These Salted Dulce De Leche Cookie Bars are a chewy chocolate chip cookie bar made with browned butter, swirled with sweet dulce de leche, and sprinkled with flaky sea salt!

These Salted Dulce De Leche Cookie Bars are a chewy chocolate chip cookie bar made with browned butter, swirled with sweet dulce de leche, and sprinkled with flaky sea salt!

I just finished my first homework assignment for my junior year of college. Whaaat?

It feels like it was a couple months ago that I was writing a post about choosing a college. Now I’m halfway done. I know it’s a cliche, but seriously, where has all the time gone?

I have this semester at school, next semester I’ll be studying abroad in London, and then, I’ll be a senior. It’s incredibly bizarre and I’m trying to convince myself I’m actually halfway done with my college years.

These Salted Dulce De Leche Cookie Bars are a chewy chocolate chip cookie bar made with browned butter, swirled with sweet dulce de leche, and sprinkled with flaky sea salt!

On the plus side: I’m finally living in a house, instead of the dorms or my sorority house, which means I finally have a kitchen. Oh my goodness, I’ve been waiting for this. I can finally bake when I want, without having to lug all my stuff from my room to the kitchen. Lazy girl problems, but it’s been a real issue.

Hopefully (for both my friends here and for you all!), this will mean it will be way easier for me to both bake, photograph, and post while at school. Finally!

One of the first things on the to-make here list are these bars. I need to make them for my friends here as soon as possible because simply put, they are easily in the top 3 most delicious things I’ve ever made, if not the best.

These Salted Dulce De Leche Cookie Bars are a chewy chocolate chip cookie bar made with browned butter, swirled with sweet dulce de leche, and sprinkled with flaky sea salt!

They are soft and squishy on the inside, the edges are delightfully chewy with the slightest bit of crunch. The chocolate is melty and amazing. To make the dough, we make the brown butter and use brown sugar to create a super buttery and caramelly taste. All this caramelly goodness is further amplified by the layer of dulce de leche (which makes everything better). The dulce de leche is sandwiched in with crumbles of the dough, and we top it all off with sea salt flakes to counteract the sweetness.

All in all, these are pretty much heaven, sliced into bar form. When I took my first bite, I was amazed and so excited about how delicious they were, but thought I was probably overreacting. My mom walked in a second later, I asked her to try them and tell if they were as good as I thought they were, and she declared them as the best thing I’ve ever made. Coming from her (compared to my dad, who says everything is the best thing I’ve ever made), that’s a biggie.

When my family tried them (after they had been in the freezer for a week), they all agreed that they were some of the best. These are some darn good cookie bars – make them, share them, and enjoy!

These Salted Dulce De Leche Cookie Bars are a chewy chocolate chip cookie bar made with browned butter, swirled with sweet dulce de leche, and sprinkled with flaky sea salt!

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Dulce De Leche Cookie Bars

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  • Author: Rachel Conners
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 15 minutes
  • Total Time: 25 minutes
  • Yield: 24 bars 1x
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: American
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Description

These Salted Dulce De Leche Cookie Bars are a chewy chocolate chip cookie bar made with browned butter, swirled with sweet dulce de leche, and sprinkled with flaky sea salt!

Ingredients

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  • 1¾ cup unbleached all-purpose flour, can also use a gluten-free all-purpose baking flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 14 tablespoons (1¾ sticks) unsalted butter
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ¾ cup packed dark brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs, room temperature
  • 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • ½ cup toffee bits
  • ½ cup dulce de leche
  • 1 teaspoon coarse sea salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9×13 inch pan with nonstick cooking spray.
  2. In a heavy bottomed sauce pan, melt butter until browned. It takes about 5 minutes for butter to begin to smell nutty and start to brown, but watch carefully because it goes from perfectly browned to burned very fast. Once browned, remove from heat and allow to cool for 5 minutes.
  3. Add browned butter and sugars to the bowl of a mixer and mix until combined. Add eggs one at a time, mixing until completely combined, and then add the vanilla. Turn mixer off and add all of your dry ingredients to the bowl. Mix until just combined. Turn mixer off and fold in chocolate chips and toffee bits.
  4. Press half of the dough into the bottom of the pan. Spread 1/2 cup of dulce de leche over the dough. Sprinkle the rest of the dough over the top of the ducle de leche. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
  5. Bake for 15-17 minutes or until light golden brown. Let cool completely before cutting and serving.

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