eternalgratitude
Cookie Dough
A sugar cookie base with chunks of caramel and roasted cacao nibs. It worked alright -- the cookies are certainly edible -- but the caramel melted and spread, so the cookies have kind of holes in them with shallow pools of caramel, where I'd hoped they'd have the structural integrity to hold the chips intact inside.
Also, the sugar cookie base isn't as good a vehicle for the caramel as I'd hoped. I avoided a normal chocolate chip cookie dough base because the brown sugar already gives it enough caramel I figured it would just be bland, but even this, with all white sugar and AP flour, doesn't highlight the caramel well.
Jessica suggested lemon zest or juice in the cookie dough. I think that would help, but fundamentally I think it'll take more than minor tweaking to get from this attempt to my perfect caramel cookie.
Cookie Dough
A sugar cookie base with chunks of caramel and roasted cacao nibs. It worked alright -- the cookies are certainly edible -- but the caramel melted and spread, so the cookies have kind of holes in them with shallow pools of caramel, where I'd hoped they'd have the structural integrity to hold the chips intact inside.
Also, the sugar cookie base isn't as good a vehicle for the caramel as I'd hoped. I avoided a normal chocolate chip cookie dough base because the brown sugar already gives it enough caramel I figured it would just be bland, but even this, with all white sugar and AP flour, doesn't highlight the caramel well.
Jessica suggested lemon zest or juice in the cookie dough. I think that would help, but fundamentally I think it'll take more than minor tweaking to get from this attempt to my perfect caramel cookie.