Crisp Toffee Bars Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9 x 13-inch glass baking dish.
• In a large bowl, beat together the butter, sugar, salt, and vanilla. Add the flour and mix well to combine. Stir in the walnuts and chocolate chips.
• Press the dough into the prepared pan. Bake until golden and set, about 20 minutes. Cut into even squares while still warm.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Place a rack in the middle and place a 10-inch cast-iron skillet on it.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter on low speed for about a minute, until softened. Scrape down the bowl and the paddle.
• With the mixer running at low speed, add salt and vanilla. Add the brown sugar, then turn the speed up to medium and beat until mixture is the color of peanut butter and fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes. Scrape down the bowl again.
• With the mixer running at low speed, shake in flour, beating just until dough holds together. Mix in nuts or chocolate just until combined.
• Remove the hot skillet from the oven and place a small lump of butter in it. As butter melts, brush it onto the bottom and sides of the pan until evenly coated.
• Dump dough into skillet and press it out to evenly fill the skillet. You can use your fingers (being careful to avoid touching the hot pan), a potato masher or the bottom of a measuring cup. Press dough down firmly to make a compact, even layer.
• Transfer to oven and bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until the top is walnut brown. You may be tempted to take it out when the edges have begun to darken, but let it continue to cook so the entire surface can take on that color. There may be bubbles visible on top of the dough; that's a good sign.
• Remove from the oven and let cool in the pan. If necessary, run a butter knife around the sides of the pan to loosen. Square off the circle shape of the pan by cutting the four rounded edges off; you will have an approximately 9-inch square. Cut the square into bars, squares or diamonds. (The rounded edges can be chopped or crumbled and used as an ice cream topping.)
• Let the bars cool completely before removing from pan. Use a small spatula or butter knife to transfer them to paper towels to blot the buttery bottoms. Store in airtight container; they keep well for up to 1 week.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Beat butter, brown sugar, vanilla extract, and egg yolk in a large bowl; stir in flour and salt. Press dough into prepared baking dish.
• Bake in preheated oven until crust is light brown, 25 to 30 minutes.
• Immediately sprinkle chocolate chips over hot crust. Let stand until soft, about 5 minutes, and spread evenly; sprinkle with nuts. Cool pan on wire rack for 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a mixer, beat the butter, sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla. Gradually mix in flour, then salt, and continue beating until well blended, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary. Transfer batter to a 9 by 13-inch pan, and flatten out with a rubber spatula.
• Bake until slightly browned, about 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and immediately place squares of white chocolate on top, gently spreading with an off-set spatula or dull knife as they melt. Sprinkle with nuts and cranberries. Allow to set, about 15 minutes, and then cut into squares.

Steps:

• Adjust rack to the center of the oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large bowl, cream the butter with a mixer.
• Add the salt, vanilla, and sugar and beat well.
• On low speed, gradually add the flour, scraping the bowl with a rubber spatula and beating until the mixture holds together.
• Add the nuts and chocolate chips and mix well.
• Spread the dough (it will be stiff) into an unbuttered 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 1 inch jelly roll pan.
• With floured fingertips, press the dough firmly to make an even layer- it will be thin.
• Bake for 25 minutes, reversing the pan front to back once to insure even baking.
• The cake will be golden brown.
• Let cool in the pan for only a minute or so.
• With a small sharp knife, cut into bars.
• Let stand in the pan until cool.
• Transfer the cookies to paper towels to dry the bottoms.
• Wrap individually in wax paper or store in an airtight container.

Steps:

• Thoroughly cream together butter, sugar and vanilla. Add flour, mix well. Stir in chocolate pieces and walnuts.
• Press mixture into ungreased 15 1/2x10 1/2x1 inch jelly-roll pan.Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) 25 minutes or until browned. While warm, cut in bars or squares. Cool before removing from pan. Makes about 5 dozen.