Salted Caramel Snickerdoodle Bites

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F and liberally spray a 24-well mini muffin pan with cooking spray. In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt and set it aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the soft butter and sugar and cream them together until light and fluffy. Add in the eggs and beat them in completely. Then slowly add in the dry ingredients until everything is combined.

2. In a small bowl, stir the sugar and cinnamon together for coating. Take a heaping tablespoon of the cookie dough and roll it in the cinnamon and sugar to coat it. Then press it into the first well of the prepared muffin tin to form a cute little cup. Repeat with the rest of the cookie batter, you should get 24 little cups. Get the tray into the oven and bake the cookie cups for about 15 minutes, until golden and slightly puffy.

3. When they are done, they will look like little muffins with a slight hole in the middle. Take them out of the oven and insert a Rolo flat side up in the middle of each of them right away while the snickerdoodles are still hot. The Rolos will start to melt into the cookie and get soft and luxurious. Then sprinkle the top of each of them will sea salt.

4. Transfer the salted caramel snickerdoodle bites to a rack to finish cooling after they’ve set for a few minutes. Then you’re all done! Biting into one of these was quite a delight, let me tell you. The cookie was slightly crisp and golden on the outside and chewy in the interior. Then you get to that melty chocolate caramel center and it is too good for words. The salt on top enhances everything so much.

Snickerdoodles base is adapted from Martha Stewart’s Holiday Cookie book for years and it is foolproof.