great one. These cookies look terrific – my absolute favorite flavors are in there.
This is basically everything a girl could want in a cookie. Chocolate? Check. Caramel? Check. Salt? Check. What a perfect birthday treat!
Yum! Those cookies look *amazing*. I love chocolate and caramel with salt… Such a great flavor combination!
Happy Birthday!! And what fabulous cookies – love the caramel filling!
I’m very late to the “party” but I wanted to send you Happy Birthday wishes, even if I’m a little late!! The cookies look wonderful.
Wow, these are definite winners! I can almost taste them just looking at the picture. Yum! Hope you had a great birthday!
WOW! I am in awe of these cookies – I’m soooo making them for valentines day!
Happy Birthday btw, and like your blog which I just found through tasty kitchen ; )
Those cookies look delish, enjoy your birthday!
Happy belated birthday Maria!!! Hope you enjoyed your bday weekend. And these cookies look spectacular!!!
i found your blog on TK and love your recipes! i made these cookies last night and now i can’t stop eating them! thanks for the delicious new recipe:o)
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Can you believe I am just finally getting to this post?! Happy, happy belated birthday! Best wishes for 28… it’s been a good year for me so far.
I am bookmarking this recipe right now… chocolate, salt, and caramel is definitely a winning combo!
Belated Happy Birthday. Hope you had a great one most especially with this cookies.
These cookies are calling my name…loving the sea salt addition. I’m such a sucker for sweet and salty!
Are these “the” cookies? they look delish and yummy and all the best adjectives!
The moment I saw this recipe on your blog I knew I had to make them. Today, I finally got around to whipping up a batch and they were absolutely awesome! Thank you so much for sharing…I look forward to trying more of your recipes.
twopeas replied: — February 21st, 2010 @ 6:16 pm
Cathy-we are glad you enjoyed the cookies. Let us know what else you try! Thanks!
I made these cookies the other day, they were great so moist, almost “brownie like”! I do think it’s what I would call a grown up cookie, as my kids weren’t the biggest fans. LOL However, all of the adults that tried them raved! I got 2 doz out of the recipe, thanks for sharing. I found you through tasty kitchen.
twopeas replied: — February 23rd, 2010 @ 8:58 am
Darla-Glad you like these cookies too! Thanks for stopping in!
Oooooo what are these???? Be still my heart!
i have these bookmarked now! Hopefully I can sub in these caramel bits I have here.
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I must have just one. Oh how I could eat a plate full.
Just made these tonight
Like another commenter said, these cookies are almost brownie like and really hold their shape (they don’t go all flat and crinkled like other cookie recipes I’ve tried).
I’m a big salt fan but even I had to go easy on the salt. My cookies kind of stayed fat and round so I just put 4-6 salt kernels on top and found that was plenty for a salt lover.
Other than that, even the chocolate and caramel combined worked perfectly. I used Werthers original chewy caramels.
twopeas replied: — April 1st, 2010 @ 8:06 am
Jake-glad you liked the cookies. The salt goes a long way so just use a little sprinkle:)
Happy birthday….you are a baby!!! These cookies look divine!
Happy Birthday to you! Hope it was fabulous!
P.S. I’ve just died and gone to heaven… salty, caramel, chocolate heaven. *bliss*
I just made these cookies and they are so delicious! Thanks for the recipe.
twopeas replied: — July 4th, 2010 @ 5:07 pm
Thanks. They are a favorite of ours:)
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Mmmm…I ran to the store for ingredients and whipped these up as soon as I stumbled upon this recipe. They are amazing and my husband is in love!
Thanks for sharing the recipe! I have a question for you…I followed the recipe to a T but I can’t get mine to look “cookie shaped” like the ones pictured and instead, mine stayed in their round little ball shape. The only difference was that I didn’t use baking paper. I’m making them for my sister-in-law’s bridal shower on Sunday and want to make sure they are absolutely perfect! Do you think the baking paper is the missing ingredient for that nice cookie shape? I’m not sure what else it could be!
twopeas replied: — August 30th, 2010 @ 10:29 am
I always use parchment or a Silpat. I think it helps evenly bake the cookies. I am not sure why they were not round. Make sure you shape them all the same size. Maybe flatten them a little with your hand before baking. Good luck with the shower!
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