Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Kitchen Sink Cookies (Panera Copycat)

Recipe found here

Ingredients:
  • 1 cup (or 2 sticks or 16 tbsp. or 8 oz.) unsalted butter, browned
  • 1 and 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 and 1/2 cups brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs, room temperature
  • 2 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 and 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. sea sat + more for sprinkling
  • 3/4 cup broken pretzels + more for top
  • 1 and 1/2 cups caramel bits (I used Kraft caramel bits) + more for top
  • 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips + more for top
Preparation:
  • Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper or silicone baking mat. Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
  • To brown the butter: In a (preferably light colored) saucepan, melt butter over medium heat, whisking as it melts, foams, bubbles, and eventually little brown bits form and it turns amber. Immediately pour into a large, heatproof, bowl, and use a spatula to scrape all the little brown bits into the bowl. I recommend letting the browned butter cool a bit so it doesn't melt the chocolate chips :)
  • Using a stand or hand mixer, beat the vanilla and sugars into the butter for a couple minutes, until it lightens a bit.
  • Beat in eggs for about 30 seconds.
  • Add the baking powder, 1/2 tsp. salt, and about a third of the flour. Mix slowly, add another third of flour, mix, and add the last of the flour until just combined. 
  • Stir in the pretzels, caramel bits, and chocolate chips until evenly distributed.
  • Scoop out very large balls of dough (at least 1/4 cup, but could be bigger, up to 1/2 cup size) and place on prepared baking sheet, leaving plenty of space in between (will need to do multiple batches.) Add more broken pretzel pieces, caramel bits, and chocolate chips to the tops of the dough balls to preference. Sprinkle with sea salt.
  • Bake 12-14 minutes (this will vary, though, according to the size of your cookies), until golden around the edges. Remove and allow to cool on the sheet for 5 minutes. Then, transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely. 

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