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Stuff Your Cookie Dough With Caramels And Let The Magic Happen
By Nick Johnson
Whether you have homemade, store-bought, plastic-wrapped, or individual pieces of caramel, your next batch of cookies would benefit from being stuffed with the sugary substance.
Caramel generally appears as a smooth, creamy sauce, but it's also made in a solid, square form. These caramel cubes make magic happen when baked into cookies.
When the sticky, flavorful ingredient goes through a lengthy stint in the oven along with its cookie host, your dessert turns into a vessel for a chewy caramel center.
You should use soft caramel candies as opposed to the hard variety. Using hard caramel candy results in a dangerously hard core rather than a soft, chewy center.
Wrapping your caramel bits with cookie dough is the easiest way to create a caramel center, but you can also incorporate caramel by drizzling some on top of your cookies.
You can also use caramel candy in your cookies. Sandwich a Rolo between two balls of chilled cookie dough before baking it for a cookie with a caramel stretch in each bite.