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jazzypurple853
10-02-2009, 05:53 PM
I belong to a yahoo group, whose theme is cookies. I made these today. They were delicious! I'm not sure why it's called what it's called.


here's the recipe

1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups of flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
2/3 cup tofee bits
1 cup pecans (optional)

Preheat oven to 350. Grease two cookie sheets. In a medium bowl,
cream together butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, one at time, then stir in vanilla. Combine flour,baking powder. Stir in creamed mixture. Fold in milk chocolate,semisweet chips , toffee and pecans. Drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes in preheated oven.

When I made the cookies , I took a seperate bowl and put the milk chocolate, semisweet chocolate and the tofeee bits added them all together and mixed it by hand. When the cookie batter was ready I just dumped my contents of this bowl into the cookie batter. I also didn't use pecans.

maxiesmom
10-02-2009, 06:04 PM
I don't know why they're named that either. I do seem to remember they were a winner from a contest that Reiman Publications ran in one of their magazines and this is what she named her entry. I never did try it, thanks for the heads up!

HeatherJ
10-02-2009, 08:02 PM
Oh my, those sound delightful!!

logcabincreations
10-02-2009, 08:41 PM
they sound delish -- and I would probably make a batch with and a batch without pecans...just to see how they taste with the nuts.

tesschap
10-02-2009, 09:33 PM
They sound yummy. Thanks for the recipe. I would also make a batch with and one without the pecans. One son likes nuts and one doesn't .... trouble is DH and I will probably eat them all anyway!

MidwestStamper
10-02-2009, 09:43 PM
Oh, they do sound wonderful! I'll HAVE to make them, since I'm from Minnesota! Maybe the person who made up the recipe is from Minnesota. Lots of good stuff here!

Mrs. Fence
10-02-2009, 10:05 PM
Yumm...they sound wonderful - with or without nuts!

emmcee
10-03-2009, 09:10 AM
Sound simply scrumptious to me! Thanks for sharing.

loobylou
10-03-2009, 09:42 AM
what are toffee bits? is it a kind of chocolate chip? We probably call them something else

coco_kitty
10-03-2009, 09:50 AM
Ooohh, sounds good. Maybe, I'll make cookies today:D

jazzypurple853
10-03-2009, 10:24 AM
I looked at the package of toffee bits. What I used was made by heath Bits o Brickle.
The ingredients onf the package say sugar, dairy/butter , almonds roasted in cocoa butter. It's manufactured by the Hershey Company .

It makes a ton of cookies. It's the type of cookie to bring somewhere, so you don't have them haning around your house, cause you can't resist them.

Nancy
10-03-2009, 02:20 PM
You didnt list the flour in this recipe. - Nancy

MidwestStamper
10-03-2009, 02:39 PM
Nancy--you have an eagle eye! I see that the directions mention both vanilla and flour, but the list of ingredients doesn't include them. Do you have the preportions that we would need, Shelley?

directmailscrapper
10-03-2009, 02:45 PM
I noticed no flour either! They sound sorta like a chocolate chip cookie -- if they do have flour in them!

maxiesmom
10-03-2009, 03:42 PM
I found the recipe on the Taste of Home site, it's 2 1/2 C flour. They also include 2 T vanilla after beating the eggs and then with the flour and other dry ingredients 1/4 t salt. Otherwise directions are the same.

Dang it and I was at the store already and didn't get the toffee bits. Need to go add it to my list.

shadoob
10-03-2009, 03:51 PM
Sarah, toffee bits are like a hardened caramel. It often comes in a candy bar with a chocolate covering. Do you have anything like that?

As for the no flour bit---just another reason to buy pre-made cookie dough! hee hee

shadoob
10-03-2009, 03:54 PM
Sarah,
Try this link:
(wiikipedia and "what is toffee?")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toffee

jazzypurple853
10-03-2009, 07:22 PM
I just updated the recipe. My apologies, I typed the recipe so fast, I didn;t proofread what I had typed.