I hope everyone had a great Christmas! So I definitely didn’t complete my goal in blogging about 12 cookies before Christmas, but I’ll finish it by the end of the month.. Promise! I got so wrapped up in baking for the holidays that I didn’t have time to take a breather and take pictures/blog. For Christmas, I ended up baking 24 dozen cookies for my family and close families to me. I know, crazy, right? I used two ovens and baked for 4 hours straight. I made all the dough the night before so I could just bake all of yesterday. There were a total of 6 different types of cookies and the result was well worth it!
Day 10 of my twelve days of cookies: Heath Bar cookies! These are hands down my boyfriend’s favorite cookie. He adores toffee and even sneaked a ton to save for himself for later. I found the recipe over at Simply Recipes and adapted it just a tiny bit with the amount of vanilla. This made just over 4 dozen cookies for me, since I made a slightly bigger cookie than normal. These cookies are some of my favorites as well, since the walnut and toffee just go hand in hand.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups chopped Heath Bar pieces (Eight 1.4 ounce bars)
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 Sift together the flour, salt, and baking soda. Set aside. In a separate bowl, combine Heath Bar pieces and chopped walnuts. Set aside.
2 Cream butter until fluffy. Add the sugar and continue to beat until light and fluffy (a couple minutes). Beat in eggs one at a time, and vanilla.
3 Alternatively mix in the Heath Bar mixture and the flour mixture, a third at a time, until well blended. Chill cookie dough for at least 30 minutes (better an hour).
4 Preheat oven to 350°F. On cookie sheets lined with parchment paper or Silpat, spoon out the cookie dough in small 1-inch diameter balls (size of a large marble). Place dough balls 3 inches away from each other on the cookie sheets. (Make sure there is plenty of room between the cookie balls, and that the cookie balls aren’t too big. These cookies spread!)
5 Bake for 10-12 minutes, until the edges are just starting to brown. Remove from oven and let cool for a few minutes. Then transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
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and when you open it up, there’s a little black bag inside of it…
and inside the little black bag, is this beauty!:
It’s the YSL mail ring, which is the style I’ve been obsessed with as of late! I’m dying to track down a YSL mail bag and wallet. But yeah.. LOVE IT! I got him an SB600 external flash for his Nikon. How nerdy, I know. What did you guys get for Christmas? Any fun goodies?
LOVE that ring! bluefly was actually selling the wallet in silver for around $300 a while back but i think it’s sold out now. definitely keep an eye out there though, they might restock.
The ring is beautiful! Congratulations! I’m glad you had a great Christmas.
Those cookies look delicious. I’ll have to make them very soon.
I got a Canon XSi with a 50mm lens. I also received a tamal/pasta/vegetable steamer set, clothes, and a bunch of other baking appliances. I’m very content.
I’m looking forward to more cookies!
wow, the ring’s reeeally nice. and so is the box. haha.
Yum toffee cookies! My DH would love those!! And what a beautiful ring, what a sweet guy you have!
I made these cookies on Sunday, with some variations (I didn’t have heath bars, but I did have toffee and milk chocolate chunks, so I used those. I also didn’t have walnuts so I used pecans). They were absolutely delicious.
At first I was surprised that the dough needed to be chilled – but once I did it, it made total sense. They were yummy and easy to make – and my 6 year old had a blast helping.
Thanks for a fun Sunday activity. 🙂
Such a pretty peice of art! I got a black licorice Kitchen Aid Pro Series mixer!!! I was so excited because now I can bake more effectively and more!!
Hey Kim,
I really want to make these cookies, but the grocery store I go to has a very limited selection of goods. I searched for heath bars and could not find them! What do you suggest substituting? Would butterfingers work?
-Jess