Salted Vanilla Chip Oatmeal Cookies

A few twists transform this rather basic cookie recipe into something quite extraordinary. A hefty amount of vanilla extract and brown sugar give the cookie base a delicious vanilla caramel flavour. The vanilla flavour is magnified with the use of white chocolate chips/pieces instead of the more usual semi-sweet and the cookie’s crowning glory is a sprinkling of vanilla fleur de sel (which I can’t wait to use on a savoury dish!).

The proportion of butter to dry ingredients is relatively low in this recipe so the cookies don’t spread much during baking…..flattening the portioned dough slightly before baking helped create the size, thickness and crispy-chewy texture I prefer.

They were a huge hit.