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!
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!
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!
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- 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 also think the day BEFORE vacation should count. As a prep day. And on that day, noone can expect anything of you!!
This look amazing. I could eat that salted caramel with a spoon!! Or shovel. Whatevs.
I’m looking for a way to figure out a permanent vacation somehow. Real, daily life, it’s not fair. Not fair at all.
Like these cookie brownie things — a lot!
I saw these on Pinterest yesterday! They look amazing.
love chocolate! love salted caramel…love you!! my baking to try list is getting really long with the great recipes I find on your blog. Thanks : )
I know all I ever say is these look so good and I want them bad, but that’s the effect you have on me. These look amazing.
vacations are totally hard work, well the coming home part. I am totally on board with the sweet and salty. I just made salted rolo chocolate chip cookies. Totally doing brownie cookies next time! fantastic.
Salt and caramel and brownies and cookies? You really are a dream come true!
1. You hit the nail on the head about needing a vacation after a vacation. We usually vacation with my parents siblings, and their vacation speed is about a million miles per minute. It’s about as much work to relax with them as it would be to actually work! We’re ALWAYS dying by the time we get home!
2. This recipe = decadent. beautiful. perfect. love it.
3. I might have peed my pants a little when I saw my name linked at the bottom of the post. Thanks for that 😉
I might need a vacation after the food coma that will ensue when I make and possibly devour a whole batch of these by myself. Nothing is better than chocolate and salted caramel. I’m convinced.
I am a huge fan of rolos! And you are genious for always adding in the salted caramel. I hope that one day I am that creative!