Toffee Cookies

I used a cellophane bag and a large cupcake
liner to package the cookies nicely.

Being a senior in high school there has been a lot of news lately coming in from colleges for my friends. In the beginning of the year when people were hearing from their ED schools, I made some good luck cookies for my friends Brandon, Zack, and Olivia. They got into Cornell, UPenn, and Dartmouth respectively, so we deemed by cookies to be good luck charms.

My friend Steven is hearing back tomorrow from school and I promised I would bake him something for good luck.

Bake until they are slightly brown on the edges
so they're a mix of crispy and soft.

I hope he gets in!

Ingredients:

1 ¼ cups flour

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon baking soda

1 stick softened butter

½ cups sugar

¼ cup brown sugar

1 egg

½ teaspoon vanilla

½ cup toffee bits

¼ cup mini semisweet chocolate chips

1/3 cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F and grease two baking sheets.

Sift together the flour, salt, and baking soda in one bowl and in another beat together the butter in sugar. Once mixed, beat in the eggs and vanilla to the butter and sugar mixture. After it is well blended at in the dry mixture until mixed. Finally, stir in the walnuts, chocolate chips, and toffee bits.

Spoon 1-inch balls of dough onto the greased cookie sheets and bake for 10-12 minutes.

Remove from oven and let cool. 

Best Blondies

I've been out all day, but I told my friend Callie that I would bake something for tonight so I decided I would make my easy blondie recipe that never fails

Blondies are a classic favorite that are unfortunately often better in theory than how they actually turn out after they come out of the oven. Many recipes don't get the consistency right, so I was pleased to find that Hershey's recipe made really great tasting blondies with just the right texture.
I made a couple adjustments to the recipe to make it even better, and I have found that everyone has been pleased with the results.
Recipe:
Ingredients:

2 cups packed light brown sugar

1 cup melted butter

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

2/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

2/3 cup peanut butter chips

2/3 cup toffee bits

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 F and grease a 9 x 13 pan.

Stir together the brown sugar and butter in a large bowl and beat in the eggs and vanilla until smooth. Afterwards, ad the flour and salt until blended. Finally, stir in the chocolate and peanut butter chips and toffee bits.

This batter is chunky with all the different types of chips.

Spread this batter into the prepared pan.
Bake 25 to 30 minutes and cool completely before cutting into squares.

Oatmeal Toffee Cookies

I seriously owe my friend Claire some cookies, so I thought I would make cookies I have already made her before that she loved. The mix of oatmeal, toffee, and coconut makes a moist, crispy, and tasty cookie. The pecans I added also add a nice crunch.

Recipe:

Ingredients:

½ cup softened butter

1 cup packed light brown sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

¾ cups all-purpose flour

The batter for these cookies is especially good.

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

¼ teaspoon fine salt

1 ½ cups quick-cooking oats

½ cup sweetened coconut

1 cup (a little less) toffee bits

½ cup chopped pecans

Directions:

Heat the oven to 375°F and lightly grease cookie sheet

Beat butter, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla. One well blended, add flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. 


Stir in the coconut, oats, toffee bits and pecans. Drop dough by rounded teaspoons about 2 inches apart onto your prepared sheet. 


Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.

These weren’t able to leave my house without a few missing/eaten…oops.

This recipe makes about 24 cookies.

Double Decker Toffee Chocolate Brownies

Well I owe my friend Cathy some money, so we decided that if I baked her 3-4 batches of baked goods, that would be sufficient instead of the cash. (I thought this was a pretty good deal). I already made her a recipe with peanut butter so I thought, why not some toffee this time?

I came up with this batch of yummy brownies:

Ingredients:

3/4 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup packed light brown sugar

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 1/4 plus 1/4 cups flour

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa

1 tablespoon butter

1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup plus a little more than a 1/4 cup toffee bits

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a 13x9 inch pan.

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until fluffy and then beat in the eggs and vanilla. Add the dry mixture of the 2 1/2 cups flour, baking powder, and salt.

Toffee bits on top, no need to press

them into the dough.

Divide batter in half. Blend the cocoa powder into one half of the dough and spread it evenly into the pan. Melt the 1 tablespoon butter and evenly drizzle and then spread it on top of the chocolate mixture in the pan.

I had to use my hands (just washed

of course) to spread the top

layer evenly over the bottom.

Stir remaining dough with the extra 1/4 cup flour, 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1/2 cup toffee bits. Heap bits of white dough on top of the chocolate dough and spread the layer evenly. Top with 1/4 cup plus a little more toffee bits on top.

Bake for 25-30 minutes, let cool, cut into squares, and dig in!

How good did turn come out?

My friend ate 3 within 2 minutes, enough said.