Toffee Chip Cookies

It was a rare Saturday that I worked at the library and I just had to take them some goodies.  On Thursday, I perused my cookie cookbook to find a cookie that I hadn't made yet and got very inspired to make toffee chip cookies.  They are a basic cookie with chocolate chips and toffee chips in them.  The kicker is that there is a recipe for the homemade toffee.  At about 7pm I embarked on the great toffee making expedition.  An hour later, I poured the toffee into the pan and hoped for the best.  And my time paid off because I did get the best.  Yum.  The cookies were pretty good too.  Here is the long pictorial process.

Stirring the ingredients to make the toffee

The hardened toffee

Breaking up the toffee.  Some of it was easier to break with a knife and hammer.

You have to small bits for the cookies.  My bits weren't even small enough, but that's all I could manage.

Here's what the dough looks like.  I thought it was interesting.  

Here's what they looked like right out of the oven.  See how the toffee melted and oozed out?  Well, I took my handy-dandy spatula and shoved the cookies into a rounder shape.  

Here's the result.  I think they look pretty good.  

A close up.  The toffee hardened again and the cookies are a little crunchy, but toffee is crunchy, so that's okay.  

I took some of the cookies to our apartment office and they enjoyed them.  Here they are being displayed on a plate.  Yummy.  One consumer said that they were the best cookies I have ever brought to the workplace and that's saying something since I've been bringing cookies there for six years!