Stuffed Brown Sugar Cookies
This past Christmas, I made chocolate cookies stuffed with caramel, sprinkled with sea salt and dusted with powdered sugar – oh. my. yum. I have been craving salted caramel cookies ever since. The only down side to these cookies was the dough had to chill for a few hours and when you have plates and plates of goodies to get out the door – or you just have a mad craving for salted caramel cookies – waiting three hours can be torturous. So I decided to stuff my favorite ever (no chilling required) Brown Sugar Cookies with caramel and I think Kiwi’s response does my own elation justice: click HERE These caramel oozing Brown Sugar Cookies rank right up there with my S’mores Cookies (aka Patrick’s favorite cookie) and my Nutella Cookies AKA my other favorite cookie. They are soft, chewy, sweet and salty and get even more ridiculously delicious with each bite of soft caramel.
Why You’ll Love this Brown Sugar Cookies Recipe
AWARD WINNING: A reader commented, “I made these for my school’s staff Christmas Cookie Contest. Won best overall cookie, and everyone were raving about them.” BROWN BUTTER: Deeply flavorful with a craveable dimension of nutty, buttery goodness. ZERO CHILLING REQUIRED: So you can eat them ASAP! EASY CARAMEL CENTERS: Add a caramel to cookie dough, top it with more cookie dough and roll into a ball – viola! SOFT AND CHEWY: This recipe includes one extra egg yolk for optimal richness. DECORATE FOR ANY OCCASION: Top with festive sprinkles– use your favorite colors or mix them up for different holidays
Caramel Filled Cookies Ingredients
Caramels: Use soft caramel candies like Kraft. If you use a larger caramel, cut them in half. Butter: Use unsalted butter or omit the salt in the recipe. The butter plays a critical role in the flavor and structure, so please don’t make any substitutions. Flour: Use all-purpose flour for the best texture. Granulated Sugar: This imparts that classic sugar cookie sweetness! Do not use an alternative sweetener because it will affect the texture of the cookies. Baking Powder and Baking Soda: These leaving agents work together to create tender, soft, and chewy cookies. Make sure they’re fresh so they work! Eggs: Use one whole egg and one egg yolk. The egg gives the cookies structure and the egg yolk makes them extra soft and chewy because it adds richness without any additional moisture. Bring the eggs to room temperature before adding to the recipe. Vanilla Extract: Use the best quality for the best flavor. Brown sugar: Use light, medium or dark depending on desired flavor of molasses. Salt: Table salt is added to the cookie batter and I highly recommend topping the baked cookies with sea salt – think salted caramel!
How to Make Stuffed Cookies
These insanely soft Brown Sugar Cookies stuffed with caramel start with nutty brown butter – you know, just to make them even more delicious and because melted butter = a chewier cookie… You then proceed to whip up your cookie dough as usual, but the use of brown sugar adds an additional depth of chewiness, richness and oomph of brown sugar flavor – perfect for cocooning soft, melty caramel. To make the caramel surprise inside, you simply sandwich a soft caramel in-between 2 tablespoons of cookie dough, pinching the edges and squeezing into a ball. You then sprinkle the dough with sea salt and bake for approximately 12 minutes. The Brown Sugar cookies will seem soft but let them cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet to slightly firm up and you will have the softest, chewiest cookies ever… With brown butter, caramel and sea salt. And you too will be pawing for the very last salted caramel cookie… Caramel Stuffed Brown Butter Sugar Cookies with no chill time. Because when you get a craving for caramel stuffed cookies – you need them now. Gimme.
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