Rolo Cookies
Published on December 10, 2021
Quick Summary
Rolo Cookies- soft and chewy chocolate cookies with a Rolo candy inside! Everyone loves biting into the chocolate caramel surprise! These cookies are fun and delicious!
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Pin ItLast week, I bought Rolo candies to make Rolo Pretzels. I didn’t use all of the Rolos so I decided to use the leftover candies to make Rolo Cookies.
These cookies look like plain chocolate cookies, but there is a surprise inside.
The chocolate cookie dough gets wrapped around the Rolo candy. The Rolos melt in the oven and create a chocolate caramel center that is to die for.
I love especially love the cookies when they are still a little warm because the center is ooey, gooey, and divine.
Josh wasn’t going to try a cookie because he thought they were plain chocolate cookies, but I told him to trust me and take a bite. He did and he immediately grabbed a second cookie and a glass of cold milk. He loved the chocolate caramel surprise.
If you want to create an extra sweet treat, try these chocolate cookies with a Rolo candy center. You can’t go wrong with cookies and candy!
Rolo Cookie Ingredients
- Flour– all-purpose flour is perfect! To measure, fluff, spoon, and level!
- Cocoa powder– use regular unsweetened cocoa powder!
- Baking soda– make sure it is fresh!
- Salt– always salt in baked goods!
- Butter– use unsalted butter for this recipe! Make sure it is at cool room temperature and not too warm or greasy! If your butter is too warm, your cookies will be flat!
- Sugar– you need granulated sugar and brown sugar!
- Eggs– I always use large eggs for baking.
- Vanilla extract– so good in cookies!
- Rolo candies– you can find Rolos at most grocery stores in the candy aisle.
- Flaky sea salt– I like to add a little flaky sea salt on top!
How to Make Rolo Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients and set aside.
- With a mixer, cream butter and sugars together until smooth. Add in eggs and vanilla extract. Mix until blended.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix on low until just combined.
- Take a spoonful of chocolate cookie dough and wrap around one Rolo candy. Make sure Rolo is completely covered with cookie dough. Roll dough ball in sugar and place on prepared baking sheet.
- Bake cookies for 8 to 10 minutes or until the cookies are starting to crack. Don’t over bake.
- Remove from the oven and sprinkle with flaky sea salt. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire cooling rack.
How to Store Rolo Cookies
Store the cooled cookies in an airtight container on the counter for up to 3 days. You can also freeze the baked cookies for up to 3 months in a freezer bag or container.
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Rolo Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Rolo candies, unwrapped
- Granulated sugar, for rolling the cookie dough balls in
- Flaky sea salt, for sprinkling on cookies
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- With a mixer, cream butter and sugars together until smooth. Add in eggs and vanilla extract. Mix until blended.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix on low until just combined.
- Take a spoonful of chocolate cookie dough and wrap around one Rolo candy. Make sure Rolo is completely covered with cookie dough. Roll dough ball in sugar and place on prepared baking sheet. Continue until you runout of cookie dough.
- Bake cookies for 8 to 10 minutes or until the cookies are starting to crack. Don’t over bake. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with flaky sea salt. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire cooling rack.
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I totally want to make these for my Christmas cookie exchanges- fabulous idea!!
This is a family favorite we’ve been making for years. It was a $2,000 winner in the 1990 Bake-off. Yours look perfect!
WOW these are gorgeous! the pictures are beautiful, and I LOVE the idea of the caramel flowing forth…YUM!
Yum….I am such a candi-a-holic. A friend of mine, for a fun lunch snack for her daughter, would name rolo bites. She would sandwich a rolo with 2 square butter pretzels and microwave for 10 secs, and smoosh to seal. Ridiculously simple, fun, and oh so good! 😉
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I made this for my office once and the guys LOVED them!!!
Oooh I love these cookies! I adore chocolate cookies, and that caramel center looks delicious! Thank you for including a link to my snickery squares, and thanks also for including Ree’s salted caramel brownies. I had somehow missed those, and am in total love with salted caramel right now, so I can’t wait to try them!
Oh wow!! I make a similar surprise cookie but it’s a peanut butter dough. These look AMAZING!!!!!!
Maria, you are right it is essential that these are eaten straight out of the oven. Those gooey chocolate centers look amazing! xo
I love your cookie ideas and recipes, and these look like true comfort food!
I am a sucker for Rolo cookies! These look to die for girl!!
Beautiful! 🙂
I bet those are fantastic
These are a favorite at our house too. I love taking them to potlucks and watching people bite into them for the first time and get that gooey caramel surprise. They really are yummy!
These look delicious! I need to try them.
anything stuffed with caramel goes right to the top of my list 🙂
I have never had one like this but I can imagine how good they must be!
