Shelly's Recipe

CHOCOLATE TOFFEE SUGAR COOKIES

Category: Cookies

1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
3 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

For decorating:
6 oz semisweet chocolate
1/2 cup toffee bits (such as Heath brand)
4 oz white chocolate

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add in eggs and vanilla and mix.

In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt and whisk to combine. Slowly add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until completely combined.

Shape the dough into 2 flat disks and wrap in saran wrap and place in the refrigerator to chill for 1-2 hours (any longer than that and your dough will be too stiff too handle - if that happens, let it rest at room temperature for about 10 minutes before rolling).

Take out the dough and roll 1/4-inch thick and cut into heart shapes. Place on parchment or silpat lined baking sheets, spacing the cookies about 1 inch apart and bake at 350 for about 10-11 minutes. The cookies should be very lightly browned around the edges so they aren't too soft and they do not fold and break when decorating with the chocolate and toffee. Remove to cool on a wire rack.

While the cookies are cooling, line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silpat liners. When the cookies are cool, melt the semisweet chocolate. (Instead of dipping, I used a rubber spatula to paint the chocolate onto one-half of the cookie, coating the top and sides of the cookie. I found that dipping made the chocolate glob in places and wasted too much by coating the bottom of the cookie.)

Once covered in chocolate, place the cookie on the prepared baking sheet. Working with a few cookies at a time, sprinkle the wet chocolate with toffee pieces. Coat all the cookies with chocolate and toffee. Let dry completely (I popped mine in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes to let the chocolate harden).

When the chocolate is dry, melt the white chocolate and pour into a ziploc bag. Snip a small tip off one corner and lightly drizzle the cookies with white chocolate. Let the white chocolate harden (again, another trip to the refrigerator) and once the white chocolate has set up, the cookies can be removed from the tray (you may have to break of lingering pieces of white chocolate on the edges of the cookie).