Salted Caramel Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies….The LA Cookie

Woo Hoo, it’s Thursday! So glad the weekend is almost here!

My friend Amanda of Kevin and Amanda, that I met last week at the Bertolli event joined me last Friday at my house for a baking extravaganza 🙂  It was a blast having her in my kitchen snapping pictures with me. We both agreed we need to be neighbors! Amanda has the sweetest blog ever, if you haven’t checked it out you must. She has 2 of the cutest dogs I have ever seen and is a very talented photographer. I just love her, can you tell?!!

Since we had the best time in LA last week, it was only obvious that we create the ultimate LA Cookie. Amanda and I put our heads together and she found this awesome jar of burnt caramel sauce at the cheese shop we visited and we knew we wanted to add some sea salt, so with that in mind I came home and got to work on a fabulous “LA Cookie” recipe!

We used the muffin top pan to make giant cookies. The more I use this pan, the more I am in love with it! You’ve got to get one for yourself!

Hope you enjoy our cookie 🙂  Thanks again for coming Amanda, you must come back again soon!!

Here’s the awesome caramel sauce we found at the Beverly Hills Cheese Shop. You can certainly use any caramel sauce you can find. Even the Smuckers caramel ice cream topping would work.

Think we have enough cookie dough? Lol!

Don’t be afraid of the salt, we put just a little and wished we would have added a touch more. Great sweet and salty combination!

Mmmm, dark chocolate chunks! I waited until this step and added them right on top so they are nice and chocolaty.

Now that is one fabulous looking cookie if I must say so myself!!

Salted Caramel Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies…The LA Cookie

2 sticks softened butter

3/4 Cup granulated sugar

1 Cup packed light brown sugar

2 large eggs

1 1/2 Tablespoons pure vanilla

1/4 Cup burnt caramel sauce (you can use any caramel sauce here)

3 3/4 Cup all purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

12 oz bag mini chocolate chips

1 1/2 Cups chopped good quality chocolate

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a stand or electric mixer, beat the butter and sugars until well combined. Beat in the eggs and vanilla following the caramel sauce until well combined.

2. Place the flour, salt and baking soda into a large bowl; mix. Slowly add to wet ingredients then the chocolate chips. Save chunks for later.

3. Place 1/4 Cup of cookie dough and place into muffin top cups. Press down then sprinkle with a pinch or two of sea salt then press chocolate chunks over top. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until just golden around edges. Remove and let cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Serve with milk!!

18 Large cookies

Thanks so much for coming Amanda, it was so much fun sharing my kitchen with you!! Keep sweet talking your hubby into moving to CA 🙂

Be sure to take a peek at our latest adventures of the Bertolli Trip last week. You can see my pics from the LA Farmer’s Market HERE and Chasing the Gourmet Food Trucks HERE 🙂

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Have a great rest of your week and weekend! See you soon with more good eatin’!

Stack of four chocolate chunk cookies with salted caramel.

Salted Caramel Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Transform your regular chocolate chip cookies by making these Salted Caramel Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies instead! I promise you won't regret it!
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Prep Time 13 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings: 18
Calories: 368kcal
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Ingredients

  • 2 sticks butter softened
  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1½ tablespoons pure vanilla
  • ¼ cup burnt caramel sauce (you can use any caramel sauce here)
  • 3¾ cups all purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1½ teaspoons baking soda
  • 12 ounces mini chocolate chips (I used a 12 oz bag)
  • 1½ cups chopped good quality chocolate

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a stand or electric mixer, beat the butter and sugars until well combined. Beat in the eggs and vanilla following the caramel sauce until well combined.
  • Place the flour, salt and baking soda into a large bowl; mix. Slowly add to wet ingredients then the chocolate chips. Save chunks for later.
  • Place 1/4 Cup of cookie dough and place into muffin top cups. Press down then sprinkle with a pinch or two of sea salt then press chocolate chunks over top.
  • Bake for 12-15 minutes or until just golden around edges. Remove and let cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Serve with milk!!

Notes

Makes 18 large cookies.

