I’m quite sure
that Santa is a foodie. I truly
believe that “between season” he spends lots of time sipping on ice wine while cooking
and baking with Mrs. Claus. I
don’t want to spread rumors but I’ve heard he is into trendy venison burgers
and cool maple bacon snowcones.
And I know for a fact that he would never turn down anything that
incorporates the latest salted caramel craze.
You know I love
that salty sweet thang – ala the Sweet & Salty Chocolate Pretzel Shortbread
– and so does Santa.
So I made him these
sorta salted caramel chocolate chip cookies and here is how I made them.
Ingredients:
2 ½ cups flour
½ tsp
baking soda
¼ tsp
kosher salt (heaping)
1 cup butter,
room temperature is best
½ cup
sugar
1 ½ tsp vanilla
1 large egg
2 cups chocolate
chips – milk or dark chocolate whatever you love
½ cup Hershey’s
Skor Toffee Bits
Directions:
Preheat oven to
3500.
Combine flour,
baking soda, salt, chocolate chips & skor bits in a bowl. Set aside.
Cream butter,
brown sugar, egg & vanilla until fluffy.
Add flour,
chocolate chips and skor bits on a low speed until flour mixes in.
Use a small ice
cream scoop to make cookie balls about ¼
cup.
Place on
parchment lined (always!) cookie sheets.
NOTE: The cookies spread quite a lot. I have large (16”x21.5”) sheets
and I put 15 on each sheet (the recipe makes 30 large cookies) – so judge
accordingly.
Bake for 12-15
minutes.
Remove from oven,
let cool and place on plate for the big guy. I used a “fancy” glass for his milk but these would also go
very nicely with a glass of scotch (which Santa may really enjoy as he works so
hard one day a year;)
My only fear with
these cookies is that Santa may not leave to make it around the world
delivering gifts, but make them anyways because they are so good.
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