Milky Way Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies

This was the 2nd cookie I decided to make, along with the funfetti cookies, to take over to my friends' house. It sounded like a good combination of a cookie and it definitely was. The sea salt added a lot of good flavor to the cookie. The cookie itself was really rich but oh so good. One thing I learned was that once the sheet came out of the oven, the cookies had to rest on the cookie sheet for at least 5 minutes before being transferred to a cookie rack, otherwise the caramel would drop out of the cookie. Other than that, the prep work was a little more time consuming but the cookies were pretty easy to make. I'd make these again! I found these on Pinterest as well via www.instructables.com.

Milky Way Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies (30+ cookies):

Pkg of Milky Way Simply Caramel Fun Size candy bars
4 c flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp sea salt
1 1/2 c unsalted butter, melted
2 c brown sugar
1 c granulated sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
3 c semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 325. Sift the flour with the salt and baking soda; set aside. In a mixer, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar. Once incorporated, beat in the eggs, then the vanilla. After the wet ingredients are combined, add in your dry ingredients. Mix until just combined and then add the chocolate chips.

Cut the milky way candies in half and dip them into sea salt to seal the open caramel end. Take a ball of dough, just big enough to cover the half-mini-bar, add more dough if needed. Roll into a ball and sprinkle the top with more sea salt.

Bake for 17 minutes on a cookie sheet. Let cool 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Enjoy!




The wet ingredients...






Chocolate chips mixed into the dough...






Sea salt...






Salting the cut end of the milky way...






About to wrap up the milky way into the dough...






Sprinkled with salt and ready to be baked...






Cooling on a cookie rack...






Enjoy!...