I know you love sweets. You are one of my favorite people to cook for because the smile you get when you taste my food is so gratifying to me. So, it's probably no surprise to you that I decided to make you a little something special from my kitchen on your special day. May the next year be extremely happy for you- filled with hugs and kisses from all the people that you love and all the people that love you. Happy, happy birthday to you!! :)
xo,
Rachel
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
10 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Caramel sauce (recipe found here)
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.
- Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt together in a bowl and set aside.
- In a separate bowl, cream together the butter, regular sugar and brown sugar. Beat it for about 3 minutes until the butter/sugar mixture is fluffy.
- Add in one egg at a time and wait until the first egg is incorporated completely before adding in the next egg.
- Add in the vanilla extract next and beat until it is fully incorporated.
- Add the dry mixture in a quarter at a time. If you add it in all at once, you'll get powder everywhere so doing it in increments makes it a little more manageable in my opinion.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and form 1 tbsp of the batter into a small ball. These cookies don't spread out too much so you don't need to place them too far apart from each other. Repeat until you fill up the baking sheet.
- Using your index finger, make a deep indentation in the center of the ball. Carefully fill the indentation with some of the caramel sauce. Cover the caramel with a little more batter so that the caramel is sealed inside the cookie completely.
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- Remove the cookies from the oven and allow to cool for about 5 minutes before moving to a cooling rack.
- Repeat the last 4 steps until you run out of batter. This recipe made about 1.5 dozen cookies for me (20 cookies)
These cookies are kind of a mix between a cookie and a brownie. The caramel sauce actually just ends up keeping the center very nice and moist (Dana's least favorite word, though one of the most delicious words to hear when talking about baked goods- ironic, isn't it??). If you wanted, you could probably bake other sweets into the center like peppermint chocolate bark or your favorite candy bar bits! Let those creative juices flow. :) Enjoy!
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