Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar packed
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs, room temp
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp cornstarch
- 2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
- 10-12 chopped salted pretzels
- salted caramel sauce
What to do
1. Place butter and sugars in a stand mixer, fitted with paddle attachment. Mix on medium speed for about 90 seconds. Hand mixer and/or whisk also works- just make sure butter is extra soft, so you can easily mix.
2. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix on low speed until combined.
3. Sift all dry ingredients into a medium bowl (wait on the chocolate chips). Give the dry mix a good whisk or two so everything is combined. Add all ingredients to your butter and sugar mixture. Mix on low until flour is barely combined. Add chocolate chips.
4. At this point, I like to cover and chill my dough for 24 hrs (*see note below). You can also bake right away. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 375.
5. Using an ice cream scoop or large spoon, scoop dough into about 8 large cookies or 16 smaller cookies. Place 4-6 (depending on size) on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for about 10-12 minutes (if baking larger cookies, bake time could increase to ~14 minutes), or when edges are browning and tops look puffed up but still underdone (*see note about shaping cookies below). Remove from oven. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
6. Drizzle homemade, room temperature salted caramel sauce over each cookie and sprinkle chopped pretzels. Enjoy warm or at room temperature! Cookies can be stored at room temperature for 2-3 days.
*Pro tip: You can reheat your cookies at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes. This gives your cookies that fresh baked taste again!
Note: This cookie recipe has been adapted from Joy Food Sunshine
FAQ’s
Helpful tips
Here are some important Pro tips by Maude
- When measuring your flour, be sure not to scoop your measuring cup into the flour (that is too much flour!) You want to spoon your flour into your measuring cup (spoonful by spoonful) until the cup is full. Then use a knife to scrape off the top, excess flour. This tip will ensure that you are not using too much flour in your recipes.
- Chilling cookie dough is a sure way to improve the flavor of your cookies! The chilling process allows the flour to moisten and the sugars and butter to get acquainted… which creates an almost butterscotch/caramel-like flavor to your cookies! It is heavenly! Try not to skip this step!
- Chilling cookie dough is a sure way to improve the flavor of your cookies! The chilling process allows the flour to moisten and the sugars and butter to get acquainted… which creates an almost butterscotch/caramel-like flavor to your cookies! It is heavenly! Try not to skip this step!
- When baking your cookies, try not to crowd your pan as your cookies will spread. For this recipe, I usually bake 3 cookies at a time.
- I often bake ugly looking cookies (LOL). To avoid ugly cookies, and to create uniformed cookies, I take a cup or cookie cutter and place it over each cookie- give it a nice swirl, which helps the cookie return to a circular shape. Its a bomb technique, and no skill required!
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