Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies with Bacon
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 14 mins
Total time: 34 mins
Serves: 16-20 large cookies
Ingredients
2½ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cornstarch
¾ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
½ cup granulated sugar
1½ cups packed brown sugar
1 large egg plus 2 egg yolks at room temperature
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Individual wrapped caramels-cut each caramels into 4 small pieces
Sea Salt
4-5 slices of Bacon-(pre-cooked slices work best)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, salt, baking powder and baking soda and put aside.
- In the bowl of your mixer, add butter and both granulated and brown sugars and cream together for 3-4 minutes on high until light and fluffy.
- Next, add in eggs one at a time, beating until incorporated. Then add in pure vanilla extract and beat until smooth.
- Turn down your mixer to low and add in flour mixture in three intervals beating after each addition until well-combined. Lastly, stir in chocolate chips and caramel pieces.
- Place the dough in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour. Two hours is even better.
- Cook bacon in microwave until slightly crispy, blot with paper towel, then crumble for topping.
- Scoop cookie dough in balls the size of a tablespoon and place on parchment paper lined cookie
- sheet at least 1½ inches apart.
- Bake 11-14 minutes. Cookies may seem a little undone but remove from oven if you like them soft
- and chewy. If you want them crisper, bake 14 minutes or longer.
- Sprinkle with sea salt and bacon crumbles immediately after taken out of oven.
- Let the cookies cool completely on parchment paper.
Serve With
- Vanilla Ice Cream