Great Job Bakers | Winning Recipe

Congratulations to our Holiday Cookie Contest winner:

KAT CROSS

Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Way to go, Kat! You won by a LANDSLIDE!

Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients
Your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe
24 caramels, unwrapped (from 14-oz bag)
2 tablespoons half-and-half
1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips, melted
1 teaspoon coarse sea salt

Directions
When cookies come out of the oven make a small indentation in the middle and allow to cool. Once cooled, spoon melted caramel into center of cookie to fill indentation and sprinkle a small amount of coarse sea salt over the caramel. After caramel has cooled and set, drizzle melted semi-sweet chocolate over the top of the cookie. Cookies can be left out for the chocolate to set or if you would like to speed up the process they can be placed in the refrigerator. When chocolate has hardened cookies are ready to be enjoyed!

Congratulations to our 2nd Place Winners

With appreciation to all who generously contributed cookies:

And an extra warm thank you to Arlene Sobel for organizing and manning the cookie tables! She reported that the concert attendees thoroughly enjoyed all of your creations and donations — thank you!