Turn traditional chocolate chip cookies into something with a little extra pizzaz by swirling them with dulce de leche! This is a no chill cookie recipe that yields gooey and chewy cookies every time.
Preheat oven to 350ºF (177ºC). Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Set aside.
In a medium size bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and ground cinnamon. Set aside.
In a separate medium size bowl with a hand held mixer or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream together the butter and brown sugar on medium speed. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl with a spatula. Add the egg and vanilla extract, and beat again on medium speed until everything is combined and there are no lumps.
With the mixer on low, slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients in 2 additions, mixing thoroughly after each addition. Add the chocolate chips and mix again until evenly dispersed.
With a large spatula, gather the dough into one cohesive spot in the bowl. Using a cookie scoop (I use this #50 cookie scoop for all of my standard size cookies), scoop 3 individual Tablespoons of the dulce de leche into 3 distinct and separate places in the cookie dough. Mix again on low just a few times so the dulce de leche ribbons through the batter. Stop after about 3-5 rotations.
Use that same cookie scoop to drop rounded balls of dough onto the prepared baking sheet. Dough will be sticky. Bake for 10-12 minutes (mine always take exactly 11 minutes). Cookies may have become misshapen because of "oozing" caramel pieces. This is ok. Refer to my Instagram reel for my trick for shaping cookies after they come out of the oven. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the baking sheet for 10-15 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Cookies stay fresh in an airtight container at room temperature up to 1 week. Cookies freeze well, up to 2 months. Rolled cookie dough can be frozen, up to 2 months. Bake frozen on baking sheet for 11-13 minutes.
All nutritional values are approximate and provided to the reader as a courtesy. Changing ingredients and/or quantities will alter the estimated nutritional calculations.