Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies (With Toffee Bits!)

Soft, sweet, and buttery, these toffee chocolate chip cookies are loaded with crunchy toffee bits and gooey chocolate. Every last bite of these chewy cookies will melt in your mouth!

 

Why We Love This Chocolate Chip Toffee Cookie Recipe

• Flavor – These are delicious cookies full of buttery, crunchy toffee and just the right amount of chocolate chips.
• Perfect For Holidays – Great for holiday cookie platters or exchanges! Unique cookie that stands out on a platter or makes a great gift.
• Chewy Cookies – These cookies are soft and chewy thinner cookies that just melt in your mouth when you take a bite, and the buttery toffee gives it just the right amount of crunch.

Ingredients For Chocolate Chip Toffee Cookies

• flour– All purpose flour for this recipe
• baking soda
• cornstarch– a little cornstarch makes a cookie have a softer feel in your mouth
• salt– For in the dough to bring out the flavors, but a little extra sprinkled on top of the dough before baking is delicious too!
• unsalted butter– using unsalted butter allows you to control how much salt is in your cookie. Start with the butter at room temperature.
• brown sugar– gives these cookies a deeper flavor than using white granulated sugar. You can also do half brown sugar and half white sugar if you prefer, but I like the flavor best with all brown sugar.
• egg
• vanilla – Use real vanilla for the best flavor
• chocolate chips– I used semi-sweet chocolate chips, but you can use dark, milk or white chocolate chips.
• toffee pieces find these in the baking aisle. You can buy Heath toffee already in pieces, chop up Heath Bars or other toffee candy bars. If you are using bars you can use milk chocolate toffee, dark chocolate toffee or semi-sweet chocolate covered toffee bars. You can sometimes find a store brand or other brands, especially at the holidays.

How To Make Chocolate Chip Toffee Cookies

1. In a medium sized mixing bowl add flour, baking soda, cornstarch, and salt, Mix until well combined then set to the side.
2. In a large bowl add the softened butter and brown sugar. With an electric mixer mix the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Crack the egg into the butter mixture and add the vanilla. Combine the butter with the egg and vanilla with an electric mixer until well mixed.

3. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix with an electric mixer until a dough forms and there is no more dry ingredients in the bowl.
4. Pour the chocolate chips and toffee bits into the cookie dough and mix until just combined. Chill the cookie dough balls for at least 30 minutes.

5. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or lightly spray a baking sheet with cooking oil. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
6. Place the cookie dough balls two inches apart on the prepared baking sheet, about 6-8 cookies per pan. I like to use my favorite two tablespoon medium cookie scoop to make scooping go faster.

7. Bake in the oven for 10 to 12 minutes. The edges will just begin to turn a golden brown and the centers will still be soft and gooey. Then transfer cookies to a wire cooling rack to cool completely. Enjoy!

Chewy Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookie Variations

• Skip the chocolate — I love chocolate and toffee together, but for an all-toffee cookie, leave out the chocolate chips and bump the toffee bits up to 1 1/2 to 2 cups. If your toffee bits already have chocolate on them, you can go either way.
• Swap in nuts — Trade the chocolate chips for 1 cup of chopped pecans or walnuts. Both pair really well with the buttery toffee flavor and add crunch. Chopped peanuts should work too, though I haven’t tried them yet, so let me know if you do!
• Change up the chocolate — Dark chocolate chips bring out the caramel flavor in the toffee, and milk chocolate chips are great too.
• Add flaky sea salt — Sprinkle a little on the cookies right out of the oven. It gives you that salted caramel vibe with crunchy toffee pieces and makes them feel a little bakery-style.

Where Do I Find The Toffee Bits?

You can find english toffee bits or chocolate covered toffee bits in the baking section of most grocery stores, usually by the chocolate chips. Heath bits and Skor are the two most well known brands for toffee bits, but sometimes stores carry their own house brand.

Full Heath bars or other buttery toffee bars or candies with or without chocolate can be chopped up and added to these cookies.

Also adding toffee-coated nuts like peanuts, pecans or cashews can also be delicious in these cookies. It’s kind of like enjoying chocolate chip pecan cookies, but I like how the buttery toffee bits add extra crunch. I guess I like it both ways!

How Long Do Chocolate Chip Toffee Cookies Last?

Expect these buttery toffee chocolate chip cookies will taste best if enjoyed within 4-5 days of baking. I find this recipe tastes fresh pretty long. Store in an airtight container on the counter.

If you live in an especially hot or humid climate, storing the cookies in the refrigerator can extend the cookie’s freshness.

Can I Freeze These Chocolate Chip Toffee Cookies?

Yes, this cookie dough freezes really well You can wrap it as a long dough log in plastic wrap and then freezer paper. then thaw on the counter until it’s soft enough to slice into rounds.

The other option is to scoop the dough in cookie dough balls onto a parchment or freezer paper lined baking sheet. Freeze until the dough is firm, then move the dough balls to a freezer-safe bag or container. Bake them straight from frozen, adding a minute or two to the bake time.