Amazing Giant Chocolate-Toffee Cookies

Submitted by CarolAnn

"These are wonderful and oh so chocolaty! The toffee adds a really nice flavor to the cookies, too. These are big cookies--probably 4" diameter. So, you can make them smaller if you prefer. Prep time doesn't include time to chill dough."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 18 cookies

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 lb bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened) or 1 lb semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 1⁄4 cup unsalted butter
• 1 3⁄4 cups brown sugar, packed
• 4 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 5 (1 1/2 ounce) chocolate-covered english toffee bars, coarsely chopped (like Heath or Skor)
• 1 cup walnuts, toasted and chopped (optional)

directions

1. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl, whisk to blend.
2. Stir chocolate and butter in top of a double boiler over simmering water until melted and smooth. If you don't have a double boiler, you can use a sauce pan over low heat.
3. Remove pan from over water (heat) and cool to lukewarm.
4. Beat sugar and eggs in a bowl until thick (about 5 minutes) using an electric mixer.
5. Beat in chocolate mixture and vanilla.
6. Stir in flour mixture, then toffee and nuts.
7. Chill batter until firm (about 45 minutes).
8. Preheat oven to 350°.
9. Drop batter by 1/4 cupfuls onto parchment-lined cookie sheets, 2 1/2" apart.
10. Bake just until tops are dry and cracked but cookies are still soft to the touch, about 15 minutes.
11. Cool on cookie sheets.

Reviews

[Ed & Cheryl]

Amazing cookie! <br/>Used an icecream scoop and cooked for 30min-very large wonderful cookie.<br/>Found skor bar bits in the baking isle..sold in a bag like to chocochips.<br/>Thank you!!<br/>Wish I had a picture to post but they were gone so fast lol and I doubled the recipie.<br/>ps the star thingie did seem to work : this cookie is worth more than 5 stars.

 

[JAG0913]

Moist, soft, chewy, delicious. I left out the nuts (just this time). I did use the Heath bits from the bag and I thought they tasted great. However next time I will try the candy pieces. I used a smaller scoop so they weren't giant just normal size.These, obviously, go so good with a big cup of milk.

 

[greysangel]

These are beautiful, easy, soft and chewy cookies. I used a combo of bitter and semi and toasted pecans instead of walnuts. I got about 22 cookies baked for 15 minutes. Make sure to chill the batter... recipe is super easy!

 

[Tybooty]

All I have to say is that these sound absolutely wonderful! I will let you know what I think as soon as I try them... I am excited to try this recipe.

 

[MochaSkyChick]

These cookies are FANTASTIC!!! I made them for my co-workers one day and I got so many complements that they were the best cookies. Everyone loved how chewy they were and how they were like eating a brownie cookie. I used Ghirardelli Chocolate in my recipe, which added to the unbelievably delicious indulgence.