Salted Caramel Stuffed Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Published November 26, 2012. Updated January 6, 2019

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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies stuffed with a layer of decadent chewy caramel and finished with a blizzard of powdered sugar! Talk about decadent holiday cookie!

Caramel Stuffed Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Hello Christmas Cookie Season!! I’m obsessed with cookies so this gives me one more reason to love the holidays. I created this recipe to be a no refrigeration necessary recipe. A lot of chocolate crinkle cookie recipes require that the dough be refrigerated 2 – 4 hours before baking, I don’t have time for that =). Mostly I just don’t have the patience for that especially when I know what awaits me.

If you prefer you can omit the coarse sea salt from the recipe if you are not a fan of salted caramel. I personally am unequivocally in love with the addition. These taste like caramel brownies in cookie form. They are intensely delicious! If you are baking them for someone else you’ll have a hard time wanting to gift them after all =). If you wanted to go all out with these cookies you could even toss in some semi-sweet chocolate chips and toasted nuts.  Enjoy!

Caramel Stuffed Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

 

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Salted Caramel Stuffed Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies stuffed with a layer of decadent chewy caramel and finished with a blizzard of powdered sugar! Talk about decadent holiday cookie!
Servings: 24
Prep20 minutes
Cook22 minutes
Ready in: 42 minutes

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt, set aside. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fit with a paddle attachment, whip together butter, granulated sugar and light-brown sugar on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add in eggs one at a time, stirring after each addition until combine. Mix in vanilla. With mixer set on low speed, slowly add in dry ingredients and mix just until combine.
  • Scoop dough out 2 tbsp at a time and roll into a ball. Press one caramel into the center, sprinkle top of caramel with a small pinch of coarse sea salt then fold cookie dough around caramel and salt (make sure the caramel is fully covered with dough around all sides). Shape into a ball once more then roll in powdered sugar*. Align cookies on Silpat lined or buttered cookie sheets and bake in preheated oven 11 - 13 minutes. Allow to cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool (note that the caramel will set after it cools, I liked these cookies best warm for soft gooey caramel). Store in an airtight container.
  • *I gave my cookies a generous coating of the powdered sugar before baking, but when they baked a lot of the powdered sugar baked and dissolved into the cookie anyway. So I found you can coat the top again with powdered sugar after baking (which is not pictured) to get a prettier cookie. If doing so roll in powdered sugar once before baking (doesn't need to be generously), then bake them and allow to cool and dip the tops of cookies in a fresh batch of powdered sugar (so there is no cross contamination) and shake off some of the excess. If you want to do it that way I would recommend using 1/2 cup powdered sugar for rolling before baking and reserve 1/4 cup in a separate bowl to dip and coat the tops after baking.
  • Recipe Source: Cooking Classy

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120 Comments

  • Heather

    Hi, I made these last night. They looked great when I pulled them out of the oven. I followed all your tips, but had problems getting them to release from the pan. Second pan, I lifted them a little sooner to the rack, and the caramel oozed out the bottoms…and right through the rack! What did I do wrong? I’d like to try again!

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      Just be sure the caramel is entirely enclosed by cookie dough before baking, also I’d probably recommend a Silpat (silicone) cookie sheet liner or parchment paper instead of buttering. Hope that helps!

  • Ashley

    Help! I just made these cookies for a cookie exchange and they are totally flat with no crinkle. The dough was quite soft so I chilled them in the fridge overnight and then covered my hands in icing sugar to roll them. I put caramilk squares in the middle for the caramel, and didn’t roll them in powdered sugar before baking (with the plan to roll them in sugar after baking). How do I get the beautiful crinkle?

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      It sounds like they probably just needed more flour. It may be due to humidity or the way the flour is measured but I would try adding a bit more and hopefully that helps!

  • MaureenPrim

    Just wanted to share that I baked these last night for a Scandal-watching party and they were outstanding! I made the dough on Wednesday night and refrigerated. Last night I pulled the dough from the fridge and let sit for 20 minutes. Then I scooped the dough, wrapped around the caramels and baked. I rolled the dough heavily in powdered sugar before baking and they looked awesome after cooling. They were definitely a hit! Today at the office someone said 12 seconds is the perfect length of time to microwave for a gooey center.

    Thanks so much for sharing! I’ll definitely add to my recipe book.

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      I’m so glad they were enjoyed Maureen! Thanks for your comment and tips!

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    Hi from Holland!

    I think something went totally wrong with my cookies because them cam out totally flat. What do you think could go wrong?

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  • Chelsea

    I just made these and used caramel dip that you usually have with apples. They turned out delicious! So much so that my husband ate 10 of them before they even cooled off!

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      Sounds about like me :), I’m so happy to hear they were enjoyed! Thanks for leaving a comment Chelsea!