Salted Caramel Sugar Cookies
Amazing salted caramel sugar cookie recipe - a soft sugar cookie base with a brown sugar caramel icing that will be the hit of your next cookie exchange!
Ingredients
- 1 cup salted butter softened
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- 1¼ cups brown sugar packed
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 6 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
- 2 tablespoons butter softened
- 3 tablespoons milk
- ½ cup brown sugar packed
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions
- 1
In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer, combine butter, oil, sugars, water and vanilla until smooth.
- 2
Add eggs and mix until just combined.
- 3
In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, salt, baking soda and cream of tartar.
- 4
Gradually blend dry ingredients into wet ingredients.
- 5
Refrigerate dough 30 minutes and preheat oven to 350°F.
- 6
On a parchment lined cookie sheet, drop large (golf ball size) dough balls and press with a small greased glass to flatten and use the back of a spoon to make a pool for the icing.
- 7
Bake 8 minutes.
- 8
Cream butter, milk, sugars, vanilla and salt until creamy.
- 9
Using a teaspoon, fill the baked sugar cookies.