OMG, those cookies are irresistible!
Cheers,
Rosa
We make these too, but we roll the tops in a crushed pecan and sugar mixture before baking and then after they cool we drizzle melted almond bark and sprinkle more pecans and sugar. YUMMY!
Nice! The best thing to do with leftover chocolate candy is bake it into a cookie! : )
I would love to bite into the caramel surprise in the center of this!
Another great cookie idea!
Maria – these look so good. Rolos always remind me of going to the movies when I was a kid. My dad would always buy a pack and I’d always mooch some off of him. I’ll have to make these for him. 🙂
Must make asap! 🙂 Anything with caramel( in my book) is to die for!
These are definitely gorgeous! I would love to have one with a glass of milk right now. Yum!
Great idea! Caramel is always my favorite. 🙂
Oh man…another super yummy way to use Rolos! You know this is not very helpful for trying to lose those prego lbs….I may need to try out that spinach and feta salad in between the cookies!!
Oooooooh. Oh my. My guy would love these. I would, too. I would have to make them right before I was leaving the house for a few days, though, as I fear I would have no control around them. 😉
i could buy rolos with every intention to use them in baking, but they’d disappear down my gullet before i knew what was happening. 🙂
These look amazing. Can’t wait to try out the recipe!
This is such an amazing idea. They look so good. I love doughnuts that have a surprise filling so why not cookies!
Wow! Yummy… will be making these very soon! Thanks so much! ~ Take Care….
Oh, MAN. Those look delicious! Thanks for posting. Will definitely try.
Rolos are my numero uno candy. I love ANYTHING with caramel in it. Can’t wait to make these! yummy
Rolos are my favorite candy. So this will have to be made. Good job with left overs.
YUM!
Great idea for leftover candy, not that I ever have any left!
That bit of caramel oozing out would make me grab another cookie and a glass of milk, too. Yum!
What a perfect way to use up your extra rolos – they look completely addicting!
Oh my Maria.
Oh my…
Ooh, I love cookies with surprises inside! Must make, must make!
You are not helping my need to go on a diet 🙂
Rolos are some of my most favorite candies! Can’t beat that caramel center. Your cookies look so soft. I’d love to make these.
It was so good to see you Saturday! We need to do lunch or bake together soon!
I made these cookies last year, they are yummy!!
How have you been? I hope your summer is going well. It’s been hot in Idaho!
heavenly! i made your pretzel cookies on thursday night and brought them to work on friday! um, lets just say they were gone in like 30 seconds. rave reviews. thanks so much for sharing the recipe! it’s a keeper FO SHO! xo
I want these! Rolos are one of my favorite candies.
These look amazing!
YUM-O!!! I never keep Rolos around that long to make anything with them. 🙂
Ooh… I love cookies with Rolo candies in them. I have made peanut butter ones and Nutella ones… Yum! Now I’ll have to give these a try!
Oh my god my mouth is watering!!! I haven’t had rolo’s in years and these look SO good!!
I am definitely going to have to make these once I am off crutches and back in the kitchen. I can see they will be a huge hit with my boyfriend.
Ooh, look at the oozing caramel in those. Such a great idea for a cookie! Would be soooo hard to stop at one.
Those looks so fabulous!
ooh – what a great use for rolos! I love rolos anyway, but having them in a biscuit is wonderful!
Oh my. I am so going to make these! My kids will love them!
Oh i’ve heard about these! I’m definitely going to try them. I looove the prezel turtles, they’re addicting!
I made these a few weeks ago for one of our summer ‘Concerts at the Pier.’ They were a huge success! Every one of them were gone and people were asking for more, as well as the recipe. These are so easy to make and every bite is amazing…… the bites of just plain chocolatey goodness and then the bites with the wonderful caramel.
Hints: I leave them to set up on the parchment paper when I remove them from the oven. I just slide the cooked parchment sheet straight on to the cooling rack and slide a prepped parchment sheet right back on the hot sheet and in to the oven.
If you put the hot cookies directly on the rack the caramel breaks through the actual cookie part and falls between the cracks! And, they tend to fall apart when hot.
I’ve had this recipe bookmarked for quite awhile, because it looked so good. I finally made it tonight and these cookies were so good! My husband said they were his favorite cookies he’s ever had, quite the compliment! Thanks for another great recipe!
Wow, that is a compliment. So glad you and your husband enjoyed the cookies!
I finally got around to making these yesterday. SO GOOD!!!
These came out great! And they’re really easy and fun to make!
I stumbled upon this recipe on Friday and knew I had to make them! So, yesterday I walked to the store in the pouring rain to get the rolos and it was so worth it because these cookies are ridiculously good! They are perfectly moist, even on day two! Probably the best cookies I have ever had!
