I’m currently galavanting around Las Vegas, but I wanted to pop in here to share the COOKIES that I made (and received) from the 2012 Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap! I participated last year and thought it was great, so when they emailed all of us saying there would be a charity aspect to this year’s swap, I definitely couldn’t pass it up.

I gave away one of the OXO Cookie Spatula’s that I received from OXO last week, but I wasn’t able to post the recipe I used until TODAY! Here we go:

Chocolate Chip Cookies with Salted Caramel
recipe slightly adapted from CulinaryChat.net 

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose four
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda (NOT powder – I can’t tell you how many times I’ve mixed them up)
• 1 cup salted butter, slightly softened
• 3/4 cup brown sugar (I used light)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk only
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 cup chocolate chips (I used semi-sweet, but I imagine dark would be delish)
• 16 wrapped caramels, cut into very small pieces
• Sea salt

 

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees
• In one bowl, mix flour and baking soda
• In a separate bowl, mix butter and sugars together
• Once creamed, add in the eggs and vanilla
• In batches, add flour to butter/sugar/egg/vanilla mixture until combined
• Add chocolate chips
• Chill dough for at least 30 minutes in fridge
• Once chilled, spoon dough onto non-stick pan
• Add caramel pieces and press them into the cookie
• Bake for 8 minutes, until lightly golden brown
• While still hot, sprinkle with sea salt