FaLaLaLa Salted Carmel

There will always be cookies found around our places come the holidays. I quiet literally bake thousands of them each year, finding flour, sugar and butter in every nook and cranny for months to come and one of my most popular cookies is the Salted Caramel, usually cut into a fun shapes like a tree or if I'm feeling particularly overwhelmed that year, a "Christmas ball," I bake about four dozen every holiday even more throughout the year, and they disappear almost faster then I can make them. I even murdered my share of mixers on my cookie escapade. But It's worth it in the end for I truly believe no one should go without something at Christmas, even if that something is a card with just a cookie or twelve.

so this year along with cookies marching along to everyone I can slip them to, I am sharing my most popular cookie recipe with you!

This recipe makes three to four dozen cookies.

Helpful tips:

* make sure your eggs and butter are at room temperature, if you forget putting your eggs in warm water for a few minutes and/or microwaving the butter does great in a pinch.

* These freeze great and can be made a well ahead of time

* leave yourself lots of baking time. These are a great bake for multi-taskers

* Do a test bake, depending on the size or shape of your cookie, time can very, doing a test bake of one cookie can be a big help come the other rounds.

Shopping list:

white flour ( 3 cups )

white sugar (1 cup)

brown sugar (2 cups )

baking soda (1 tsp)

baking powder ( 1 tsp )

small milk ( 2 tbs )

eggs (2 room temp )

table salt (1 tsp)

corse salt (1 cup)

salted butter ( 1 cup room temp )

salted Carmel Chips ( 1.5 cups )

vanilla (1 tbs )

You're also going to need 4 bowls, 2 large or medium ones and two small ones. A stand or hand mixer ( or some good strong arms ), all your baking pans, parchment or cookie sheets, a cooling rack and 2 spatulas ( or one and a cloth to dry it with between washings)

the recipe is simple enough, but it does take some time for cooking all of those lovely little cookies! so pre-heat your oven to 350 and grab your bowls!

In the the small bowls put one cup of brown sugar, and one cup of corse salt setting them aside for later.

mix all your dry ingredient's in a large bowl: 3 cups flour, 1 cup white sugar, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder and tsp salt.

In the other larger bowl or your stand mixer, mix all the wet ingredients together: 2 tbs milk, 2 eggs, 1 cup room temp butter and 1 tbsp. vanilla.

Add the dry to the wet, quarter bowl at a time until incorporated, try not to over mix and then add your 1.5 cups of chips to the mix.

Now if you want to the cut them into fun shapes chill the mix for thirty minutes in the fridge and roll it out between two pieces of parchment before dipping your cutter in flour and cutting the cookie shape.

Bake for 8-10 minutes depending on the size and shape of your cookie. When the cookie comes out of the oven sprinkle them generously with the salt and brown sugar we set to the side earlier. Let them sit on the baking sheet for two to five minutes before moving to a cooling rack for another five. The salt and brown sugar will come off the cookies so shake off the parchment or cookie sheet of your choice between bakes.

Storage:

These stay good for about 2 weeks in an air tight container, freeze great! They go really good with a great big cup of coco! let me know if you try them, what you think and if you have any questions.