Caramel Popcorn Cookies are made with brown sugar cookie dough with chewy, crunchy, caramel popcorn pieces all throughout the cookie. If you love caramel, you are going to love these Caramel Corn Cookies!
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time12 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: caramel corn cookies, caramel popcorn cookies
In a large bowl, cream together butter, brown sugar, and sugar for 4 minutes. scrape the sides of the bowl, halfway through the time to ensure even mixing. This helps to give the butter time to coat the sugar crystals to create a smooth and creamy cookie texture
Add egg, egg yolk, and vanilla and mix for 1 minute longer.
Fold in flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Add in 4 cups of caramel corn and mix for about 30 seconds to 1 minute to help break up some of the caramel corn into smaller pieces.
Cover and chill in the refrigerator for 15-30 minutes. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line light-colored baking sheets with parchment paper. Drop cookie dough onto baking sheet and make sure to spread them apart in case of spreading.
Top each cookie dough ball with a few caramel corns. Bake at 350 degrees for 11-14 minutes.
When you remove them from the oven, if the cookies have spread, take a spatula and carefully press the edges of the cookie towards the center to shape it into a circle. To make the cookies look extra gourmet, add a few more caramel corn balls on top of the cookies. For an extra salty-sweet cookie, sprinkle with sea salt flakes.
Notes
Caramel Corn -- use homemade caramel corn or store-bought caramel corn. I have used both homemade and store-bought with great success. This recipe calls for 4-6 cups of caramel corn. A typical bag of caramel corn is 6 cups for 8 ounces.
I add 4 to 5 cups of caramel corn to the cookie dough and save the remaining 1 cup to place on the top of the cookies right before and after baking.