Toffee Bars and Sugar Cookies

I made these last week but I hadn't had a chance to download the pictures onto my computer yet. I had three bags of toffee bits in my baking cupboard so I figured I had to use them for something. So, I went to the manufacturers website for ideas and found this...

Rich Chocolate Cup Toffee Bars

2 1/3 cups flour
2/3 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup margarine
1 egg
2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup nuts (I used pecans)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 package toffee bits

Preheat oven to 350. Grease 9x13 pan. Combine flour and sugar. Cut in margarine. Add egg, mix well. Stir in 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips and all the nuts. Set aside 1 1/2 cups of this mixture. Press the rest of the mixture into the bottom of the pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Pour sweetened condensed milk over the hot crust. Then sprinkle 1 cup of toffee bits over the sweetened condensed milk. Sprinkle the rest of the crust mixture and the rest of the chocolate chips over top. Bake for 25 - 30 min. When it comes out of the oven sprinkle the rest of the toffee bits over top. Cool completely before cutting.

Basically I've decided that when you combine chocolate, toffee and sweetened condensed milk you can't go wrong.

Sugar Cookies

1 cup butter (accept no substitutes)
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 cups flour
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp baking soda

Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, beat until light and fluffy. Combing flour, soda and cream of tartar. Gradually beat into butter mixture. Chill, roll out and cut into shapes. Bake 10-12 minutes (depending on thickness of cookies).

My dad and I usually make these for Valentines cookies. My friend and I made these last week to go along with a major baking project that was stopped short by a storm and power outage. No I'm not going to tell you what the project was I may try it again sometime. Anyway, these cookies are great, its an easy recipe to double or triple or whatever. I frosted them with the icing left over from the Pink lemonade cupcakes I made a while ago and it turns out great! Just as a note: Icing freezes really well and then you always have some in a pinch. :)

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.