• Oatmeal Toffee Cookies

  Filed under Dessert - Cookies
  Apr 13
  
  I brought home leftovers from lunch at the office today, so I didn’t have to make dinner, but I still felt like cooking something. I have really been wanting to try Peabody’s Cranberry Orange Cookies and although I didn’t have any pistachios on hand, I thought I’d give them a try. But then I mentioned it to my husband, and although he says he is not picky, he will let me know when he is not “feeling” something at that particular time. So I knew I had to hold off on the delicious looking cookies, but I still wanted to make cookies. I went to my cupboard to see what I had. I found a bag of toffee chips, and looked on the back of the package to find this recipe. It looked rather good, and Josh thought so too, so I thought I’d give it a try. The only thing I changed was to do 1/2 c butter and 1/2 c shortening instead of 1 c of butter. I learned many years ago that that is the the perfect ratio for cookies (for me at least.) That way you get the great, buttery taste, but I also like light, puffy cookies, and the shortening helps with that.

  Oatmeal Toffee Cookies
  from Hershey’s

  1/2 c butter
  1/2 c shortening
  2 eggs
  2 c packed light brown sugar
  2 t vanilla
  1 3/4 c all-purpose flour
  1 t baking soda
  1 t ground cinnamon
  1/2 t salt
  3 c quick cooking oats
  8 oz pkg of toffee bits
  1 c sweetened coconut flakes

  Heat oven to 350F. Lightly grease cookie sheet. Beat butter, eggs, brown sugar and vanilla in a large bowl until well blended. Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; beat until blended. Stir in oats, toffee bits and coconut. Drop dough by rounded teaspoons about 2 inches apart onto prepared sheet. Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool 1 minute; remove to wire rack.
  
  The instructions say to bake for 8 to 10 minutes, but I usually cook my cookies 1 minute under the recommended time for the perfect cookie. These were delicious!! I was going to take most of them to work with me tomorrow, but Josh begged me to keep plenty at home. I should start looking on the packages of my ingredients more often!!
  

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3 Responses to “Oatmeal Toffee Cookies”

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   Brilynn said on April 13th, 2007 at 3:26 am

   I like to bake with toffee chips, but my problem is that I’ll just eat them out of hand and by the time I get around to baking with them there’s none left!

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   Deborah said on April 13th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

   Oh, I have the same problem!! But I have that problem with everything – I never get all of the cookies made because I end up eating so much cookie dough!

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   Deborah said on April 13th, 2007 at 3:07 pm

   I just have to add that I took the majority of the leftover cookies to work today, and they were gone within 15 minutes. That says a lot, because we constantly have goodies and food in the office, and usually nothing gets completely eaten. I’m gonna have to make these more often!

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