These simple chocolate chip cookies have a sweet surprise inside. Take a bite and you’ll find an indulgent dulce de leche filling. It’s what your chocolate chip cookies have been missing.
Our dulce de leche stuffed chocolate chip cookies are a Tasteseekers Kitchen favorite. Since favorite recipes are meant to be shared, we bake up a batch of these cookies whenever someone visits our Kitchen. We’ve been told they are dulce de-licious!
Dulce de Leche Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
6 tablespoons dulce de leche (caramelized sweetened condensed milk from a 13.4 ounce can)
3/4 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 large egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Directions
Line a baking sheet with waxed paper or parchment paper. Use a 1/2 teaspoon measure to spoon dulce de leche into 36 mounds on lined baking sheet. Freeze 1 hour or until slightly firm (it will not freeze solid).
Heat oven to 350ºF. In a large bowl, beat butter, sugars, vanilla and egg with an electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt. Stir in chocolate chips. (Dough will be stiff.)
Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Drop cookie dough by small cookie scoop or 1 rounded tablespoonful about 3 inches apart onto parchment-lined cookie sheets. Press thumb into center of each cookie to make deep indentation, but do not press all the way to cookie sheet. Place 1 frozen mound of the dulce de leche into center of each cookie; form dough around dulce de leche to enclose.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until light brown (centers will be soft). Cool 1 to 2 minutes on cookie sheets. Remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks; cool completely.
Prep Time: 45 Minutes | Total Time: 2 Hours 30 minutes | Makes: 36 cookies
Tip: The dulce de leche mounds should be cold when you form cookie dough around them. Be sure to pop the dulce de leche mounds back in the freezer between forming and baking batches of the cookies.
P.S. These cookies make amazing ice cream sandwiches!