These sassy Salted Caramel Chocolate Cookies are about to take you on the ultimate sweet and salty flavor journey! Loaded with rich chocolate chips and gooey caramel, and kissed with a lovely sprinkling of sea salt, they’re the savory treat that will make you instantly famous! Just 6 ingredients, and your cookies are done!
Salted Caramel Chocolate Cookies
I don’t know about you, but I have a serious weakness for caramels in the Fall. Even unwrapping them brings me back to delicious memories of baking sweet treats in the kitchen as a little girl.
So of course when fall rolls around, one of the first flavors that comes to mind is salted caramel. That’s why I had to find an easy way to create some cookies that were loaded to the max with salted caramel! But not just any cookies would do… oh no! It needed to be soft chocolate fudge cookies!
Kim writes: "Chocolate and salted caramel... there's no better combination!"
There’s just something magical about ooey gooey ribbons of caramel wrapped up in a perfectly soft chocolate cookie that’s pretty hard to resist! Right?
Of course adding piles of lovely chocolate chips to these cookies doesn’t hurt anything either!
At least it seems to work pretty awesomely when I make these Chocolate Chip with Pecan Cookies, coconut infused Dark Chocolate Cookies… and especially these Chocolate Almond Cookies!
Trust me… you won’t be able to eat just one of these audacious little caramel stuffed cookies! 🙂
Oh… and thanks to a quick cake mix shortcut, these caramel chocolate chip cookies are also one of the EASIEST Fall Baking Recipes ever! So bonus points for being both irresistible and crazy easy, too!
So what are you waiting for? Let’s get baking, shall we?
Ingredients
You’ll need just 6 simple ingredients to make the BEST salted caramel chocolate cookies…
- Cake Mix – I used a Betty Crocker chocolate fudge cake mix for this recipe.
- Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
- Caramels – For this recipe we will cut regular sized caramels into the size of caramel baking bits.
- Butter – Vegetable Oil or Canola Oil can be substituted.
- Eggs
- Coarse Sea Salt – To add the perfect salty touch to your ‘sweet and salty’ cookies.
Trust me, easy cookie recipes with few ingredients and minimal prep like this make preparing salted caramel chocolate cookies so ridiculously easy!
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Pin ItHow Do You Make Salted Caramel Cookies From Scratch?
Well… these aren’t technically from scratch, because we’ll be using a cake mix as a shortcut. But here’s what you’ll do to bake up a batch of these bakery style salted caramel cookies jam-packed with chocolate chips.
1. Cut each of your caramels into 8 smaller pieces.
2. Mix Cake Mix, Butter & Eggs in large bowl.
3. Stir in part of the Caramel pieces and Chocolate Chips.
4. Chill dough in refrigerator.
5. Form dough into balls.
6. Place a few more caramel pieces and chocolate chips into the top of dough balls.
7. Then bake these chocolate chip cookies with salted caramel in your oven.
8. Once done, cool, serve… and DEVOUR!
Easy peasy. Cake mix cookies recipes really do make preparing fresh baked cookies SO easy!
Scroll down for the printable recipe card with detailed, step-by-step instructions.
Make Ahead Tips
These chocolate cake mix cookies are SO easy to make ahead of time!
The salted caramel chocolate cookie dough can be made today, then stored covered in the refrigerator up to 2 days prior to baking your cookies.
Storage Tips
After your caramel chocolate chip cookies have baked and cooled, they will last well at room temperature, simply stored covered in an airtight container, for up to 3 days. That makes these easy Christmas cookies ideal for making ahead of time!
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Salted Caramel Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- 13.25 ounces Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix , (if using a 15.25 oz. box, increase butter to 1/2 cup)
- 1/3 cup Melted Butter, (Vegetable or Canola Oil can be substituted)
- 2 large Eggs
- 3/4 cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
- 1 cup Kraft Caramel Pieces (about 20 caramels), (an 11 oz. bag will be more than enough)
- 3/4 tsp. Coarse Sea Salt
Instructions
- Gather your ingredients.
- Unwrap caramels, and cut each caramel into 8 tiny pieces (This will make them similar to the size of chocolate chips.)
- Set 1/2 cup of caramel pieces aside and 1/4 cup of chocolate chips aside for later.
- Combine Cake Mix, Melted Butter (or oil), and Eggs in large mixing bowl, and mix with hand mixer or stand mixer until well combined.
- Add 1/2 cup of caramel pieces and 1/2 cup chocolate chips into batter, and stir until well combined.
- Cover dough and chill in refrigerator for 2 hours.
- After dough has chilled, preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. (This is essential, if you don’t the caramels will want to become one with your pans) 🙂
- Now it's time to grab the chocolate chips and caramel pieces you had set aside. Roll cookie dough into 1 1/2 tablespoon sized rounded balls and transfer to cookie sheet. Place a few chocolate chips and caramel pieces on top of each dough ball, to get that pretty finished look.
- Bake on center oven rack for 7 – 13 minutes, or until done. (Note: Bake on the shorter end of the time range for non-stick cookie sheets & longer end of the time range for aluminum cookie sheets.)
- Remove cookies from oven, and immediately sprinkle with a little coarse sea salt on top.
- Allow cookies cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes, then promptly transfer to cooling racks to let them finish cooling there. ENJOY!
Notes
- Butter: When it comes to cake mix cookies, salted or unsalted butter can be used, as the cake mix will have a little salt in it. However, I’ve found that salted butter will result in superior flavor.
- Make Ahead Tips: These salted caramel chocolate cookies are SO easy to make ahead of time! The salted caramel chocolate cookie dough can be made today, then stored covered in the refrigerator up to 2 days prior to baking your cookies.
- Storage Tips: After your caramel chocolate chip cookies have baked and cooled, they will last well at room temperature, simply stored covered in an airtight container, for up to 3 days.
- FAQ’s: For answers to Frequently Asked Questions or tips for common substitutions and variations, please refer to the detailed information above this recipe card.
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I have no idea how you come up with these cake cookie recipes, Heidi, but I swear every single one looks amazing. I love chocolate and caramel so this is totally up my alley! Can’t wait to try these. Hugs, CoCo
You’re so sweet… thanks, CoCo! I just love playing around with cake mixes, and creating tasty new cookie creations. I hope you love these. 🙂
You got me with anything that contains salted caramel. I need to make these!
Chocolate caramel cookies really are so dreamy, Kathrine… I hope you love them! 🙂
Ho ho ho ! Added to my Christmas list ! I am so sure Santa will ask for double batch ! LOL !
Hahaha… that’s wonderful – he definitely deserves a double batch of these! 🙂
I make cookies for kids snack box, and this recipe sounds perfect and I am sure they will love the chocolate and caramel flavors, thanks for sharing, Heidi!
You’re very welcome… I hope your kids love these treats! 🙂
My daughter is always looking for easy chocolate recipes to try. She would definitely love this.
That’s wonderful… I hope she has fun making them!
Mmm these cookies look delicious! Love the sweet and salty flavour profile!
Thanks, Michelle! It’s definitely one of my favorite combinations, too! 🙂
Chocolate and caramel go so well together! These cookies look full of flavor and will be perfect for holiday cookie trays.
Thanks, Tasia! And I agree… they really are just the perfect match, aren’t they? 🙂
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Merci
Merci beaucoup… ils sont si savoureux. 🙂
Cookie season is right at the corner :-)) These look excellent!
Thanks so much, Angie!!