Friday, October 23, 2009

Week Six-Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies

This week I decided to try a recipe that a found a while ago that I have been wanting to try. These cookies sounded good to me since I am a big fan of White chocolate and Toffee.
Ingredients:
2 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 c. (1 stick) butter
1/4 c. Smart Balance margarine (or similarly high-quality margarine- I used "I can't believe it's not butter)
3/4 c. white sugar
3/4 c. packed DARK brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 c. Heath bits
3/4 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips*
1/4 c. white chocolate chips*

*You can use 1 c. chocolate chips instead of splitting it up between the semi-sweet and white chocolate chips, but the white chocolate chips make these cookies extra-special, and if I made them again I would use 1/2 cup of each. I really liked the white chocolate and wished there was a little more.

Preheat oven to 375. In a small mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

Combine brown sugar, white sugar, butter, margarine, and vanilla in a large bowl until well-blended. Add in eggs and beat well. Slowly add in flour mixture and mix until combined. Add in chocolate and white chocolate chips and then mix the toffee bits until they're just combined.
Drop dough onto the cookie sheets and bake 8-10 minutes until the cookies are lightly brown. Allow to cool on cookie sheets for about 5 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack and cool completely. The cooling rack is very important in this recipe because the toffee will make the cookies stick to the pan if you're not careful.
Results:
Yum!! I really enjoyed these, I like a cookie full of lots of different tastes and textures and these hit the spot for me! What did you think?

3 comments:

  1. What do I think? I think it's 10pm and I want a cookie, or two or maybe three....yummy!

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  2. I love toffee chips. I will have to give these a try!

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  3. Made these today finally. I really liked them. I didn't have dark brown sugar so just used brown sugar--they looked and tasted fine! Loved all the toffee bits.

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