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Timeless Toffee Bars
Growing up, my mom always baked a lot of great cookies and pies and other desserts. Usually, these were simple but so so good. We were allowed to eat this stuff any old time, morning, noon, or night.
Some of her pastry concoctions were complicated but others were easy as can be. Toffee bars were one of her very easy but always amazing cookies. I’ve had lots of toffee bars in my life, but this recipe is the best. I only changed the type of chocolate chips (bittersweet, please). Honestly, I don’t think dark chocolate was a “thing” back in my mom’s era, but I always always I opt for dark chocolate. You can use semisweet chocolate if you aren’t in my dark chocolate camp.
This recipe is a compilation of my mom, my sisters, with my own touches.
Toffee Bars
Makes 30
Ingredients
- ½ cup (1 stick) salted butter, room temperature
- ½ cup packed dark brown sugar
- ½ of an egg yolk
- 1 c of all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup (6 oz) bittersweet) chocolate chips
- ½ cup toasted chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans, depending on what you love)
Instructions
Preheat to 350. Spray a 9 x 9 pan with Pam. Mix the dough ingredients (all the ingredients but the chocolate chips and nuts) and press evenly into the pan, evening it out the top with an offset spatula.
Bake for 25 minutes., Remove and sprinkle chocolate chips over the top. Bake for another four minutes. Spread the now-melted chocolate chips with an offset spatula and sprinkle with nuts. Cut while it’s still a tad bit warm.
