Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon coarse salt
• 1 3/4 cups brown sugar
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups chocolate chips
• 18 unwrapped caramel candies (such as Werther’s), each cut into 6 pieces

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl.

Beat brown sugar, butter, and white sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until creamy. Beat eggs, 1 at a time, into butter mixture until blended; beat in vanilla extract. Stir flour mixture into butter mixture until dough is just combined; fold in chocolate chips.

Divide dough into thirty six 2 tablespoon-size balls; arrange on a baking sheet. Press 3 caramel pieces into each dough ball.

Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden brown, 13 to 15 minutes. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool.