Decadent cookies loaded with chocolate chips and toffee bits. These toffee-chocolate chip shortbread cookies are perfectly sweet, chewy, and crunchy from the toffee bits!
There are not enough words to describe the awesomeness of these chocolate chip toffee cookies. They’re buttery and crunchy, with a combination of sweet and salty. Pretty much everything you need in one bite! The recipe starts with a basic chocolate chip recipe like air fryer chocolate chip cookies or chocolate chip walnut cookies.
Ingredients
Making toffee-chocolate chip cookies is easy and only requires staple pantry ingredients. Here’s a list of ingredients you need.
- Butter. I use unsalted butter at room temperature
- Sugar. Use regular granulated sugar
- Vanilla extract to enhance the flavors
- Flour. As always, use all-purpose flour
- Salt to balance the sweetness and sea salt for some final texture on top
- Chocolate chips and toffee bits make these cookies taste amazing
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How to make toffee cookies
- Preheat oven to 350ºF and line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Using an electric mixer on medium-high speed, cream butter, sugar, and vanilla until smooth. Stir in flour and salt just until a dough forms. Fold in chocolate chips and toffee bits.
- Using your hands, roll dough into 1-inch balls. Place on a prepared baking sheet, 1 inch apart, pressing lightly on each one with a moistened palm. Sprinkle with sea salt.
- Bake until cookies are firm and golden around the edges, 12 to 14 minutes. Place baking sheet on a wire rack for 5 minutes, then transfer cookies to rack to cool. Repeat with the remaining dough. Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days.
Serving & storing
I love warm, fresh-from-the-oven cookies! They’re warm, melty, chocolatey, and decadent at the same time. Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days.
Variations
- Brown butter if you prefer a nutty aroma in your cookies. To do this, melt the butter in a pot over the stove until it caramelizes. Continuously stirring until the butter turns brown.
- Use chocolate chunks if you’re a fan of chocolate.
- More ingredients you can add include toasted coconuts, chopped walnuts, or almonds for chunky, nutty bites.
These chewy shortbread cookies are the perfect blend of the classic chocolate chip cookie and the toffee crunch.
Toffee-Chocolate Chip Shortbread
Ingredients
- 8 tbs (1 stick) unsalted butter at room temperature
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips
- ½ cup toffee bits
- Sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF and line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Using an electric mixer on medium-high speed, cream together butter, sugar and vanilla until smooth. Stir in flour and salt just until a dough forms. Fold in chocolate chips and toffee bits.
- Using your hands, roll dough into 1-inch balls. Place on prepared baking sheet, 1 inch apart, pressing down lightly on each one with a moistened palm. Sprinkle with sea salt.
- Bake until cookies are firm and just golden around edges, 12 to 14 minutes. Place baking sheet on a wire rack for 5 minutes, then transfer cookies to rack to cool. Repeat with remaining dough. Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days.
Kirbie says
Yum, these look delicious! And I love the cute packaging you made with the ice cream pints!
Linda says
Thank you 🙂
Julie @ Tastes of Lizzy T says
I LOVE shortbread. And toffee & chocolate inside sounds perfect! Sharing!
Linda says
Thanks, Julie. Yes – toffee + chocolate in the form of shortbread is amazing!
JulieD says
These look so good, Linda! And I love the clever packaging! Thanks so much for being a part of the cookie swap!
Linda says
Thanks, Julie. I’m glad to have you organizing this event.
Camille K says
Yum! That packaging is so cute!
Linda says
Thanks 🙂
Sara says
Amazing cookies and awesome packaging!!!!!
Linda says
Thanks, Sara. Glad you enjoyed them.
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella says
Oh I just saw a similar recipe on another blog! It’s raining toffee chocolate chip cookies today! And that can only be a good thing! 😀
Linda says
Totally, never get bored with toffee choco chips 🙂
Carolann says
Oh my goodness these looks amazing. Pinned and on my list of things to bake!
Linda says
Thanks and hope you like them much.
Jocelyn (Grandbaby cakes) says
I am pretty obsessed with technology too but what can you really do? Well for starters, I can make myself a batch of these amazing cookies!
Linda says
Yayyy! Hope you like them!
Liz says
This is such a fun event! And the cookies you made look DIVINE!!! Love that you added toffee 🙂
Linda says
Thanks, Liz. Isn’t toffee amazing?
The Ninja Baker says
It is incredible to think that 2015 is days away! Must say your toffee chocolate chip shortbread do look like a terrific way to celebrate the holidays =) Love your pretty packaging and photos, too, Linda =)
Linda says
I know! I’ve been counting down to 2015 and yes, these shortbread cookies is a perfect way to end 2014. 🙂
Ala says
Cuuuuuute packaging! omg, I’m in love, Linda. If only I had heard about the great cookie swap earlier, this sounds like so much fun and goodness knows I would’ve loved to swapped cookies with you 😉 probably because I looove toffee so much, too. Gah for 2015!!
Linda says
Thanks, Ala. I’ll let you know next time or we can do it our own 🙂
Alice @ Hip Foodie Mom says
Linda!! love the packaging that YOU did!! so cute!! where did you buy those from?? and love these cookies!!! and I know. . I can’t believe Christmas is next WEEK and then 2014 is over!!! crazy!!
Linda says
Thanks, Alice. I designed the packaging myself 🙂 Hope you got a chance to bake them.