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.

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

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!

 

 

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

 

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