Butter Toffee Cookies from Julie Blanner

Butter Toffee Cookies - made dough January 15, 2023 from Julie Blanner 

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar, packed

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 egg

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup toffee bits

1. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar until well combined, light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Mix in egg and vanilla extract until just combined.
2. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add to butter mixture in two additions, mixing on low speed until just combined. Fold in toffee bits.
3. Portion into dough balls, cover and chill for at least 2 hours.
4. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Evenly space chilled dough balls. Bake 8 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Remove from oven and let rest on baking sheets for several minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.

I've been wanting to try out this recipe because of how they looked on Julie Blanner's blog: cute little morsels of buttery toffee cookie goodness. They reminded me of my friend AnnietheBaker.com's cookies in being cute, little and chubby.

As you can tell from the pictures, my attempt didn't come out as cute and chubby. I did make them little though with my smallest cookie scoop. The recipe said to only bake for 8 minutes. But at 8 minutes in my oven, while they hadn't spread yet, they were still definitely raw dough. Even though cookies continue baking on a hot baking sheet even after you remove it from the oven, I knew they were still too raw to take out. I don't mind underbaked cookies and actually prefer them but I don't care for raw ones.

Hence why I baked mine for longer, about 12-13 minutes and ended up with little, not flat or thin cookies but definitely with more spread than the original blog.

But don't let that put you off as these cookies were excellent. Just the right morsel-sized bite and they really were buttery toffee goodness.

These make perfect little tea cookies and were also easy to pack into care packages to fill in smaller gaps and corners.