Carmelita Cookies Caramel Stuffed Cookies And Cups

Make sure to try my Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies too!

I made these cookies back in 2013, but I thought the pictures needed a little bit of a spruce up because they are AMAZING! They’re a soft, buttery oatmeal chocolate chip cookie with gooey layer of caramel baked inside!

Carmelita Cookies Are The Ultimate Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie!What Are Carmelitas?What Ingredients Do You Need?How To Make Carmelita Cookies…The Cooling Process…Looking For More Caramel Stuffed Desserts? Try These…Get the Recipe

You’ll also sign up to get new recipes in your inbox. Δ These stuffed cookies are easy to make because we use a little shortcut for the caramel filling! We used a caramel filled chocolate candy (like Rolos) in the middle to do the heavy lifting here! They bake up beautifully if you follow some of the important tips below!

What Are Carmelitas?

Traditionally, Carmelitas are a cookie bar recipe. The crust and topping is a quick, buttery oat cookie with a layer of chocolate chips and caramel in the middle. They’re a quick, gorgeous cookie bar that is always a crowd pleaser. I KNEW I had to make a cookie version of the bars, and they turned out absolutely perfect!

What Ingredients Do You Need?

You might have most of these ingredients in your pantry now! Here’a list:

butter light brown sugareggsvanilla extractbaking sodakosher saltall purpose flourquick oats…you can also use old fashioned (or rolled oats) if that’s all you have, but I prefer smaller, quick oats, for these cookies for best results.semi-sweet chocolate chipscaramel filled chocolate candies

What Kind Of Caramel Candies Are Recommended?

I have made these cookies with different kinds of caramel candy.

Rolo. These seem to be the easiest to find, and they work perfectly!Caramello. These come in bar form, and you can easily freeze the bars and break them into squares to use in the cookies!Dove Promises. They make these ina few different caramel variations and they would all work great!Ghirardeilli Squares. These are a little larger than the other candies I’ve mentioned, but they would still work! Just make sure they’re all inside the cookie dough.

How To Make Carmelita Cookies…

Why Do You Have To Freeze The Candy?

This step is one I HIGHLY recommend for these cookies. The frozen candy has less of a chance of melting out of the chocolate during baking if you start out frozen. Caramel, if it does get baked, can burn quickly and get hard, so starting with a frozen candy helps prevent this from happening and escaping from the dough.

The Cooling Process…

Allow these cookies to cool on the baking sheet for as long as you can. The caramel candy sinks to the bottom of the dough while baking (totally normal) and if you try and mix the cookie before it’s cooled, the candy may drop out of the cookie. The caramel inside needs to set back up because it will be gooey and because a mess if moved while hot!