Dessert

Salted Caramel Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Probably the best chocolate chunk cookies you might ever taste. Rich buttery cookie dough with chunks of dark chocolate, caramel and sea salt on top.

To recipe
Soft and chewy salted caramel chocolate chunk cookies
Recipe insights & TIPS

Sometimes all you need is a cookie. A chewy buttery, brown sugar cookie with melted chunks of dark chocolate, shards of caramel and flakes of sea salt sprinkled on top. Yeah, that kind of cookie.

Soft and chewy salted caramel chocolate chunk cookies

The whole inspiration for this cookie came while I was standing in line at Starbucks. I heard that being a Pisces makes me a really bad decision maker, I totally believe this to be true and here’s why.

I rarely buy anything other than coffee but this time the Chocolate Chunk Cookie and the Toffeedoodle Cookie had me squished up against the glass. You’re killing me Starbucks.

Being as indecisive as I am, I flipped back and forth on which one to buy. I finally went with the Toffeedoodle and then to my horror, more decisions! “Would you like that warmed up?”

I grabbed my stuff and hightailed it. The cookie was good, but damn it that thing needed chocolate. Getting coffee shouldn’t be so stressful. So I made my own cookies and now I’m sharing them with you, and they’re pretty freaking amazing.

Soft and chewy salted caramel chocolate chunk cookies

I bet you even have all of these ingredients in your kitchen right now? Okay maybe not flaked sea salt but you should. It’s like pixie dust for desserts.

Get yourself a really good dark chocolate bar at least 70%. Chocolate chips wont melt like these chunks and remember, we’re not calling this a chocolate chip cookie, these are way too sassy.

You’ll smash up those hard caramel candies with a rolling pin and add it to the dough. You might not see toffee chunks but you’ll feel the chewy crunchy bits when you bite into them.

For all my indecisive cookie lovers.

Soft and chewy salted caramel chocolate chunk cookies

Love this recipe?

Make meal planning easier with our new meal planner.

Save hours on meal planning
Smart grocery lists
500+ curated recipes
Print to PDF
A white, fluffy chef's hat with an orange band, logo of Foodness Gracious.

Recipe

Probably the best cookie you might ever taste. Rich buttery cookie dough with chunks of dark chocolate, caramel and flaked sea salt sprinkled on top.

Course:
Dessert
COOKing TIME:
13 minutes
Total TIME:
23 minutes
CUISINE:
American
PREP TIME:
10 minutes
SERVINGS:
6

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 stick soft unsalted butter
  • 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 1 3.5 oz dark chocolate bar
  • 8 hard caramel candies Werthers Originals is what I used
  • Flaked sea salt

Ingredient Swaps

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Linne a large baking tray with parchment paper.
  2. In a small bowl combine the flour and baking soda.
  3. Using a stand mixer, beat the butter and both sugars until creamy.
  4. Add the vanilla and the egg, mix to combine.
  5. Gradually add the flour with the mixer on low and mix just until the dough comes together. Stop mixing.
  6. Chop the chocolate bar roughly with a sharp knife and add to the cookie dough.
  7. Smash the caramel candies while they are still in the wrapper and then open them placing the broken pieces into the cookie dough.
  8. Mix on low for about 20 seconds, just to combine the chocolate and caramel through the dough.
  9. Place the dough and mixing bowl in the freezer for 10 minutes.
  10. Divide the dough into pieces each weighing about 1 1/2 ounces.
  11. Roll into a ball and place on your prepared tray. You'll probably have to do this in two batches.
  12. Leave enough room around each cookie and very gently press down to create a flat top.
  13. Bake for 13 minutes and then sprinkle some flaked sea salt on top of each cookie when they come out of the oven.
  14. Let cool for 5 minutes before moving them to a wire rack and continuing with any remaining dough.

A white, fluffy chef's hat with an orange band, logo of Foodness Gracious.

Did you make this recipe?

Tag @foodnessgracious on Instagram and hashtag it #foodnessgracious so we can see all the deliciousness!