I love chocolate chips cookies and as you know, anything salted caramel. So naturally, when I spotted this recipe on Pinterest, I had to try it! It’s nearly as quick and easy to make as traditional chocolate chip cookies, with the added caramel sauce. They were almost as amazing as I thought they would be, however, the caramel becomes crunchy and a bit too many chocolate chips for me. So I adapted the recipe with my caramel sauce.
Chocolate Chip Salted Caramel Cookie Bars
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Ingredients
- 1/4 c sugar
- 1/8 c water
- 1 Tbsp & 1 tsp light corn syrup
- 1/4 c heavy cream
- 2 1/8 c flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 12 Tbsp butter melted
- 1 c brown sugar
- 1/2 c sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 3 Tbsp vanilla
- 1 1/2 c chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- In a saucepan over medium heat, combine the first 3 ingredients {sugar, water, corn syrup}, stirring until sugar dissolves.
- Increase heat and continue to boil without stirring until the mixture becomes amber in color {approximately 10 minutes}.
- Remove from heat, add cream and return sauce to low heat until smooth.
- Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, combine butter, sugar and brown sugar.
- Add egg and egg yolk and vanilla. Beat until smooth.
- Gradually add in flour mixture.
- Fold in chocolate chips.
- In a 9x11 greased pan, spread half of your cookie dough.
- Pour caramel sauce over dough and crack sea salt on top.
- Add the second layer of cookie dough and lightly top with sea salt.
- Bake 30 minutes.
Best served warm. Bonus points when topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
Enjoy!
Julie
oh yum. i think i will have to test this one out on mike – he is crazy about anything related to a chocolate chip cookie!
Chris requested them for Admin Day at his office. I wish I had made a double batch, they didn’t last long!
Looks so good! About how many bars did you get out of this recipe?
They are! 18 or so, all depending on how you slice them. Enjoy!
Is 3 Tablespoons vanilla correct? Thanks so much….just wanted to double check….looks delicious! Happy New Year!
It is! You can never have too much in my eyes.
OK, I made these and. . .YUM! So tasty. I forgot to add the salt on top of the dough near the end of the recipe, but added it when it came out of the oven and it was still delicious. Thanks for the great recipe!