How would a bakery secretly get a caramel flavor into their chocolate chip cookies?

[Anonymous]

Melt the butter in a traditional chocolate chip cookie recipe instead of adding it cold. And let the batter sit in the fridge overnight.

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Made some today. OMG sooooo good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Letting the dough rest overnight (or longer) in the fridge gives the cookies a toffee-like flavor that you might interpret as caramel

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-best-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe

Interesting. What's the difference between toffee and caramel in this regard?

Caramel is white sugar, butterscotch and toffee are brown sugar. Butterscotch is brown sugar and heavy cream, toffee is butter and brown sugar... at least I think.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't doubt if they're browning the butter and refrigerating / freezing the dough to bake as needed. The refrigeration of the dough gives the cookies a deeper flavor. But how does a small bakery brown tons of butter to make presumably hundreds of cookies? That seems pretty daunting. Even browning a single stick of butter is a tedious effort in my own kitchen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, they probably put flavor extract in it. Something like this. https://www.amazon.com/Watkins-Caramel-Flavor-Natural-Flavors/dp/B0041RGD0E

Makes the most sense from a labor/expense perspective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Letting the dough rest overnight (or longer) in the fridge gives the cookies a toffee-like flavor that you might interpret as caramel

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-best-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe

This is the answer. It’s magical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't doubt if they're browning the butter and refrigerating / freezing the dough to bake as needed. The refrigeration of the dough gives the cookies a deeper flavor. But how does a small bakery brown tons of butter to make presumably hundreds of cookies? That seems pretty daunting. Even browning a single stick of butter is a tedious effort in my own kitchen.

It takes like ten minutes to brown one stick of butter. Restaurants just scale up.

[Anonymous]

This is one of the best threads in a while

[Anonymous]

Name the bakery.

[Anonymous]

Caramel flavor drops. You can buy them at the grocery store.