Salted Caramel Topped Double Thick Chocolate Chip Cookies...Random Thoughts

You know when I was growing up, they used to say if you had salt it was like this natural healing stuff. It would kill bacteria. It would preserve food. It would magically make a pretzel taste good. If you rubbed it in the eyes of a snooty neighborhood bully...they would run away screaming and cry (and simultaneously wet their pants)whenever you crossed the road. Not that I ever did that. I did use it on the snails in my granny's backyard...and she paid us to do it. At the time, ironically, I didn't find it cruel to see them bubble like that. Now, before you freak out and call the animal rights activist, it was her way of keeping the pests out of the garden...and some of them where actually the grand kids and not the snails. You know who you are "Luke Sky-walker-cousin-whacker". No...I actually would not prefer to be back in my cell "Han Solo pesky brother figure". Ironically, brother figure still calls me "your worshipfulness-your highness". I'm starting to think he means it.

Now, growing up if I had put a big melting glob of heavenly buttery sweet caramel on a thick chocolate chunky cookie and then added some Sicilian sea salt...I'm sure my granny would have made me take it off. Well...I'm not a kid anymore. There aren't any mass snail-genocides in the sand box. I've almost fully recovered from Luke's vicious attack. There are however these little pests.

Do the trace minerals in the salt really make up for the twelve hundred calories per bite? Do they? No amount of double talk can make up for that. Who has time to talk when their mouth is full of sultry warm melted chocolate chips embedded under a blanket of goo?

The other thing is they aren't the size of a snail. They are the size of a Frisbee. Yes...that is a full size dinner plate.

Well Evil Tara...when are we getting back together to make caramel chocolate cheesecake lollies...lightly salted and snail free?

I don't know if the world is ready for that. Will I ever post the recipe for those salted caramel chocolate chip cookies...no. The world isn't ready for that either. Really...

That's all I have to say about that.

Out of mercy to you salivating evil genius guys and dolls out there, I guess I can post that the chocolate chip cookie recipe came from here: Chocolate chip cookies of love. We used 2 cups of oat flour in place of two of the cups of regular all purpose flour. Along with the chocolate chips, we topped the cookies with chunks of Guitard chocolate before baking.
Peter's Caramel, cut it a thick slice from the 5lb block, placed on the cookie after it baked and was still warm. McCormick's Sicilian Sea Salt.

See how benevolent I can be now? Poor poor bubbling snails. They never had such a recipe offered to them. See how I've grown?