These decadent Salted Caramel Rolo Brownie Cookies are gooey and chocolatey on the inside, and chewy and salted on the outside. You only need a few basic pantry ingredients and a short stint in the oven to make these amazing, sweet-and-salty chocolate caramel cookies!
Super Chocolatey Salted Caramel Cookies
Is it a brownie? Is it a cookie? Well, the truth is, it’s both. These salted caramel cookies are fudgy and chocolatey like a brownie, while baking up like a cookie filled with Rolo caramel candies. The “salted” bit is thanks to a light dusting of flaked sea salt.
These salted caramel brownie cookies are one of my ultimate comfort foods. They’re my “ease back into real life after vacation” cookies. They’re also my “get well after a cold” cookies, and my “still recovering from the last episode of The Bachelor” cookies.
I can’t wait for you to try these fudgy brownie cookies – they’re just the best combination of sweet-salty-chewy, and all around YUM!
What You’ll Need
- Semi Sweet Chocolate: Use a slab and chop it into pieces, or you can use dark chocolate chips.
- Butter: Since there is salt added to these salted caramel cookies after the fact, I recommend sticking with unsalted butter for this recipe.
- Eggs
- Sugar: I use regular white granulated sugar.
- Vanilla Extract: These cookies taste the best when they’re made with natural, pure vanilla extract.
- Flour
- Baking Powder: For leavening.
- Rolo Candies: You’ll need about 30-35 Rolo pieces (or a similar caramel candy) for this recipe, chopped up.
- Sea Salt: For sprinkling over the cookies. Make sure to use flaky or coarse sea salt and not table salt. Trust me!
How to Make Salted Caramel Rolo Brownie Cookies
These are the perfect cookies to whip up at a moment’s notice. Simple to make and bake, and never a disappointment! Here’s how to make your own ooey-gooey salted caramel cookies:
Melt the Chocolate: Melt together the chocolate and butter over a double boiler.
Make the Dough: Combine the eggs and wet ingredients in one bowl, and the flour and dry ingredients in another. Gradually add the melted chocolate into the wet ingredients. Once that’s combined, you’ll stir in the flour mixture and the chopped Rolos.
Bake: Scoop and drop tablespoons of dough onto a lined baking sheet. Bake the chocolate caramel cookies in the oven until they’re just set in the center. Be careful to not overbake!
Finish and Cool: Give the cookies a light sprinkling of flaked sea salt as they come out of the oven. Then leave them on the baking sheet for a few minutes before moving them off to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Tips for the Best Results
- Don’t Overbake the Cookies: I repeat: do not overbake! The cookies will come out of the oven just barely set, and will even look a bit underdone. But resist leaving them in longer! They’ll continue to set up as they cool on the baking sheet, for the perfect chewy cookie.
- Can I Use Another Caramel Candy?: Yes, but I recommend sticking to something similar to Rolo – think chocolate candies with soft caramel centers. You can use another kind, like chewy caramels, keeping in mind that the texture will be fimer.
- Use a Cookie Scoop: If you’re after more uniform, same-sized cookies, use a cookie scoop when dropping the dough onto the baking sheet.
Variation & Serving Ideas
Can’t get your hands on Rolos? Use soft caramels, or caramel chips instead!
If you’re not a caramel fan, you can most definitely swap out the Rolos with another chocolate candy, like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, instead. They won’t technically be salted caramel cookies in this case, but you get my drift!
When it comes to serving, I love topping these fudgy brownie cookies with a drizzle of Caramel Sauce or a scoop of my 2-Ingredient Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream. They’re also fabulous to dunk in a tall glass of milk!
Storage Instructions
Store these salted caramel cookies airtight on the counter for up to 3-4 days.
Can I Freeze These?
Yes! The baked cookies freeze super well. I like to pre-freeze the cookies on a baking sheet, and then transfer them to a freezer-bag to store for up to 3 months – though they rarely last that long in this house!
More Decadent Cookie Recipes
- Salted Chocolate Cookies
- Fudgy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
- Salted Honey Chewy Pumpkin Cookies
- Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Salted Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Salted Caramel Rolo Brownie Cookies
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Total Time: 27 minutes
- Yield: 28 cookies 1x
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
These decadent Salted Caramel Rolo Brownie Cookies are gooey and chocolatey on the inside, and chewy and salted on the outside. You only need a few basic pantry ingredients and a short stint in the oven to make these amazing, sweet-and-salty chocolate caramel cookies!
Ingredients
- 16 oz semi sweet chocolate, chopped
- 4 Tbsp butter
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/2 cups chopped Rolo candies, approx 30-35 pieces
- flaked sea salt for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Line baking sheets with parchment paper, set aside
- Over a double boiler, melt the chopped chocolate and butter together.
- Meanwhile in large bowl combine eggs, sugar and vanilla, whisking until combined.
- In a smaller bowl, combine flour and baking powder, set this aside also.
- When chocolate is melted, slowly add it to the egg and sugar mixture in small amounts, stirring vigorously until incorporated.
- When chocolate and egg mixture is combined, stir in the flour mixture.
- Fold in the chopped Rolo candies.
- Drop by heaping tablespoon on prepared baking sheet.
- Bake 10-12 minutes until centers are just set.
- When cookies are done, remove from oven and immediately sprinkle with flaked sea salt.
- Let cool on baking sheet for 3-4 minutes before transferring to wire rack to finish cooling.
Notes
recipe adapted from Brown Eyed Baker
I 100% agree with you on the “ease back” allowance. Real life is like a shock to the vacation spoiled system! These cookie are all of my favorite things in one! I MUST make them ASAP. Thanks so much for sharing!
these look decadently rich and awesome! i know what you mean by trying to get back into the swing of things after vaca…definitely NOT a fan of it!! maybe a dozen of these cookies can help ease me back in next time 😉
Delicious!
Is that jar of caramel left over from those caramel cheesecake brownie bars you made the other day??? I didn’t think so. These cookies need a nice big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. And maybe some more of that caramel sauce!
These are cookie-candy heaven!
Need the caramel sauce at the end. Definitely required!
Those look too good to be true! I must try these at some point!
Well, I guess I will “have” to make these when I get back from vacation at the end of next week. Because I also agree that you need a day or two to ease back into real life.
omygaaahhsh. i need these in my face right now.
the salt, the caramel, the chocolate. what is not to love in these? I have a package of rolos waiting to take a chocolate brownie bath too…