I recently came across a Toffee Square recipe that I kept from my Home Ec class back in Junior High. I remembered them being very good, so I decided to give them a try again.
I changed the recipe a bit and updated it as well, and came up with these delicious, easy to make, bars.
There isn’t much to putting this together, just make sure your butter is at room temperature.
I mix the salt in with the flour,
Mix the butter, sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla together first to get a nice creamy batter. No need for a stand mixer, hand beater work just fine for this.
Using a wooden spoon or firm rubber spatula, mix in the flour, salt, and half of the package of toffee bits. The result will be a crumbly batter.
Make sure to spray you pan with cooking spray before adding the batter. I find it is just as easy to press the batter down with my hands as it is a wooden spoon. The crumbly batter will press together to form the bars.
Bake them for 20 to 25 minutes, no more. The bars will be soft but a toothpick will come out clean. As the bars cool, they will firm up.
Remove the bars from the oven and sprinkle the chocolate chips and the rest of the toffee bits over the top. Put it back in the oven for a minute or 2 to melt the chocolate.
Remove from the oven and spread the chocolate out over the top.
Let them cool for about 1/2 hour before cutting to allow the bars to firm up a bit and the chocolate to solidify a bit.
These are great warm or cold. I eating one topped with vanilla bean ice cream.
Enjoy!
Toffee Bars
Equipment
- Large bowl and mixer
- Medium bowl
- Wooden spoon or firm rubber spatula
- 9 x 13” pan
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened at room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- 1 each egg yolk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- ½ pkg heath toffee bits
Topping:
- ½ pkg heath toffee bits
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a stand mixer or bowl, mix butter, sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla. Scrape down sides.
- Mix in flour, salt, and toffee bits (dough will appear crumbly).
- Spray a 9 x 13 in pan with cooking spray. Spoon dough into pan, level and smooth top. It may be easier to use your hands or the back of a wooden spoon.
- Bake 20 to 25 minutes. Bars will be soft, but a toothpick should come out clean.
- Remove from oven and sprinkle on chocolate chips and the rest of the toffee bits.
- Turn off oven and put bars back in oven for a minute or 2 to melt the chocolate.
- Remove from oven and smooth chocolate over top of bars with a spatula.
- Allow to cool for about 1/2 hour before cutting.
- Cut into 20 bars.