Remember the bake sale I participated in to raise money for Team in Training? Thanks to everyone who bid, Steph’s Bite by Bite raised $729!!!
I hope my winning bidder enjoys these as much as I do! 
Today I am FINALLY posting the recipe for my contribution – Chocolate Sea Salt Cookies. This sweet and salty treat is worth the wait, I swear!
These are amazing. I’m not exaggerating. They take my love of sweet + salty and bring it to a whole new level with almonds and dark chocolate.
The dough is enough to make you forget any fear of raw egg-induced salmonella.
The key is to use a high-quality, flaky fleur de sel. You want the cookies to have a crunch followed the delicious melting of a salty flake on your tongue. Not the time for table salt, guys.
I use the pink-tinted, super-flaky Murray River Australian Flake Salt.
Also be sure to use good chocolate. I will often use a semi-sweet bar for melting and get the Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips to stir in.
Taking pictures of dark brown items is hard. More proof that Indian food and dark chocolate were meant to be eaten straight-away. Sans photo shoot.
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Chocolate Sea Salt Cookies
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 12-13 mins
Keywords: bake dessert chocolate salt almonds cookie
Ingredients (24 cookies)
- 2 C semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips/chopped bits, divided
- 1/4 C unsalted butter
- 3/4 C brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 C flour
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- 1 C slivered almonds
- Fleur de sel
Instructions
Place 1 C of chocolate chunks in a large bowl and melt in microwave (or over a double boiler if you’re fancy like that). Stir in butter.
Whisk together eggs and vanilla extract. Add brown sugar (take care to ensure there are no clumps), egg and vanilla mixture to the chocolate mixture. Stir until well-combined.
Sift together flour and baking powder. Add flour to the chocolate mixture, stirring just until smooth.
Fold in remaining 1 C of chocolate and almonds. Refrigerate at least 2 hours or overnight. Or place in freezer for 30 mins if you’re impatient like me.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With a spoon, scoop a heaping tablespoon of the dough on to a parchment-lined baking sheet. If desired, gently flatten with the palm of your hand (I like mine better in “globs”). Sprinkle with fleur de sel, patting lightly.
Bake for ~12-13 mins. Allow to cool as best you can before devouring with an icy glass of milk.
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In a matter of hours I will be all dressed up to attend the first Atlanta Food & Wine Festival event!
What are you doing this weekend?
What is the best dessert you’ve ever made?
Um WOW! Those look mouthwatering! Thanks for finally sharing the recipe! IF I ever get free time again (hahah) I am totally making them!
I’ve been eating squares of sea salt chocolate for dessert all week. It’s such a good combo and I’m not normally a fan of sweet + salty.
Oooooops.. I forgot to type my info in and commented like 5 seconds ago LOL.. sorry!
How awesome that you were able to contribute your cookies for a good cause that raised a TON of $! WOOO! That just shows how awesome you are… also because you are really awesome at baking delicious sweet and salty cookies *drool*
You’re too kind.
Have a great weekend!!!
These cookies look amazing, Laura! I usually like my sweet and salty foods to be consumed separately, but I would eat these up in a second. YUM!
Looks delicious! And I totally agree taking pictures of brown items is tough. I made ‘almond joy cookies’ the other day and had the hardest time ever getting a decent picture! Happy Weekend!
Those look like the cure to my PMS. Salty, sweet, and just what I need. By the way, that’s a lot of money raised. I’m impressed! Have a great weekend.
Good call on the PMS cure. I may just rename these “The Cure.” LOL!
these.look.amazing.
Perfect sweet and salty combo! I love how easy they are to make and yummy looking!
Yum, yum, yum! I imagine a vegan version (earth balance and flax “egg”) would be delicious, too! I’m going to to bookmark the recipe. I love sweet and salt together!
I thought about that, but didn’t want to mess with the recipe for a bake sale winner. Let me know if you do it – I’m very curious!
Laura,
So glad you stopped by my blog! These sound amazing!! I love, love, love dark chocolate. And especially the salty/sweet combo. I agree…hard to photography dark foods.
Amazing cookies…cookies I wouldn’t be able to let cool before I attempted to taste test.
Sea salt makes them simply perfect…..love that salty/sweet combo.
This is a wonderful .I just love this and looks mouth watering .looking forward to see more recipes.
Thank you! They are my favorite cookies.