After unpacking, cleaning, doing laundry, I baked cookies. Our friends were visiting from California and I wanted to make them an extra special treat. I took my chances and made up a new cookie recipe. I wanted to create a cookie with all of my favorite things: almonds, toffee, chocolate chips, and oatmeal.
I started with a basic chocolate chip oatmeal cookie base. I then added in almond extract, chopped almonds, chopped Heath bars, and chocolate chips. The cookies were loaded with goodies!
I know I baked these cookies for our friends, but of course I had to sample them, just to make sure they were safe and good enough to handout:) One bite and I was in heaven! These are my new favorite cookie! I LOVED them! The toffee melted throughout the oatmeal cookie. The almond bits and chocolate chips bulked up the cookies in the most perfect way.
I am glad I wrapped these cookies up and gave them away. I know if they were sitting on the counter I would not be able to resist. They are that good!
½ c. brown sugar
½ c. white sugar
½ cup softened unsalted butter
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
¼ tsp. almond extract
¼ tsp. Salt
½ tsp. Baking powder
½ tsp. Baking soda
1 ¼ c. flour
1 ¼ c. oats-not quick oats
Chocolate chips-¾ cup
2 Heath bars-chopped
Almonds, chopped-about ¾ cup
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. In a medium bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. Combine butter and sugar in your mixing bowl. Beat until smooth. On low, add in egg, vanilla, and almond extract. Beat until combined.
Slowly add in the dry ingredients. Stir in the oats, chocolate chips, Heath, and almonds. The dough should be nice and thick, with chunks of goodness
Scoop dough into balls and place on a cookie sheet lined with Silpats or parchment. Bake for 10-12 minutes! Allow to cool for a minute on the cookie sheet. Move to a cooling rack and indulge!
These sounds great. I would love the melted toffee.
Lucky friends!! 🙂
So yummy. What a great treat for your friends. I always miss my kitchen when I'm away
Anytime there is toffee involved is a sign of rich deliciousness! Thank you.
Sadly, WHole wheat flour does not work well with chocolate chip cookies, there are some things not meant to be changed and this is one. I love them with oats the way you have made it.
Oh my word these look fantastic!!!
Holy Yum! They look amazing. Mmmm…toffee.
I've never had chopped almonds in a cookie. Great idea!
I love that you came back to the kitchen almost immediately 🙂 Welcome back!
Wow…these sound great!
sigh. you make the BEST cookies. i totally wish i was your neighbor…
Oh no, I am in trouble with these. I love toffee and almonds, so of course I have to make them. Visiting your site is really bad for my diet! 🙂
Ok, these cookies were AMAZING. Like, just aMAZEing. And I say "like" because I'm from california. Ha.
Here's my review:
There is simply nothing greater than visiting a friend who has developed a food blog with so many posts dedicated to baking. It's like a guaranteed party in a box! I was extremely pleased to spy a cutely packaged bag of cookies on the kitchen counter during our visit and kept my fingers crossed the entire time, hoping that they were specifically set out for me. Boy, was I stoked to find out they were! I say "stoked" a lot because I'm from california.
There is really nothing better in THIS WORLD than crunchy-on-the-outside, soft-and-melty-on-the-inside stack of cookies. The toffee bits melted directly into the oats, the combo of chocolate chips and chocolate outside of the toffee bar led to a magical meld of goodness in my mouth. Add in crunchy almond bits and the sweetness of almond extract? TERRIFIC.
And although food allergies are not usually cause for celebration, the guy who accompanied me during the visit is deathly allergic to tree nuts. The whole stack was mine, mine, ALL MINE!! Bwaahaahaha.
I definitely returned back to california with ZERO cookies. C'mon, I had a full day of vacation left AND was delayed at the airport for a couple of hours. They were heavenly and AWESOME. And I say "awesome" a lot because I am.
Thanks again, guys!
-leslie
What gorgeous flavors! I'm drooling…
Cheers,
Rosa
Cute packaging! I love all the flavors in these yummy cookies.
Sounds like you had a good break. What terrific looking cookies – I could use a couple right now with my afternoon coffee.
Ooh, I love that last pic! These look and sound delicious. What I wouldn't do for one of those right now.
Come on over, I made a recipe inspired by you 🙂
wow!!!!!! toffee…thts new to me although i did try brownies with toffee once…our likes quite match…lol…i like almonds, toffee, oats, chocolate too….;p
Wow, they sound really good. I'm so glad you invented this new cookie! I'll have to remember it.
I love toffee in a cookie-these sound great.
Mmm, the toffee sounds great!!
Everything you put in these cookies sound delicious. And nicely packaged too!
Leslie-You are too cute! It was my pleasure baking cookies for you! We hope you guys will come visit again!!
