Sea Salt, Caramel, and m&m Cookies

Sea Salt, Caramel, and m&m CookiesChocolate Chip Cookies are the BEST!  I love them!  It’s hard to imagine improving on the BEST, but I always want to try.  Here’s a successful example. 

If you like sea salt, caramel, and m&ms, I’ve got a new chocolate chip cookie for you.  It’s really good!   When the weather cools off, warm, chewy, chocolate chip cookies are so delicious.  Adding little bites of caramels make them even chewier and so satisfying.  Also, the autumn colored m&ms make them perfect for fall get-togethers and parties.

Sea Salt, Caramel, and m&m Cookies are also the BEST.
Sea Salt, Caramel, and m&m Cookies

Sea Salt, Caramel, and m&m Cookies
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Prep Time
20 min
Cook Time
10 min
Prep Time
20 min
Cook Time
10 min
Ingredients
  1. 1 cup butter, softened
  2. ½ cup shortening
  3. 1 cup sugar
  4. 1 ½ cups brown sugar
  5. 3 eggs
  6. 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
  7. 4 cups flour
  8. 1 ½ teaspoons salt
  9. 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
  10. ½ teaspoon baking powder
  11. 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
  12. 1 bag (11 ounces) m&ms
  13. 1 bag (11 ounces) soft caramels, unwrapped and cut into small pieces
  14. Coarse sea salt for sprinkling on top
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F, and line baking sheets with silicone mats or parchment paper.
  2. Unwrap and chop each caramel into 8 small pieces (about the size of a chocolate chip). Set aside.
  3. In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder, and whisk together.
  4. In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine butter, shortening, and sugars, and cream until light and fluffy. Add eggs, and beat for another 2 or 3 minutes. Scrape bowl, and mix in vanilla.
  5. Add dry ingredients, and mix just to combine thoroughly. Fold in chocolate chips, m&ms, and caramel pieces.
  6. Roll into balls and space evenly on prepared cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes. Remove from oven, and immediately sprinkle tops with coarse sea salt. Cool in pan for 3 minutes, then remove to wire cooling rack.
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 Preheat oven to 375 degrees F, and line baking sheets with silicone mats or parchment paper.

Unwrap and chop each caramel into 8 small pieces (about the size of a chocolate chip). Set aside for a minute.

Unwrap and chop each caramel into 8 small pieces (about the size of a chocolate chip).
Set aside for a minute.

In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together the following 4 cups flour 1 ½ teaspoons salt 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda ½ teaspoon baking powder

In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together the following
4 cups flour
1 ½ teaspoons salt
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder

In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the following, and cream until fluffy 1 cup butter, softened ½ cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 ½ cups brown sugar

In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the following, and cream until fluffy
1 cup butter, softened
½ cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 ½ cups brown sugar

Add 3 eggs and beat for another 2 or 3 minutes.

Add
3 eggs
and beat for another 2 or 3 minutes.

Scrape bowl, and mix in 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla

Scrape bowl, and mix in
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla

Add dry ingredients, and mix just to combine completely.

Add dry ingredients, and mix just to combine completely.

Fold in 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 bag (11 ounces) m&ms

Fold in
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 bag (11 ounces) m&ms

Place rounded teaspoons of dough on cookie sheet.

Place rounded teaspoons of dough on cookie sheet.

Gently insert 4 or 5 of the little caramel pieces into the TOP of the dough balls. It's very important that the caramel doesn't touch the pan while the cookies bake because it will get hard if it does.

Gently insert 4 or 5 of the little caramel pieces into the TOP of the dough balls.
It’s very important that the caramel doesn’t touch the pan while the cookies bake because it will get hard if it does.

Make sure that the caramels are partially pushed into the dough. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

Make sure that the caramels are partially pushed into the dough.
Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

Remove from oven, and ...

Remove from oven, and …

... immediately sprinkle tops with coarse sea salt.

… immediately sprinkle tops with coarse sea salt.

Cool in pan for 3 to 5 minutes.

Cool in pan for 3 to 5 minutes.

Then transfer to a wire cooling rack.

Then transfer to a wire cooling rack.

Enjoy with a glass of cold milk.

Enjoy with a glass of cold milk.

Sea Salt, Caramel, and m&m Cookies