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Easy Toffee Bars have a buttery brown sugar shortbread crust topped with melted chocolate, butterscotch chips and toffee bits. An easy dessert recipe perfect for the holiday season!
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Easy Toffee Bar Recipe
If you need an easy fall dessert, Thanksgiving dessert or bar cookie for a Christmas holiday cookie party, these Toffee Bars are for you!
They have a melt-in-your-mouth shortbread base topped with a layer of smooth semi sweet chocolate, butterscotch morsels and crunchy toffee bits, and they are absolutely delicious!
I found this easy recipe for toffee bars in my grandma's old recipe collection. I hadn't had them in ages, but I remember really enjoying them (probably a little too much) around Thanksgiving and Christmas! Actually, you can enjoy these anytime!
To be clear, these are not toffee bars with sweetened condensed milk or Saltine toffee bars made with crackers. They're more of a cookie bar topped with melted chocolate.
Ingredients
You only need a few simple ingredients for chocolate toffee bars. They should be easy to find in your grocery store. Full amounts are in the printable recipe card below.
- Butter -- I use salted softened butter at room temperature, but unsalted is fine.
- Brown sugar
- Egg yolk
- Vanilla extract
- Flour -- all purpose flour
- Salt
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips -- to top the bars. I prefer semi sweet chocolate to balance out the sweetness, but milk chocolate chips also work.
- Butterscotch morsels -- for the topping
- Heath bars -- or chopped toffee candy or toffee bits
How to Make Toffee Bars with a Shortbread Crust
First, take your butter out of the fridge to soften up a little. It makes it much easier to work with!
Then, cream butter with the brown sugar and an egg yolk in a large bowl. Mix in the vanilla, flour and salt until it's well combined. The dough will be very stiff, but this is normal.
Parchment paper isn't absolutely necessary, but it makes it so much easier to lift the bars out of the pan for slicing. Less mess, too!
Press the dough into the pan so it covers the bottom. It might go up on the sides a little, which is fine.
Baking Time
Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until the crust is a light golden brown. Don't over bake! Sprinkle chocolate chips over the crust, and pop the pan back into the oven for about a minute or just until the chips start to melt.
Use a spatula or offset spatula to spread that lovely melted chocolate over the crust. Then, let it cool slightly, and sprinkle your butterscotch morsels and some crushed toffee chips over the chocolate.
If you can't find packaged toffee bits, just smash up a couple of Heath Bars. You might want to save a couple if your kids get any Heath Bars on Halloween!
How to Store Toffee Cookie Bars
Store the bars in an airtight container for 4-5 days. You can leave them at room temperature or in the refrigerator if your house is warm. Freeze the bars wrapped in plastic wrap and aluminum foil for up to 3 months.
Helpful Tips
I recommend lining the baking dish with parchment paper or aluminum foil as it is much easier to remove the bars for easy slicing. Lightly spray the baking pan with cooking spray so the parchment paper fits tightly in the pan.
Allow the bars to cool completely at room temperature before scoring. If you are freezing the bars, slice them up first, and then wrap them.
You can use any toffee candy to top the bars. Crushed peanuts or pecans are also good on these. You can leave out the butterscotch chips to tone down the sweetness.
More Easy Cookie Bar Recipes
If you love bar cookies, try my Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars or cake mix cookie bars or Grandma's lemon bars. Or browse even more easy dessert recipes your family will love!
Recipe
Easy Toffee Bars
Published by Dee
Easy Toffee Bars have a buttery brown sugar shortbread crust topped with melted chocolate, butterscotch chips and toffee bits. An easy dessert recipe perfect for the holiday season!
5 from 9 votes
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Prep Time 15 minutes mins
Cook Time 21 minutes mins
cooling time 30 minutes mins
Total Time 1 hour hr 6 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 15 bars
Calories 154 kcal
Ingredients
Shortbread crust
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
Topping
- 2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup butterscotch chips
- ¼ cup crushed toffee bits
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350℉
In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, sugar and egg yolk
Stir in the vanilla, flour and salt. Batter will be very thick
Line a 9 x 13-inch metal pan with parchment paper, (recommended) and press the dough into the pan so that it covers the bottom
Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until crust is light golden brown. It may puff up but will settle when cool
Remove from oven, sprinkle with chocolate chips, and return to oven for 1 minute or until chips start to melt
Remove from oven, use spatula to spread chocolate evenly over crust, and allow to cool slightly
Sprinkle butterscotch morsels and toffee bits over melted chocolate, and allow to cool completely before removing from pan ( lift the parchment paper up) and cutting into bars
Notes
Can grease the pan if not using parchment paper. If using glass baking dish, reduce heat to 325 degrees.
Tip -- Spray the baking pan with non stick spray before adding parchment paper to help the paper fit better in the pan.
If you can't find toffee bits, used crushed Heath bars for the topping or use crushed nuts.
Nutrition information is estimated. Please do your own calculation to fit special diets.
Nutrition
Calories: 154kcalCarbohydrates: 17gProtein: 1gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 20mgSodium: 76mgPotassium: 72mgFiber: 1gSugar: 12gVitamin A: 177IUCalcium: 14mgIron: 1mg
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Recipe published in 2019 and updated in 2023.
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