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Seeing as how I’ve been keeping up this here blog for nigh on three plus years now (that’s crazy!), there are a lot of recipes deep in the archives that need a little facelift. New picture. Updated details. Etc, etc. So occasionally as I remake the old recipes we love most, I’ll try and snap a new picture to actually give the food justice and then I update the old post with the new picture.
However, there are a few instances in which I stumble across an old recipe that I’ve forgotten I ever posted in the first place and realize it deserves a whole new blog post. These chocolate chip toffee bars are no exception. I posted them nearly two years ago and they are so delicious and are made so often around here, that in honor of them, instead of just updating an old picture, I’m highlighting them anew.
These are hands down one of my favorite bar desserts to bring to potlucks, BBQ’s and the like. A chocolate chip cookie-like crust is topped with sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chips, toffee bits, morsels of the same dough that adorns the crust and is baked until bubbly and golden.
Once cooled, these bars are some of the most irresistible to pass through my kitchen. Here’s to you, Chocolate Chip Toffee Bars!
P.S. Just so you know, I’m off on a 10-day vacation with my little family. We are headed from the midwest out to the coast to visit my in-laws. I’m hoping my boys survive the excitement of visiting a “real” beach. So if I’m a little slow in responding to emails and comments, that’s why. Please continue to love me during the delay!
Chocolate Chip Toffee Bars
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INGREDIENTS:
2 1/3 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup butter, soft
2 eggs, slightly beaten
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided
1 cup coarsely chopped nuts (optional)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 package toffee bits, divided
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 9X13-inch pan with aluminum foil and lightly spray with nonstick cooking spray.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, salt and brown sugar. Cut in the butter with a pastry blender or fork until the mixture is crumbly. Add eggs and mix well with a wooden spoon or your hands. Mix in 1 1/2 cups of the chocolate chips and the 1 cup nuts, if using. The mixture will be fairly stiff, so again, you may need to use your hands to get everything combined.
Set aside 1 1/2 cups of the dough. Press the remaining dough into the prepared pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and pour the sweetened condensed milk evenly over the crust. Top with all but 1/4 of the toffee bits. Pinch pieces of the reserved dough and scatter over the top. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup chocolate chips. Bake for 25-30 more minutes until golden brown. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup toffee bits on top. Cool completely before serving.
Recipe Source: adapted from Kara’s Kitchen Creations
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Enjoy your vacation! These look fantastic, I love anything that combines chocolate and toffee!
YUM! These look delicious, Mel! I love the toffee and chocolate combination!
Have a wonderful vacation! Of course we will still love you while you’re away!
Hope you have a wonderful vacation! Enjoy time away. These look yummy and I can’t wait to try them. Wish I had some toffee on hand and I would make them right now!!
I want to make these, like, yesterday!
I was searching your site yesterday for a bar recipe. I found this one from when you originally posted it in June 2009. I made them yesterday and then it was your post for today. I had to take a double look. They were amazing!!! My girls LOVED them. Thanks for sharing.
mmmmm fabulous looking treats
I have a feeling these need to be made a reality sooner rather than later! Have a lovely holiday 
Great recipe! Have a happy and safe vacation!
Wowza!! These look soooo scrumpcious!!
You must be a mind reader! LOL!!
I have a terrible sweet tooth and I was craving some sweets for the weekend….guess what I’m making?!?
Have a safe and awesome getaway with the family unit!
Of course the LOVES there…..what’s not to love?!!
Yummy! They look wonderful, and enjoy your vacation
I made these for my husband’s birthday a couple of weeks ago. It’s a favorite recipe with us for sure! I think they were better a day or two after making. They seemed to come together more as they sat. I’m lamenting the fact that they’re all gone now.
I agree with Shana! I liked them even that much better on day 2. I kept mine in the fridge as well and then would take them out about 10-15 minutes before serving. Delicious! Love this recipe, I’m going to have to go make them again now
So glad you get to take some time with the family. Enjoy.
Mel, these look dangerously delicious!
