Salted Caramel Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe

Salted Caramel Snickerdoodles

Written by Becky

Every year for the last three of four years I’ve been a part of a cookie swap to benefit different causes and every year I try out a new cookie recipe to swap with friends. I’ve made Hazelnut Lace Cookies, Ginger Creams, and last year Chocolate Gingersnaps. This year Josh chose snickerdoodles and then I decided to change them up a bit and made Salted Caramel Snickerdoodles. We made them twice, perfecting the recipe on second go. Now I am excited to share them with you and with our friends at the swap!

Salted Caramel Snickerdoodles
This year, the cookie swap was with a group of gals from our church, Missio Dei, along with some of our friends and neighbors. The money raised goes to an outreach for the Red Light District in Salt Lake. Yes, there’s a red light district here. Unbelievable, right?!! I’ll tell you a bit more…
Salted Caramel Snickerdoodles

Salt Lake City is no exception to the problems of prostitution and addiction. A group of women have started reaching out to the women in these areas by helping meet needs and giving them dignity wherever and whenever possible. They supply them with anything from a warm shower to a warm pair of gloves.

Salted Caramel Snickerdoodles

It’s easy to feel like we live in a place void of these types of issues but reality is no city is free from this. We can either choose to see or choose not to see. Our little cookie swap was just a small thing we can did help supply more resources to care for women in our own city who are in great need. And I hope to turn on the light to this issue for you today as well.

Salted Caramel Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe

Snickerdoodles seem like such a bright a cheery cookie compared to the subject matter on this post. Sorry for that in advance but I thought it was worth talking about. Our church, Missio Dei, also put out this video about the issue of prostitution facing our city. You can watch it here.
Hope you all find something to give back to this Christmas season!

Salted Caramel Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe

Salted Caramel Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe

Salted Caramel Snickerdoodles Recipe

Traditional snickerdoodle cookies taken to the next level with sea salt and caramel.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 2 dozen cookies

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 3/4 cup all purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon sea salt, divided
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 dozen caramels*

Instructions
 

  • Heat oven to 400 degrees.
  • Cream together butter (at room temp) and sugars, then add eggs one at a time.
  • Combine flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and 1/4 teaspoon salt, then add this to the butter mixture.
  • Using a small cookie scoop or a table spoon scoop out dough into a ball, flatten slightly then add a caramel (cut in half if they are really big). Sprinkle the caramel with sea salt, top with more dough, roll the dough around the caramel into a ball.
  • Combine the 2 tablespoons sugar and 2 teaspoons cinnamon with 1/4 teaspoon sea salt then roll the balls into the sugar/ cinnamon mixture.
  • Place balls 2 inches apart on a baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes.

Notes

*For the best results use soft caramels. If the caramels are hard before baking they will also return to being hard after the cookies are cooled. If you're using salted caramels, use less sea salt on top of the caramels. I used Piranske Soline Fleur de Sel from Liberty Heights Fresh for the salt and Fleur de Sel Caramels from Whole Foods.

Salted Caramel Snickerdoodles

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