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These Toffee Cookies bring in some amazing flavors into a classic chocolate chip cookie. I feel like toffee is often overlooked, but these cookies will keep you coming back for more.

If you love easy cookies full of chocolate and Heath Bars, these are the cookies you need to make!

stacked cookies with heath bars baked in and around the cookies.


Favorite Toffee Cookies Recipe

These Heath Bar cookies are a fan favorite in my household. Whenever I think of toffee, I always think of Heath Bars because of their popularity and the fact my husband loves it – it’s one of the only candies he likes.

Toffee comes in many different shapes and sizes. That’s why this recipe allows you to use many different types: toffee bits, bits o’ brickle, or chopped up Heath Bars or Symphony Bars.. 

ingredients in toffee chocolate chip cookies laid out on a white counter.

Ingredients Needed

  • Unsalted butter, melted – I love melting butter in cookies. With the brown sugar it lends even more toffee flavor!
  • Light brown sugar: Helps make a moister cookie.
  • Toffee Bits: Bits o’ Brickle or toffee bits (sold in the baking aisle) are good to use if you can find them, or Heath Bars are okay as well. 
  • Want extra chocolate? Use half and half chopped heath bars and chocolate chips!

How to make Toffee Cookies

  • Place melted butter in a large bowl. Add granulated sugar and brown sugar and stir until the mixture is smooth. You can do this with a hand mixer or in a stand mixer, but it’s easy to mix by hand.
  • Mix in egg, vanilla extract, baking soda, and salt and stir until combined.
  • Slowly mix in flour and mix just until the batter is smooth and comes together.
  • Slowly mix in toffee bits or chopped candy bars.
  • Line a cookie sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper. Scoop 1 tablespoon balls for small cookies or 2 tablespoons of dough for regular size cookies. Spacing doesn’t matter because you will be chilling the dough. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 2 hours.
  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a second cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
  • Remove the chilled cookie dough balls from the refrigerator and space them 2-inches apart on the cookie sheets. Bake for 11-15 minutes, or until the edges are a light golden and the tops are no longer glossy. Let cool on the cookie sheets at least 10 minutes before removing.
stacked cookies with heath bars baked in and around the cookies.

Heath Bar Cookie Tips

  • You know they are done when the sides are golden and the tops are glossy.
  • This dough will be chilled for 2 hours so plan ahead time-wise. The dough can be chilled longer or even baked from frozen.
  • These cookies get flatter than my normal chocolate chip cookie recipe because of the toffee – it makes them flatten, like when you make Butterfinger cookies.
  • For even more flavor make Browned Butter Heath Cookies – simply brown the butter instead of just melting it and continue as directed.

FAQs

Do you have to chill the cookie dough?

Yes, for 2 hours.

How do you know when cookies are done baking?

When they are golden around the sides and on the bottom, they are done.

Can you freeze toffee cookies?

Yes, for up to 3 months in an airtight container.

stacked cookies with heath bars baked in and around the cookies.

Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies

5 from 1 vote
These cookies take chocolate chips and toffee bits and combine them into this delicious cookie. They are chewy and tasty!
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 13 minutes
Chill Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 28 minutes
Yield 20 cookies
Serving Size 1 serving

Ingredients
 

  • ½ cup (113g) unsalted butter, melted
  • cup (66g) granulated sugar
  • ½ cup (104g) light brown sugar, packed
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon (5ml) vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 ½ cups (186g) all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ cups (255g) Toffee Bits (or bits o brickle) or heath bars

Instructions

  • Place melted butter in a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add granulated and brown sugars and stir or mix on low speed until the mixture is smooth. Mix in egg and vanilla extract and mix on medium speed until combined.
  • Mix in baking soda and salt, then slowly mix in flour and mix just until the batter is smooth and comes together. Be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl during mixing. Slowly mix in toffee bits.
  • Line a cookie sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper. Scoop 1 or 2 tablespoon balls of dough onto the cookie sheet. Spacing doesn’t matter because you will be chilling the dough.
  • Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 2 hours.
  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a second cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
  • Remove the chilled cookie dough balls from the refrigerator and space them 2-inches apart on the cookie sheets. Bake for 11-15 minutes, or until the edges are a light golden and the tops are no longer glossy. Let cool on the cookie sheets at least 10 minutes before removing.

Recipe Video

Recipe Notes

  • For an extra chocolatey cookie, use 3/4 cup chocolate chips and 3/4 cups toffee bits.
  • You can also use Brown Butter in place of the melted butter.
  • These cookies will flatten more than my regular chocolate chip cookie because of the toffee.
  • 1 tablespoon size cookies will take 8-12 minutes to bake, 2 tablespoon cookies 10-15 minutes.
  • You can chill the cookie dough up to 2 days (store in an airtight container) or freeze the dough and bake from frozen.

Recipe Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 212kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 39mg | Sodium: 115mg | Potassium: 31mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 20g | Vitamin A: 358IU | Vitamin C: 0.04mg | Calcium: 15mg | Iron: 1mg
Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate
Course Dessert
Cuisine American

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Last Updated on August 27, 2023



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58 Comments

  1. Ha! Never too old for any of those words/sayings! I totally do the b**** thing too. I have to be careful though – some ppl take offensive. 🙂 And yes, these cookies are totes amazeballs!

  2. I made these over the course of two nights this week. I surprised myself by not eating too much of the dough the first night – it was so good. I made a hlaf batch and still got about 44 cookies, some made it to the freezer, but most were gone last night. So good and such the perfect little size to indulge in more than one.

    1. I’m so glad you liked them! I love when they’re small – because then you can have two! 🙂 Thanks for telling me!

  3. It’s cray-cray how amazeballs these cookies are, right?
    I love toffee anything and I have the feeling these won’t last long around me!

  4. Chocolate chip cookies are my all time favorite dessert. I feel like I’m tried every kind there is, but I’ve never done toffee before! Sounds delicious. Not sure I can trust myself with 72 of them in the house!!