Love the way you package them! They sound yummy!!
I adore toffee bits in oatmeal cookies, yummy!
Cute packaging! The cookies look deeee-lish.
I am the same – always happy to be back home cooking after a vacation.
Yum! I love chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, so all the add ons sound even better!
I'm counting 6 cookies in that (very cute)package and I know you ate one cookie. That is 7 cookies. I have a pretty good feeling that recipe made more then 7 cookies. Where is the rest of the cookies??? Awe…Are you sending them to me???
I also saw on twitter that its hard for you to gain weight. Honey, I got that handled for ya. I'm an expert in this field. Just come stay with me for a while and I can fix ya up. Guaranteed!
Megan-You are right the batch made more than 7 cookies. Before I added in the almonds, I baked off some for Josh. We also bagged up some cookies for our other friends who took us to the airport. I promise I didn't eat them all:)
Great creation! Love all the things you tossed in! I'm totally itching to cook and bake too after having last week off! I made bread monday night, and then biscotti and granola last night lol 🙂
This is why I love cookies – not only are they portable and easy to make, but they are like a blank canvas just waiting for goodies to be thrown at them. Love this combo!
These sound great with all those goodies in there!!
These cookies look loaded and amazing. Divine!
Oatmeal and toffee are a winning combination!
The combination sounds so terrific and I love the way they look in their neat little package. The texture on these must be great.
that's it… I am moving to Utah 🙂 These look absolutely delicious… although I'm with your hubby on the no almonds. These would be perfect for me for breakfast this morning… haha
Mmmm these look so great. I love love love toffee in anything…and oatmeal cookies are a favorite, too.
Oh my they look delicious!
Thanks everyone! I Hope you try them!
This is exactly the sort of biscuit I love – great presentation too with the gingham ribbon
Your cookies looks delicious. Yum!
Hi,
It's Lincoln's sister, Lyssa. I'm wondering how you resist eating all this delicious food? I've tried a few of your recipes and always love them. Thanks for a fun, informative, useful blog!
Mmm, I love that toffee and almond combo!
Lyssa-Great to hear from you! Don't worry I do eat what we make, I promise! I just don't eat it all:) I am glad you liked the recipes you have tried!
I am addicted to toffee anything… These sound fabulous!
Ooooh! These look incredible, Maria! You make lots of amazing cookies, so if these are your new favorite, I know that I'd better try them!
These look amazing! They're like English toffee oatmeal cookies, with the almonds and the chocolate.
I've done a similar one, well, I guess it just had chocolate and almonds, but I loved them. You've just added another dimension with the oats and toffee! Yum-o!
They look fantastic, love the almond extract in them! Toffee is just so good!
These look and sound great. I'm a toffee lover. Have a great day.
These cookies are loaded! They look like a cookie that men would just love!
Oh my goodness, I really shouldn't blog surf when I'm hungry! These look SO good!
These look really good! Would love some right now!
Oh wow! Could these have anymore awesome things in them?! All of my favorites. They sound so good.
These look really scrumptious!!
Oh Yum! Toffee is my favorite, especially in a cookie.
clearly, all you had to say was "heath" and i was on board. that's one of the finest candy bars ever made. question: what in the world is the difference between heath and skor?
They look THAT good. I'd love these w/ the added almonds and toffee- my two fave things to incorporate into baked goods!
You sure do bake the best cookies! Do you ship?!
These cookies are full of yummy things!
Next time let me know because I will give you my shipping address 🙂 I was drooling and then you mentioned heath bars and woo hoo!!!!
Nicely done!
I love when cookies look perfect and delicious! No one wants to try an ugly cookie! These look wonderful
how lovely!!! i miss baking cookies… gotta do it soon… 🙂
That sounds like the world's most perfect cookie! I love your packaging, too.
Maria, lets see how those big boys travel! 🙂 Great job, those are all flavors/ingredients that I love, too!
~ingrid
YUUUMMM!
Yumm delicious creation! And the ribbon you tied the cookies with is so cute.
These were great! My new favorite. I will be making these again and again. Thanks! I am so glad I found your blog!
Those sound FABULOUS!! What a great combo!
Oh my goodness what divine cookies!
Those cookies look so good!
Oh they sure do look DIVINE!!!!!!
These are the BEST! My husband and his whole bible study group raved about them. The only problem is they only make about 2 dozen 🙂
Renee-you can always double the recipe:) Glad the cookies were a hit!
Going shopping soon for the ingredients for these cookies! About the Heath bars, what size bar do you use – the big full-size one or the smaller snack size bars? or can i use the Heath toffee bits? Thank you!
You can chop up any of them and they will work. The bits work too!