Toffee Cookies
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These delightful toffee cookies bring together the buttery flavor of cake mix with the rich flavor of toffee bits. Perfect for a cozy afternoon snack or a sweet ending to a meal, these cookies are a quick and easy addition to your baking collection. With just four simple ingredients and minimal baking time, you’ll have delicious cookies in no time.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Perfect for Any Occasion: These cookies are great for bake sales, family gatherings, or as a simple homemade treat.
- Quick and Easy: This toffee cookie recipe requires just a few ingredients and is ready in under 30 minutes.
- Chewy Texture: The combination of cake mix and toffee bits creates a chewy center with crisp edges.
- Buttery Flavor: The melted butter in the mix ensures a soft cookie with a rich, buttery flavor.
The toffee bits in the cookie dough will melt and make the cookies smell wonderful. Let cool, and you will have a wonderful, light cookie that is fluffy and tasty.
Perfect for a cookie exchange or just a sweet treat! Toffee cookies are wonderfully soft and cake-like bits of heaven. Honestly, no one will know that you used a cake mix either!
Ingredients for homemade toffee cookies
- White or vanilla cake mix (any brand)
- Egg
- Unsalted butter (melted)
- Toffee pieces
How to make chewy toffee cookies
Mix together the cake mix, egg, and melted butter in a mixing bowl.
Add toffee bits.
Drop cookie dough balls by teaspoons (or use a cookie scoop) onto a greased (or coated) cookie sheet. The dough will be a little sticky.
Cook at 350 degrees for 12–13 minutes until golden brown.
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These are just so simple and really good! We make them every year in the springtime and around the holidays. Be sure to try my Chocolate Chip Cake Mix cookies too!
Tips for the Best Results
- Use Room Temperature Ingredients: This helps the cookie dough mix evenly and results in a smoother texture.
- Chill the Dough: If you have a couple of hours, let the dough chill in the fridge. This step is optional, but it helps achieve thicker cookies.
- Monitor Baking Time: Check the cookies for a golden brown color to ensure they are perfectly baked.
- Use a Cooling Rack: Let the cookies cool on a wire rack after baking for the best texture and flavor.
Substitutions and Variations
- Add Chocolate Chips: Mix in some crushed heath bars or classic chocolate chips for a twist on this classic recipe.
- Try Browned Butter: Use browned butter instead of regular melted butter to enhance the toffee flavor and make brown butter toffee cookies.
- Use Parchment Paper: Line your baking sheet with parchment paper for easy cleanup and even baking.
- Incorporate Flaky Sea Salt: Sprinkle some flaky sea salt on top of the cookies before baking for a savory-sweet contrast.
FAQs About This Recipe
Yes, you can use any brand of white or vanilla cake mix. The flavor of the cookie may vary slightly, but it will still be delicious.
Keep the baked cookies in an airtight container to maintain their chewy texture. They can be stored at room temperature for up to a week.
Yes, you can freeze balls of dough wrapped in plastic wrap for later baking. Just let them thaw for a bit before baking.
The combination of cake mix and crunchy toffee bits creates a unique chewy texture and rich flavor not found in traditional cookie recipes.
More great cookie recipes
Simple Toffee Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 box white or vanilla cake mix any brand
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup of butter melted
- 1/2 cup toffee bits
Instructions
- 1. Mix together cake mix, egg, and melted butter.
- 2. Add toffee bits.
- 3. Drop by teaspoons onto a greased (or coated) cookie sheet. The dough will be a little sticky.
- 4. Cook at 350 degrees for 12-13 minutes until golden brown.
- The toffee bits in the cookie dough will melt and make the cookies smell wonderful. Let cool and you will have a wonderful, light cookie that is fluffy and tasty.
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Stopping by after you visited from SITS. Nice to be here again! I pinned your cookie recipe on Pinterest. Sounds easy and yummy! Our family loves toffee!
Thank you for stopping by Kathy! I will check out your boards on Pinterest – I love that site….
I may or may not be drooling right now 🙂 im goung to have to try these! I’m stopping by from SITS & I hope you have a great day!
Thanks for stopping by Nikki!
Oh, those cookies look heavenly! And so easy to make, too! I have some cake mix in my cupboard…I think I will have to mix up a batch today!
They are really tasty Ginny! No one will guess how easy they are! Thanks for your sweet comment.
I love the recipes you share… many times we just want something simpler and still delicious! You always have the right combination! 🙂
Thank you for your sweet comment Paloma!
Not cool!! I have to get in a bathing suit this weekend and now I totally HAVE to make these!! oh welll… i have a feeling it will be worth it!! Thanks for sharing.. always great posts!
Thank you Tami! Oh don’t even get me started on the bathing suits…glad summer is almost over 🙂
Everyone here swears by chocolate chip cookies. I love the ease of cake box cookies though and your version looks delicious!
Chocolate chips could be substituted for sure! They really are easy to make. Thank you for your sweet comment.
Hi Raquel!
What a great blog! Thanks for commenting on mine so I could find YOU! :)! Adding you to my sidebar so I can keep up with all your posts! :)!
Sharon
Thank you Sharon for you sweet comment and for stopping by the island! Can’t wait to see your cabinet reveal! I have been a fan of MOFMM for a long time 🙂
So yummy! Thanks for sharing at the All Star Block Party!
Oh my! Cake mix! These sound delicious!
Thanks for sharing on the All Star Block Party!
ooooo… these look so yummy!! will have to try them out!! 🙂
Lately all the cookies I have been making have been from a cake mix!!! I love that you put toffee bits in yours…YUM!!!
I love toffee and I’m always looking for fun toffee recipes! I’m going to try these out!
Thanks for stopping by Niki!
Believe it or not but I’ve never made toffee-cookies, and these look just great!
I’d love to try so thanks for sharing