Glad you enjoyed the cookies!
I am not one to comment on recipes, but just this once Ill make an exception. THESE. ARE. AMAZING. I stumbled on this recipe from Iambaker and couldnt stop myself from making them! Ive had people beg me for the recipe, and they are SO easy to make! Thank you so much for sharing this..!!
These cookies were so great! I did not have any Rolo’s around, so I used bite size Snickers and it worked really well! Thanks For the great ideas!
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Awesome cookies… Made half the batch with a light sea salt topping, the other half with the full sugar roll… Both are amazing, but my wife prefers the salted, she doesn’t have the biggest sweet tooth… Thanks!
I made these for a Christmas cookie exchange– they were the biggest hit of the night! And we had 13 different types of cookies so that is a good sign. They were the first to be eaten and I got requests to make more. Easy to make– the longest part was unwrapping the rolos!
Glad the cookies were a hit!
Can the dough be made the day before assembling the cookies?
Yes!
ROLO’s ARE NOT GLUTEN FREE. I checked with the company. MUCH to my dismay!
Wow i cant stop watching them – I swear on my wife its mouth watering
I must be in a different elevation because mine are coming out thick. Do you press them during baking? Tried using less dough but they still don’t spread…any ideas? Yours look delicious!
Sprinkled a few grains of coarse kosher salt over the top of each cookie.
Used my go to chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Rather than sifting cocoa into the dry ingredients, melted the chips and stirred into the dough.
How do you stop them from oozing out the sides of the cookies? Mine never look the way they should.
These were great! And could NOT be easier! So quick. I drizzled with melting chocolate on top for a fancy finish.
Fun! Glad you liked the cookies!
Can these be frozen?
Yes!
Apologies if it’s a dumb question but just to be clear, 1 cup of salted or unsalted butter?
Not dumb at all. I use unsalted butter.
Can you freeze these cookies?
Yes!
Love your recipes-thank you!
Do you think these could be frozen unbaked and then just cooked a little longer?
I make these with a sugar/pecan sprinkle on top! Worth the effort people! 🙂
Love this recipe and have made them for the past 10 years. They are a big hit with my family as well as all of my neighbors who I gift with baked good each Christmas. I have even made them with Peppermint Kisses in the middle. Although they don’t melt like the Rolos do, they are still delicious.I am curious if the dough can be frozen before baking. I am trying to make up as many of my cookies as I can in advance to save time.
These were absolutely amazing.
Glad you loved them!
Made these cookies yesterday and they are great! It was hard to find the Rolo candies but I found the only package of minis with 50/pkg after going to 2 places (I think other cooks beat me to them). I did use cinnamon sugar to roll cookies, as I had it leftover and I was tempted to omit the sea salt – but so glad I used just a touch. It is a really good cookie!! Thanks
Love the dough and finished cookies….one question. What is the trick to baking these without the caramel oozing and and creating a fall apart gooey cookie?
Thanks.
Make sure you completely cover the Rolo with cookie dough, so there is no part of the candy peaking out.
The trick to The caramel issue, is to not overcook them, make sure you’re also using enough dough around them. But if the caramel is leaking out that’s a good sign that you’re over cooking it.
if the caramel is leaking out that’s a good sign that you’re over cooking it.
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Did you know that you can let your dough age for a week or two in the fridge. I did this the last time I made cookies and they were amazing. I can’t explain what happened, but they were incredible. Letting the cookie dough age like that really did something to it.
Can you freeze the dough and then bake as needed?
Yes!
My favorite cookies.
SO good!
Have made these cookies so many times and they are always a hit. Easy to make and delicious!
Yay! Glad you love them!
These cookies were a flop. Flat as a pancake. I’m a seasoned baker and my butter was not warm in the slightest. I was going to take these to work and now I can’t. Two thumbs down.
I make them every year and have never had them turn out flat. They are a favorite of my family and friends.
These are incredible! So delish! I put extra flaky sea salt on top after baking and they are beyond. Thank you for this!
You are welcome!
Hi Maria! I know you said you could freeze the baked cookies. If I roll the cookies into balls, could I also freeze them unbaked?
yes!
Question…I am that rare female who doesn’t really like chocolate…do you think I could leave out cocoa to make less chocolate-y? If I do should I up flour?
If you don’t like chocolate, I wouldn’t recommend this recipe for you:) Maybe try my easy sugar cookie recipe instead.
What a great cookie. Moist, soft with a delicious filling. Easy to make. Love it. A perfect treat. Will make again
Always a favorite!
Wow! Loved these cookies.
They are so good!
What size cookie scoop do you use?
Thanks in advance!
1 1/2 tablespoons