Wildcard round day two- Heath bit snowball cookies

I  wanted to use up a half bag of heath toffee baking bits and decided to put them in brown sugar snowball cookies. I thought that dough would work best.

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bags into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  I used 3 cups all purpose flour and 1 cup bread flour, but you can use all AP flour if you want.  These stay puffy bc of the bread flour and 1/2 cup crisco.

  • Ingredients list
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup crisco
  • 2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tbs heavy cream
  • 1 tbs vanilla
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup healh bits
  • 1 cup milk chocolate chips

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, crisco and brown sugar.  Add eggs, cream  and vanilla.  Blend in dry ingredients.  If dough seems dry, add another tbs or 2 of heavy cream.  Mix in heath bits and milk chocolate chips.  Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough and chill and hour in fridge.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees when ready to bake.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and stagger doughs on sheet.  Bake 11 to 12 minutes , no longer. 

Cool completely and store in covered container.

Frosted Heath Bar Blondies

Rob bought some mini heath bars and asked me to bake something with them,  so I opted for blondies with vanilla frosting.  There are crushed heath bars in the blondies and in the frosting.  Really, these use one of my many chocolate chip cookies recipes, but instead of chips, I put in heath bars. 

Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount.  And, preheat your oven before baking.

  • Blondies ingredients
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup crushed heath bars

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper and spray with baking spray.  Set aside.  In a bowl, cream butter, sugar and brown sugar.  Blend in eggs and vanilla.  Stir in dry ingredients.   Fold in heath bars.  Evenly spread into prepared pan.

Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.  Cool completely

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tbs milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • Crushed heath bars

Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and powdered sugar.  Add milk and vanilla.  Frost bars.  Sprinkle with crushed heath bars. 

Store in covered container.

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