These rolo cookies are the best ever! They’re a delicious chocolate cake mix chocolate cookie stuffed with gooey caramel and sprinkled with sea salt on top. The perfect sweet, salty, chocolatey, caramel cookie!
I’ve made these rolo cookies several times and every time I do, I wonder why I don’t make them more often.
They’re easy, only 5 ingredients, and are seriously one of my all time favorite cookies.
You see, you start with a box of devil’s food cake mix, you really could use any chocolate cake mix though, then add some oil, and eggs and make a thick dough. Flatten the dough, place 1 unwrapped rolo and roll it all up into a little ball and bake. Don’t forget to sprinkle them with a little sea salt at the end.
The sea salt adds almost a little crunch, but I just love the contrast it adds to the cookie. The saltiness brings out the sweetness of the caramel and the chocolate. Make sure to get coarse sea salt. I press my cookie tops down every so slightly when they come out of the oven to help the sea salt stick a little better.
And now, another picture of the ooey gooey deliciousness of the caramel in the middle.
Rolo Cookies with Sea Salt
Ingredients
- 24-28 rolos
- 1 box devil's food cake mix
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil (or canola or coconut)
- coarse sea salt.
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Unwrap all your rolos and set them aside in a small bowl, try not to eat any 😉
- In a medium sized bowl combine your cake mix, eggs and vegetable oil and stir together to make a thick cookie batter.
- Take a small bit of dough and flatten it in your hand and put 1 rolo in the middle. Fold the dough around the rolo and roll into a ball.
- Place 12 cookies on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone liner.
- Bake cookies for about 10 minutes, till the tops start to split and they look done.
- Remove from oven and slightly flatten the tops of your cookies with your hand and sprinkle each cookie with just a little sea salt.
Linda says
What is the best way to store them? Need them to keep for several days.
Aimee says
I usually just keep them in an airtight container, ziplock bag or pyrex or something. I’m not sure they’d be best after several days. Maybe 3 or 4
Ashley says
I made these twice, first time they turned out perfectly! This time…they were flat and the rolo was sticking to the parchment paper. What could I have done wrong?! They still taste delicious, just very flat and rolos fell out the bottom! Please help!!!
Aimee Berrett says
So sorry Ashley, did you use a different cake mix the second time? If it was, or there was just a bit more liquid that got added, maybe a really huge egg, or a little too much oil or whatever then it would make the cookies flatter, was the dough super sticky? If that happens next time you could try adding a little extra flour to the mix. Good luck!
Ashley says
It’s been a year since I last made them so I’m not sure which cake mix I used the first time! Okay, I’ll have to try and make them again! I made two batches lastnight, the first I used coconut oil and the batter was not sticky at all! The second batch I used canola oil and the batter was sticky as I rolled it in my palm. Would the size of the cookie have anything to do with It as well?!
Jill Ginavan says
These cookies were indeed very good and easy to prep. I loved that they were sprinkled with a little sea salt. That gave the cookies just a little extra something! I did have a problem with the dough sticking to my hands and getting kind of gummy as I rolled them into balls, so I tried spraying the palms of my hands with butter flavored cooking oil spray from time to time, and that did the trick No more sticking!. Also, I found that the sea salt wouldn’t stick very well to the cookies after baking (even after pressing the cookie tops down), so I started sprinkling the salt onto the unbaked cookie balls before popping them into the oven and that seemed to help a lot. I really like that salt so I had to find a way to keep it from rolling off the cookies! I also just used unwrapped Rolo minis instead of unwrapping individual Rolos. The minis seemed to give the cookies enough caramel for my taste, but if someone likes lots of caramel, the bigger candies would probably be preferable. Thank you for the recipe!
Aimee Berrett says
It sounds so good with the mini rolos too. Not having to unwrap them all is PERFECTION! Glad you liked them!
B Morgee says
These were DELICUOUS!! And incredibly easy to make – thank you!!
Aimee Berrett says
So glad you loved them! 🙂
Layne says
This looks absolutely amazing.. who could say no to a Rolo!?
Aimee Berrett says
Right? It was hard not to just pop them in my mouth as I was unwrapping them for the cookies!
Ashley | The Recipe Rebel says
That gooey Rolo in the middle looks so unreal! I’m ALL about sweet and salty!
Aimee Berrett says
Thank you Ashley! Such a good combo, right?!
Natalie says
Oh my gosh, these sound delicious, and easy! I will have to try them!
Aimee Berrett says
Thank you Natalie! They are amazingly easy and one of my favorite cookies! Let me know what you think when you try them!
thatskinnychickcanbake says
I can never resist a caramelly dessert! Your cookies look phenomenal!
Aimee Berrett says
Thank you so much! I can’t resist it either!