Cookie dough is often rolled in sugar before baking to give the cookies a sweet crunchy coating but for an extra flavor boost your taste buds will love adding a little salt to the mix. Salty and sweet is the ultimate flavor combination for the tastiest desserts – a pinch of salt enhances the sweetness of a food. This is the main reason why most cookie recipes call for a pinch of salt (around ¼ to ½ teaspoon in general).
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While a pinch of salt in your dough typically won’t be noticeable in the finished product (meaning it will sweeten your cookies rather than create a noticeable salty flavor) rolling your cookie dough in a sugar/salt mixture is a great way to taste the saltiness. If you like salted caramel or salted chocolate you’ll love the sweet-and-salty coating on these cookies. There are several cookie recipes that work well with a sugar/salt coating but it’s especially delicious with flavors like butterscotch butter pecan chocolate chip and caramel (such as a Salted Caramel-Filled White Chocolate Chip Cookie).
Many salted cookie recipes call for sprinkling sea salt or flaky salt on the cookies right after they come out of the oven. For this sweet and salty cookie trick however add about 1 teaspoon of salt to about ⅓ cup of sugar and evenly coat your cookie dough balls with the mixture. Then place them evenly spaced on your baking sheet and bake according to your recipe. Feel free to adjust the amount of salt used in the coating to your liking. Table salt as opposed to flaky salt or sea salt works best to create an even coating on the cookies.
As with any cookie recipe you should chill your cookie dough overnight or for at least 30 minutes. The main reasons for chilling your cookie dough are to dry the dough out to dilute the flavor and improve the texture and to harden the fat to prevent the cookies from spreading too much during baking. After the dough has cooled you can let it sit at room temperature for up to 5-10 minutes to make it easier to scoop and to help the sugar/salt mixture stick to the dough better. Some sugar-coated cookie recipes call for soaking the dough in water before dipping it in sugar to help it stick although this may not be necessary. After tasting the finished product you’ll realize that this one simple extra step is worth it for the most delicious sweet and salty cookies imaginable.
