{"id":4339,"date":"2011-03-09T18:34:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T01:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skilletchronicles.com\/content\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2011-03-09T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T01:34:21","slug":"toffee-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skilletchronicles.com\/content\/toffee-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Toffee transforms chocolate chip cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meet my new favorite cookie.<\/p>\n

I know, I’m a fickle cookie lover, easily distracted by the latest flavor sensation.\u00a0 I’ve rarely met a homemade cookie I didn’t like.<\/p>\n

But this combination of toffee and chocolate chips has my number.\u00a0 It’s chewy and nutty at the center with crisp edges and the buttery flavor of toffee playing off\u00a0 bittersweet chocolate chips. One just leads to another and another and…..<\/p>\n

It all began with a cookie I spotted at the bakery counter at the local Whole Foods.\u00a0 I was intrigued by the idea of a toffee cookie and the one I bought was pretty good.\u00a0 But it was too sweet on balance and far too cakey for my taste.\u00a0 I knew it could be much better with a few tweaks.<\/p>\n

I started with a standard chocolate chip cookie batter and began playing around.\u00a0 First I needed to find the toffee and, although I’ve read that toffee chips are available in markets, I couldn’t find any where I live.\u00a0 So I settled on toffee candy bars \u2013 Skor brand were the best \u2013 and chopped them up myself.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I tweaked the proportions of ingredients, cutting the total amount of sweetener and shifting the balance from granulated to brown sugar for deeper flavor.\u00a0 I added sea salt and doubled the vanilla.\u00a0 Then I let the dough rest overnight in the refrigerator to allow it to hydrate.<\/p>\n

The biggest change, though, was a switch from all purpose white to whole wheat pastry flour inspired by Alice Medrich’s incredible cookbook, “Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-In-Your-Mouth Cookies”<\/a> (Artisan, 2010).\u00a0 Alice is a wizard and her whole wheat chocolate chip cookies are so good that no one would ever compare them to dowdy health food store cookies.<\/p>\n

The key is the pastry flour, which is softer and contains less protein than regular whole wheat flour.\u00a0 It produces a tender cookie with a nicely nutty flavor set off by a generous portion of toasted walnuts.<\/p>\n

I’ve been baking these cookies all winter.\u00a0 The story I tell is that I need to test the recipe one more time to make sure it’s right.\u00a0 But I’m not fooling anyone.\u00a0 I’m hooked.<\/p>\n

I hope you love them, too.<\/p>\n

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TOFFEE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES<\/strong>
\nMakes about 3 dozen 3-inch<\/em> <\/p>\n

2 1\/3 cups whole wheat pastry flour
\n1 teaspoon sea salt
\n\u00be teaspoon baking soda
\n1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks) at room temperature
\n\u00be cup muscavado or brown sugar
\n\u00bd cup granulated sugar
\n2 teaspoons vanilla
\n2 large eggs
\n4 ounces chocolate covered toffee (3 Heath or Skor bars), chopped
\n6 ounces bittersweet chocolate chips (1 cup)
\n1\u00bd cups chopped walnuts, toasted<\/p>\n

Whisk together flour, salt and baking soda in a small bowl.<\/p>\n

Beat butter on medium speed in the work bowl of an electric mixer until smooth and fluffy, about 1 minute.\u00a0 Add sugars and beat on medium for 1 minute more.\u00a0 Scrape down bowl and beaters.\u00a0 Beat in vanilla and add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.<\/p>\n

With mixer running on low speed, add flour in three portions, just incorporating the flour from each addition into the batter before introducing the next.\u00a0 Scrape down the bowl if necessary. Stir in toffee bits, chocolate chips and walnuts, distributing them evenly.<\/p>\n

Cover bowl, pressing plastic wrap down to the surface of the dough, and chill at least 3 hours or \u2013 even better \u2013 overnight.<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re ready to bake, remove cookie dough from refrigerator and let it warm up a bit while you preheat the oven to 350 degrees.\u00a0 Spoon dough onto parchment lined baking sheets in 2-tablespoon portions, leaving about 1\u00bd inches between cookies.\u00a0 Bake for about 9-10 minutes, until golden brown and crisp around the edges.<\/p>\n

Remove baking sheets from oven and let cookies rest on them for about 5 minutes before removing cookies with a small spatula and placing them on wire racks to finish cooling.<\/p>\n

Aleta Watson<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Meet my new favorite cookie. I know, I’m a fickle cookie lover, easily distracted by the latest flavor sensation.\u00a0 I’ve rarely met a homemade cookie I didn’t like. But this combination of toffee and chocolate chips has my number.\u00a0 It’s chewy and nutty at the center with crisp edges and the buttery flavor of … Continue reading Toffee transforms chocolate chip cookies<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skilletchronicles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skilletchronicles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skilletchronicles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skilletchronicles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skilletchronicles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.skilletchronicles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4368,"href":"https:\/\/www.skilletchronicles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skilletchronicles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skilletchronicles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skilletchronicles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}