Ooh, those look SO good!!!
These bars have been our favorite for a long time! My boys sold these at a bake sale during our garage sale recently and I had a lady come back to get the recipe! Sooo good.
This look deliicous! gloria
These bars are a family favorite. I have been asked to make these for parties countless times. We LOVE them!!!
These look absolutely delish! Thanks for updating. ENJOY your time away….what fun! You deserve it! Gonna make your Chocolate Mousse Cake for a party tomorrow. Will post a review after I’m finished
YUM!
Those look delicious! Thanks for sharing, again!
Has anyone made these with Heath bar bits rather than plain toffee bits? I can’t seem to find plain toffee in my grocery store and I’m hoping that using the Heath won’t make it too chocolate-y!
i made these with Hershey’s Skor bars (like Heath bars) and they turned out great! But, I would love to know where to find those toffee bits, too!
Megan – I’m sorry you are having such a hard time finding the toffee bits. I have always found them by the chocolate chips and have found them at Walmart and several of my main stream grocery stores. I think you could use the chopped up Heath Bars and it would just add another layer of chocolatey goodness to the bars.
chocolate + toffee = swoon. hope your vacation is (or was) enjoyable!
YUM! I substituted half whole wheat flour and it was great. Thanks!
Oh man these were good! I made them to add to a meal I am delivering to a family in need but of course I had to test them to make sure they were good enough for them
And my kids “needed” some too! I wasn’t sure the balls of dough on top were going to work but they melted down perfectly. I could eat the whole pan!
A perfect treat. Looks like a keeper!
I realize that toffee is in the name, but do you think these would work without? Or would it defeat the whole purpose of the bar? I ask because my son is allergic to nuts and, unfortunately for us (and him, poor guy), toffee bits usually contain almonds.
Kim – sorry you have to work around a nut allergy! I’m sure that is no fun at times. I think you could definitely leave out the toffee bits – the top may be a bit less full of goodness, but they should still bake up fine.
Oh my holy wow! These should be illegal. So VERY VERRY GOOD! ILLEGAL I SAY! I both love and don’t love you Melanie…oh chef of all things delicious. Such a complicated relationship. What might Freud say?
I might have to change the name of these to include something with “crack” in the title. I made them yesterday for a gathering and everyone is addicted! My only change was making my own toffee bits…..thank you for sharing!
I made these as thank you’s and sent some along with a meal I made for a friend in need. They are absolutely addicting! Yum! Yum! Yum!
Can these be frozen?
Christina – I’ve never frozen them but I actually think they would fare quite well if stored in an airtight container.
Do you think that I could chop up reese’s peanut butter cups instead of toffee bits? I’m having a bit of a chocolate/peanut butter craving over here!
Lee-Anne – sounds like it is worth a try to me!
Took me awhile to find which recipe the yummy picture on your home page is, but I have now! I’m going to go make these right now. Thanks for making it so much fun to find new recipes. I think the litle paragraph you write keeps me motivated! So glad I found your blog last week!
I tried these with Reese’s and definetely need the toffee crunch. You also can’t really taste the peanut butter because the condensed milk is so sweet. I let these cool and tried them and mine were also really sticky and looked nothing like the ones in your photo…
I’m going to try a few of the ladies tips in the comments of putting them in the fridge and trying them again on day 2.
It was worth a try, but I need to find toffee bits
I made these tonight for a Saturday night treat. We couldn’t wait until they were completely cool – the delicious smell was torture! Gosh these are good.
i started baking when i was like 5. not even kidding. This was one of the 1st cookies/bars i ever made (because it was on the back of the “hersheys toffee chips” bag. Before the internet, “back-of-bag-recipes” were used a lot more frequently) and i used to make this one all the time because its so good!! and i also never used the nuts. Nuts ruin cookies. Hershey’s calls this “Rich Chocolate Chip Toffee Bars”
http://www.hersheys.com/recipes/recipe-details.aspx?id=3225&name=Rich-Chocolate-Chip-Toffee-Bars
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