Peanut Butter Toffee Cookies

Simple to bake, but absolutely delicious, these Peanut Butter Toffee Cookies will remind you that chocolate-covered toffee is the perfect baked good add-in!

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• ❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
• 🗒 Ingredients
• 🍪 How to make peanut butter toffee cookies
• ⏲️ How to store
• 🎉 Variations on recipe
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(This recipe for Peanut Butter Toffee Cookies was originally published in October 2008, but has been updated with new photos and content in 2019).

There are a lot of candies I believe are totally underrated (Mounds/Almond Joys, Charleston Chews, Midnight Milky Ways to name a few), but none so much as Heath Bars. Or really, chocolate-covered toffee in general.

Chocolate-covered toffee makes for a delightful add-in to baked goods and you don't even have to make your own because it's sold in bar (Heath and Skor) form, as well as baking bit form.

And when combined with peanut butter in desserts? You'll want to start adding toffee to all your baked goods- starting with these peanut butter toffee cookies.

❤️ Why you'll love this recipe

Peanut butter and chocolate-covered toffee are one of the most delicious flavor combinations and so incredibly underrated. You'll love that these cookies take an already loved flavor (peanut butter) and give it a unique touch with the chocolate toffee.

The cookies are incredibly easy to make and will be loved by your friends and family. They're a peanut butter lovers dream come true!

🗒 Ingredients

The ingredients for this peanut butter toffee cookie recipe are pretty standard cookie ingredients. Here's everything you need (be sure to view the recipe card at the bottom of this post for ingredient amounts and full recipe instructions):

• All-purpose flour
• Baking soda
• Salt
• Unsalted butter
• Light brown sugar: you can substitute with dark brown sugar if you want
• Creamy peanut butter (you can use natural peanut butter if you want, but the cookies will likely be a bit drier)
• Large egg
• Chocolate covered toffee bits: like Heath toffee bits

🍪 How to make peanut butter toffee cookies

There's nothing difficult about baking these peanut butter toffee cookies. You can either use a stand mixer with paddle attachment or a hand mixer to mix the batter, but if you don't have either, you can mix them by hand in a large bowl with a wooden spoon (it just gets a little sticky with the peanut butter).

Heat oven to 350 degrees and lining a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Then, in the bowl of a stand mixer or in a large mixing bowl with a hand mixer, beat together butter and brown sugar.

Add the peanut butter and egg and beat it until smooth.

Slowly added the flour mixture and mix until just combined, taking care not to over-mix the cookie dough.

Then it's time to fold in the chocolate-covered toffee pieces. I used the baking Heath Bar bits, but you could also chop up a Heath Bar or a Skor Bar. Fold them into the batter.

And spoon about 1 ½ Tbsps of batter (I like to use a #40 cookie scoop) onto a cookie sheet.

Leave about 2 inches between dough balls as they will spread a little bit.

And put them in the oven at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes until they're just starting to turn golden.

The result is perfectly baked cookies that are packed with some of the best flavors! I sprinkled some more toffee bits on top to make these peanut butter toffee cookies extra delicious. 

I also ate a few handfuls out of the bag. Just keeping things honest!

This is the kind of cookie that you'll likely find yourself eating way too may of. It's also the kind of cookie that will hopefully reignite your love of toffee and make you realize that you should always have some bars or bags of bits in your baking pantry.

Though chances are, you'll find yourself snacking on them before you can add them to any baked goods. Just make sure you brush your teeth extra well as toffee can be seriously sticky.

⏲️ How to store

When the cookies are completely cooled, I recommend storing them in an airtight container at room temperature.

When stored properly, they should keep fresh for about a week.

🎉 Variations on recipe

When it comes to peanut butter and chocolate toffee, you really don't need anything else. But, of course, you can make these delicious cookies however you want and utilize any add-ins your desire.

Here are some fun ideas:

• For more chocolate flavor add chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, or peanut butter chips.
• If you're not a fan of chocolate, use plain toffee pieces instead.
• Add chopped nuts like almonds or peanuts for extra crunch.
• For extra chewiness, mix toasted oats into the cookie batter.
• Adding pretzel pieces to the batter will give the cookies a little crunch and saltiness.
• When cookies are cooled, add a melted chocolate drizzle over the top.
• Top the cookies with flaky sea salt right when they come out of the oven.
• You can make the cookies with almond butter or sunbutter if you prefer. You can also use chunky peanut butter if you want more crunch.
• You can use half white sugar in the cookies if you prefer crispier peanut butter cookies to chewy peanut butter cookies.

And now I think a peanut butter toffee candy bar needs to be invented. Why is this not a thing yet?

And I'm hereby starting a petition to add toffee to more desserts. It's the perfect addition to so many different flavors!

Are you as in love with the peanut butter and toffee combination as I am?

I hope these peanut butter toffee cookies become favorites in your home!

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