Chocolate Toffee Butter Cookies

Chocolate Toffee Butter Cookies are good enough to have won the grand prize in our Christmas Cookies contest. These crisp, buttery cookies are flavored with brown sugar, pecans, and crunchy toffee bits. When we made Mary’s cookies, here’s what we discovered:

Test Kitchen Discoveries

• Prepare the cookie with the creaming method. Beat the brown sugar and softened butter together until light, smooth, and airy looking.
• Toast the pecans in a skillet over medium heat to intensify their flavor.
• Enrich the cookies with Heath toffee bits (the kind without chocolate). The toffee adds a contrasting crunchiness to the crisp cookie and boosts the flavor of the brown sugar.
• Melt chocolate chips with a little oil to make an icing that will drizzle easily and look glossy, but firm up quickly.