Bruno Albouze Salted Chocolate Caramel Cookies
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Chocolate Pecan Caramel Cookies

Yields18 ServingsPrep Time55 minsCook Time20 minsTotal Time1 hr 15 minsDifficultyBeginnerRating

Ingredients

Cookie Dough
 90 g Butter, room temp
 60 g Cream cheese, room temp
 5 g Fleur de sel, or kosher salt
 50 g Hazelnut butter*
 150 g Raw sugar
 40 g Brown sugar
 40 g White sugar
 55 g Eggs
 320 g All-purpose flour
 6 g Baking soda
 80 g hazelnuts, toasted and crushed
Salted Chocolate Caramel
 60 g Heavy cream
 30 g Milk
 20 g Corn syrup
 5 g Vanilla
 2 g Salt
 25 g Dark chocolate
Caramel
 30 g Sugar
 15 g Corn syrup
 15 g Butter
Pecan Praliné
 300 g Toasted pecans, roughly chopped
 150 g Sugar
 50 g Water
 3 g Salt

Directions

Cookie Dough
1

*To make hazelnut butter, toast hazelnut and turn into paste using a food processing. Cream butter, cream cheese and salt. Add hazelnut butter and the 3 sugars. Add the egg and the flour mixed with baking soda. Add the crushed hazelnuts. Scoop out cookie dough into 1.7 ounces/50g portions and chill. Cookie dough can be made days in advance and kept refrigerated for up to a week or frozen for months.

Salted Chocolate Caramel
2

Heat up cream, milk, corn syrup, vanilla and salt. In the mean time, make brown caramel with sugar and corn syrup. Turn heat off and carefully pour hot liquid in the caramel whisking constantly, mix in chocolate and cool to 160ºF/70ºC. Add butter and blend. Use at room temperature or chill for later use; it can be kept refrigerated for weeks.

Pecan Praliné
3

Cook sugar and water to 244ºF/118ºC or for 5 min. Throw in pecans and salt and stir constantly on medium high heat. Soon the sugar is going to crystalized – continue stirring for 15 minutes or until the nuts are completely caramelized. Cool onto a silicone mat.
Use 40% of the caramelized pecans for the praliné spread and save remaining for the topping.

Baking
4

Preheat oven to 350ºF/180ºC. Arrange chilled cookies onto 2 baking trays lined with silicone mat. Bake one tray at the time. Flatten cookies a bit, incrust some caramelized pecans in each cookie. Bake for 12 min (10 min if using convection oven). Remove pre-baked cookies from the oven and fill each cookie with 3 hazelnut size dots of pecan praliné – bake again for 8 min more. Do not over bake. Top baked cookies with more praliné and the salted chocolate caramel. Garnish with more caramelized pecans. Serve salted chocolate caramel pecan cookies at room temperature – Enjoy!

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