Nutrition

Calories: 368kcal | Carbohydrates: 62g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 22mg | Sodium: 193mg | Potassium: 135mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 39g | Vitamin A: 81IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 3mg
Keywords: caramel chocolate chip cookies, chocolate chunk cookies, salted caramel chocolate chunk cookies

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59 Responses
  1. Macy

    Thank you so much for the amazing ideas! I made these cookies and they were such a hit with my family I had to do a double batch! Love your blog!
    -Macy

  2. Kristina

    oh! these look delicious! your whole blog is delicious! (I just found it via Jessica / How Sweet, and I was going to make your Cookie Crispy Treats, but now I want to make THESE! Oh, I’m torn, should I make both??

    …we will have company staying by the end of the week. so yes. I shall!

    I’ve added your blog to my list of daily reading. Thank you for being awesome 🙂

  3. Lucy

    I love the idea of making cookies in this pan! And my the cookies look amazing – I’m going to have to go on a burnt caramel sauce hunt and make some VERY soon 🙂

  4. Katrina

    I’m speechless and REALLY need to find that pan. (Amazon here I come!) Seriously, I love everything about those cookies!

  5. maggy

    I am drooling over these! They look so good! What is this cookie pan? I’ve seen you use it before and I LOVE how it makes the cookies turn out.

  6. Jade

    These look absolutely fabulous!! I can not wait to try them. Anything with chocolate and carmel has to be good.

  7. Becky O.

    I love the combination of sea salt and caramel. I need to give these a try. Plus this might just be my excuse to buy a muffin top tin.

  8. Kristy ~ Posh Pixels Design Studio

    Omg these sound so amazing! Great site! I’m adding you to my blogroll 🙂

    1. Jenny

      Thanks Kristy!! It’s great to have you 🙂 I LOVE your designs!! I’ll be ordering some soon!!

  9. Cookin' Canuck

    What a cute picture of the two of you! These cookies, with the mixture of sweet and salty (I can never get enough of that), sound positively addictive.

  10. Helen

    These look gorgeous. I love the combination of chocolate and salt so will definitely be making these!

  11. ivoryhut

    Um … uh … salted caramel and dark chocolate in cookies? Are you trying to kill me? Those look sooo good that I’m actually contemplating risking another allergy attack (I’m sadly allergic to chocolate). Oh my. I wonder, if I eat it really really fast, will the histamines in my body notice?

  12. Mandy

    Wow, those look FABULOUS! I looked up a muffin top pan on amazon last week (after seeing you write about them). Then, I later bought a father’s Day present for my hubby. Apparently I had unknowingly added the muffin top pan, too, because it arrived yesterday. Score! I was going to hold buying one until we moved, but I’m glad it arrived. Can’t wait to try it with these cookies.:)

  13. Rhiannon @ From the Heart

    muffin top pans? ive never heard of them before. gonna get to the store and get me some and then try this recipe! i’ve been enjoying seeing all the pix from your girls LA trip on Amanda’s blog!

  14. Annmarie Kostyk

    Now this sounds like an amazing cookie! Chocolate, salt and carbs in one place! Sign me up.

  15. Becki D

    There you go again…..I must have some of these cookies ASAP! To the store I go for some dark chocolate… 😉

  16. Jen @ How To: Simplify

    These look delicious! I would love to dunk these cookies in a glass of milk…yum!

  17. Heather (Heather's Dish)

    i almost don’t even have words to say how amazing these look and to express the fact that i want to bury my face in a pile of them. that sounds weird, but oh so true!

    1. Jenny

      I am totally cracking up at your comment Heather!! I will join you in burying our faces in the cookies!! LOL!

  18. Hillary Crump

    these sounds fantastic. You have to try the dark chocolate almonds that are sprinkled in sea salt and turbinado sugar from trader joes. They are addicting.

  19. Debbi Does Dinner Healthy

    I seriously have to get this cookie pan and make these cookies! I love sweet and salty!

  20. Jamie

    A muffin top pan? I have never seen one but boy am I buying one when I’m in the US this summer! Fantastic for cookies. And I love salty sweet and can so taste the slight tang of the salt in these. Super luscious cookies! I wish I was your neighbor!

  21. lalaine

    What a swell idea to use muffin top pans! The cookies are all the same perfect rounds. The OCD half of me would like to thank you for such an awesome trick.

    GOSH! Those cookies look gooood!

  22. Amanda :)

    Jenny! 🙂 Thank you so much for opening up your home (and your kitchen!) to me. The cookies were *incredible* and I had the best time ever! If we were neighbors, you’d never get rid of me! You’d just have to put a cot up in your kitchen because I’d never leave! 😀 Can’t wait to do it again- soon!! Love ya girl! 🙂

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