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Home » Recipes » Desserts » Chocolate Chip Caramel Cookies Recipe

Chocolate Chip Caramel Cookies Recipe

by trisha haas

Get your taste buds ready, its fall, y’all! And that means cooking and baking and cooking some more- whether you like it or not!  Now I love to cook, but baking is still an ongoing teaching process for me and today was no exception. My thought process was to whip up some Chocolate Chip Caramel Nut Bars (recipe from Nestle) but apparently I cannot read and ended up with Chocolate Chip Caramel Cookies.

chocolate chip caramel cookie

Which, BTW, are divine.

The original recipe reads as follows:

Chocolate Chip Caramel Nut Bar recipe

Ingredients:

  • 1 pkg. (16.5 oz.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (softened, divided)
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (divided)
  • 1/2 cup caramel syrup or ice cream topping

Directions:

PREHEAT oven to 350° F. Grease 8-inch-square baking pan.

PRESS 3/4 package of cookie dough into prepared baking pan. Bake for 10 minutes

SPRINKLE 1/4 cup nuts over cookie crust; drizzle caramel syrup over nuts. Top with teaspoonfuls of remaining cookie dough; press gently into caramel syrup. Sprinkle with

remaining 1/4 cup nuts

BAKE for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are set. Cool completely in pan on wire rack

My unintentional but still totally awesome altered version of this recipe:

Chocolate Chip Caramel Cookies Recipe

  • 1 pkg. (16.5 oz.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (softened, divided)
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (divided)
  • 1/2 cup caramel syrup or ice cream topping
  • bag of mini Nestle Toll House chips, semi-sweet

chocolate chip caramel cookie recipe

PREHEAT oven to 350° F. Grease baking pan.

Make balls of dough and put on pan and bake for 10 minutes.

SPRINKLE 1/4 cup nuts over cookie crust; drizzle caramel syrup over nuts. Add extra mini chocolate chips, cause why not….

Top with teaspoonfuls of remaining cookie dough; press gently into caramel syrup. Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup nuts

BAKE for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are set. Cool completely in pan on wire rack.

Tip for the cookie version: If you put too much caramel it will spread onto the pan and burn the edges of your cookies. Once cookies are completely cool you can actually break the extra caramel off or even use a pizza cutter around the edges.

The moral is that sugar burns if you are a messy baker like I am.

There are quite a few worth pinning!

 

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Chocolate Chip Caramel Cookies
What You Need
  • 1 pkg. 16.5 oz. NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (softened, divided)
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts divided
  • 1/2 cup caramel syrup or ice cream topping
Instructions
  1. PREHEAT oven to 350° F. Grease 8-inch-square baking pan.
  2. PRESS 3/4 package of cookie dough into prepared baking pan. Bake for 10 minutes
  3. SPRINKLE 1/4 cup nuts over cookie crust; drizzle caramel syrup over nuts. Top with teaspoonfuls of remaining cookie dough; press gently into caramel syrup. Sprinkle with
  4. remaining 1/4 cup nuts
  5. BAKE for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are set. Cool completely in pan on wire rack

 

Want another awesome cookie recipe? Try Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies before you go! The perfect cookies to frost as a family this season.

 

Chocolate Chip Caramel Cookie Recipe + Chocolate Chip Caramel Nut Bars Recipe, yum!

Click {here} for a quick and easy paper craft gift bag for a cute presentation of these delicious cookies!

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Comments

  1. Maryann says

    November 14, 2012 at 11:23 am

    We love anything pumpkin flavored and I adore caramel. I actually made my own from honey.

  2. Kelly @ Texas Type A Mom says

    November 13, 2012 at 11:23 am

    The kitty in your pictures is hilarious! I enjoy nuts but am kind of weird and usually don’t like them in my cookies – I’ll make an exception for these though!

  3. Sara Phillips says

    November 13, 2012 at 11:12 am

    These look awesome!!

    My favorite fall flavor … caramel (probably)!

  4. Jen-Eighty MPH Mom says

    November 13, 2012 at 10:42 am

    Oh my. These look fantastic. I giggled when I saw your kitty – that is the cutest face ever! He was just “helping” you 🙂

    • Jen-Eighty MPH Mom says

      November 13, 2012 at 10:43 am

      I mean SHE!

  5. Nicole Robinson @TheBookWormMama says

    November 13, 2012 at 4:59 am

    Those cookies look so good. I have to pin them to my Good Food = Love board.

  6. Hanan says

    November 13, 2012 at 3:31 am

    Those sound absolutely delicious, darn you!!

  7. Shop with Me Mama says

    November 12, 2012 at 10:55 pm

    OMG yum!! And LOVE the kitty!!

  8. Virginia from That Bald Chick says

    November 12, 2012 at 10:21 pm

    Looks like a fabulous mistake!

  9. Rachel at managedmoms.com says

    November 12, 2012 at 9:15 pm

    I love your kitty! We have a female black cat, too and she is awesome! And she eats whipped cream if it is left out! Can’t wait to try this yummy recipe! Thanks for sharing!

  10. Cat Davis - Food Family Finds says

    November 12, 2012 at 8:24 pm

    Cookies, bars … they’re all the same to me … YUMMY!

  11. Stefani says

    November 12, 2012 at 7:41 pm

    You have had me wanting chocolate chip cookies with walnuts since I seen your picture of them on Facebook. YUMMY!

    • Trisha says

      November 12, 2012 at 7:51 pm

      One thing i love about fall is walnuts..and my grandmother has had them in her cookie recipe for years so its kinda nostalgic for me.

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