Vegan Salted Caramel Cookies

5 from 2 votes

These vegan salted caramel cookies and a fun twist on a classic. Delicious vegan thumbprint cookies made with a buttery dough and amazing caramel pour inside.

Prep Time30

Cook Time10

Total Time40

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Calories: 352kcal

Author: Andrew Bernard

Equipment

Candy Thermometer

Ingredients

For Cookie Dough

1 ¾ cup flour
¾ cup vegan butter, melted but not hot
2 tablespoon vegan cane sugar
½ tsp vanilla

For Vegan Caramel Sauce

¾ cup vegan butter
¾ cup brown sugar
⅛ teaspoon salt
¾ cup corn syrup
8 oz vegan condensed milk recipe
½ teaspoon vanilla
salt flakes for topping

Instructions

For the Cookie Dough

In a bowl, mix flour, melted butter, sugar, and vanilla together and then shape into a ball.
Cover with plastic wrap (or place in a bowl and cover the bowl) and place in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Pull the dough out and using a small scoop, form balls. There should be about 12-15.
Use your thumb or the back of a spoon to indent the center of each cookie.
Place on baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes.
After pulling out of oven, use the back of a spoon to gently press down on that imprint area again.
Place on a cooling rack and allow to cool completely.

Caramel Sauce (Make while cookies cool)

Grab a large saucepan and over medium low heat, add vegan butter, brown sugar and salt. Stir until brown sugar has dissolved.
Add in corn syrup and mix together.
Pour in vegan condensed milk and stir again.
Using a candy thermometer, boil mixture over medium until it reaches 240 degrees F*. Remove from heat as soon as it reaches that temperature. Add in the vanilla and stir together.
Let cool for a few minutes and add to the centers of cookies.
Once the caramel is cooled slightly but not all the way, add a few flakes of salt to the top.
Let cool the rest of the way and serve.

Notes

*Tip: If you live in a high altitude area, you will need to lower the temperate of how high your candy thermometer gets when cooking the vegan caramel sauce. A good rule of thumb is for every 1,000 feet above sea level, you should reduce the cooking temperature in the recipe by 2 degrees.

*See post for notes about Top 8 Allergy Free variation

**Nutritional facts are just estimates. Please utilize your own brand nutritional values to double check against our estimates.

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