Toffee Bit Triangles

Originally posted on Facebook March 30, 2009

Well, Saturday afternoon was spent helping the some friends move and so as a housewarming treat I baked them some "Toffee Bit Triangles". I have to admit this recipe came from an ad in a magazine but it was quite tasty.

1 cup butter or margarine
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg yolk
2 cups flour
1 (200g) package of Toffee bits
2 cups chocolate chips*

Preheat oven to 350. Line rimmed cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Beat butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla. Stir in flour and 1 cup of toffee bits (set the rest aside for later). This dough will be very crumbly. Press the dough evenly onto the cookie sheet. Try to get it to stick together as much as possible.
Bake for 18-20 min until golden brown. Then remove and immediately sprinkle with chocolate chips. Let the chocolate chips sit and melt for 5 min or so and then spread the melted chocolate all over the base. Sprinkle the rest of the toffee bits all over the melted chocolate. Refrigerate until chocolate has set. Then cut into triangles (or whatever shape you find easiest).

* For future reference, chocolate chips means semi-sweet chocolate chips unless otherwise specified

These were pretty tasty. There was some debate as to whether the edge pieces or middle pieces tasted better. The edge pieces had a crunchier base which I liked but other people liked the softer middle base.