Toffee Peanut Butter Cookies

Toffee Peanut Butter Cookies

My oldest survived his first day of 2nd grade. I was worried how my youngest would do with not going to school until next year, but he was a trooper. His biggest complaint was waking up at 7 am this morning. I really don't blame him, it takes a couple of weeks for everyone in the house to re-adjust to a school schedule. It was nice to be able to sit down with a cup of coffee this morning while my youngest was playing in his bedroom. I could feel the stress of the summer melting off of me. Don't get me wrong there will be lots of homework, school events, sports etc this school year. However, there will also be the school hours where I only have one child. With two boys all I have heard this summer has been lots of noise. I had no idea how much noise a 4 and 7 year old boy can possibly make while in the same house for two months. Mommy needed a break. After my cup of coffee I spent the rest of the day cleaning up after summer. Every year after school starts I spend a day going through the house and taking things to donate. I ended up with two bags of old toys from my boy's room so I made decent progress and my house stayed nice and quiet until the bus came. To celebrate the start of the school year, I did a little baking. Today I tried a new recipe for Toffee Peanut Butter Cookies from the Hershey's website.

Owingsville, Kentucky

This recipe has10 ingredients. It takes 25 minutes of total time, 15 minutes is which is active and makes 36 cookies. I made a number of significant changes to the original recipe. First, I changed the all-purpose flour to gluten free flour. I found that I had to add slightly more gluten free flour in order for the dough to come together and not be too thin and spread during baking. I only had a half of a bag of toffee chips left, so I added the entire amount into the dough instead of following the procedure in the recipe. It made the texture of the cookie more what I was desired.

Downtown Owingsville, Kentucky

Gluten free baking can be hit or miss, but these cookies turned out well. I made a batch with regular flour also and according to my kids they were great. I slightly increased the baking time since they didn't appear fully browned at 8 minutes. This recipe would also be delicious with a combination of the toffee chips and dark chocolate chips. I love anything with dark chocolate.

For the recipe go to Toffee Peanut Butter Cookies.

Toffee Peanut Butter Cookies

Recipe Type: Dessert

Summary:

A recipe for peanut butter cookies with toffee chips. Take only 8 minutes to bake.

Preparation Time: 0h, 15m

Cooking Time: 0h, 8m

Total Time: 0h, 25m

Yield: 36 cookies

Milk Chocolate Toffee Bars

Milk Chocolate Toffee Bars

I was looking over my son's paperwork for school and noticed the new policies for school behavior. After reading it I realized that according to the new policy I am a bully. See they are now defining bullying as giving another student a 'look'. All the women in my family have a 'look'. It's the look that says that you better stop talking and go into the other room or your going to dig yourself into a hole. I also have a tendency to glare when I think someone is acting a little dense. This evening I discovered that apparently that makes me a bully. Hopefully they are being more serious with what is defined by a look being a form of bullying. I'm pretty sure I gave and received a lot of looks in high-school. I do understand that it can be far more serious such as a bunch of girls continuously giving another girl the evil eye. It just sounds funny when it isn't further defined. Sometimes it takes behavior that I need to modify in my kids to remind me that I need to change some of my own behaviors. The world would be a better place if we all stopped to re-access how we treat each other, even the small things such as eye gestures. On to lighter subjects, the recipe! Yesterday I tried a new recipe for Milk Chocolate Toffee Bars from Better Homes and Gardens.

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This recipe has 8 ingredients. It takes 55 minutes of total time, 25 minutes of which is active and makes 36 bars. I only made a few changes to the original recipe. My pantry cupboards have been less than organized lately and my cinnamon seemed to have disappeared into it's shelves. So I left it out of the recipe. It was probably for the best since my two boys aren't big fans of the taste of cinnamon. My schedule has been a little crazy so I cheated and used pre-chopped pecans. With sales it turned out that they were actually cheaper than buying the pecans whole. The total cooking time was slightly longer than the recipe suggested. It took approximately 35 minutes to fully brown.

Garden Roses

These bar cookies are pretty rich. My husband and kids are normally huge sweets eaters, but they were only able to eat one of these cookies at a time since they were so sweet. Since I can't eat gluten I wasn't able to try this recipe, but all the males in my house loved it. They would be great to take to a bake sale or a party since they make 36 bars and taste good enough that you can just eat one.

For the recipe go to Milk Chocolate Toffee Bars.

Milk Chocolate Toffee Bars

Recipe Type: Dessert

Summary:

A rich and delicious bar cookie recipe. Great for a party or bake sale.

Preparation Time: 0h, 25m

Cooking Time: 0h, 25m

Total Time: 0h, 50m

Yield: 36 Bars