Salted Caramel Sugar Cookies

Oh my...you guys! These are SO good! I'm telling you! So. Good. Sugar cookies are one of my favorites and also caramel and also salted caramel so tweaking my recipe a little tiny bit made for a great little cookie! They are so tender but the caramel bits inside make them so yummy!! As soon as we polished off this batch, IT Guy asked when we'd (and by WE he meant ME) be making these again. You definitely want to put these on your "to make" list for the holidays.

Salted Caramel Sugar Cookies




1/2 cup sugar1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 egg
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tarter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 10-ounce bag caramel bits (found in the baking aisle next to the chocolate chips)

Place parchment paper on cookie pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream sugars with butter and shortening.

Add the egg and mix well.

Add dry ingredients and mix well then add the vanilla.

Gently mix in caramel bits.

Scoop into 1 inch balls and place on prepared pan.

Flatten dough balls and sprinkle with a little sugar.

Bake for about 10 minutes.

Allow cookies to cool on cookies sheets for a few minutes before moving to a cooling rack.

Makes about 2 - 3 dozen


 
The goods.

 
Cream sugars with butter and shortening.

 
Add the egg.

 
Then the dry ingredients.

 
Add the vanilla.

 
Now the caramel bits.

 
Scoop, flatten, sprinkle, bake!



 
Eat!