These Brown Sugar Toffee Bars are such an easy and delicious dessert recipe! Filled with toffee and brown sugar flavor, these chewy dessert bars are the perfect treat to eat with a cup of tea!
Toffee Brown Sugar Bars
Our kitchen remodel is nearly complete and my husband and I are still married, which is sort of a miracle.
I have told him 40 hundred times that he’s doing things incorrectly…and he has told me 40 hundred and ONE times that I have no experience in hanging cabinets so my pie-hole should stay shutty.
I have repeated the phrase, “I cannot wait until the crown molding is up” at least 7 times a day since the project has started, just so he doesn’t forget to put the crown molding up…
And he has repeated the phrase, “pie-hole shutty” every. single. time.
Ok, he has never said pie-hole shutty…but that’s basically what I can hear his eyes saying when he looks at me.
Also, my husband would never say shutty. Or pie-hole.
Anyway…I am starting to learn that when I repeat things over and over and over, for example, “can’t wait until the crown molding is up”, that is called “nagging”.
Which I like to refer to as “helpful reminders”.
We will never see eye to eye on that one.
And APPARENTLY husbands don’t like, “helpful reminders” when it comes to home improvement projects. Or ever, really.
So yeah, we’re still married.
But the crown molding isn’t up yet.
I’ll let you know.
In the meantime let’s do something major with brown sugar and toffee.
These bars are totally simple, but they have flavors that are in-your-face delicious.
Chewy, rich and buttery. They are perfect and cozy.
I love dark brown sugar, and that’s what I used. If you don’t love it, you can certainly sub in light brown sugar.
How to Make The Best Toffee Bars
Besides all the other usual suspects (eggs, butter, vanilla etc) you will need Toffee Bits. I used the kind that are covered in milk chocolate, but you don’t have to. Totally up to you!
Just mix up a quick batter and add your toffee…
See me there in the mixer bowl?
Yeah, I still wear black capri yoga pants. I can’t quit them.
Here’s what your bars will look like…
Can you even…? I mean…
Brown Sugar Toffee Bars
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 30 bars 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
These Brown Sugar Toffee Bars are such an easy and delicious dessert recipe! Filled with toffee and brown sugar flavor, these chewy dessert bars are the perfect treat to eat with a cup of tea!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar, packed
- 2 eggs
- 1 Tbsp vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1 (8 oz) bag of Toffee Bits (I used the Milk Chocolate coated “Heath” Toffee bits)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Spray a 9×13 pan with cooking spray.
- With your stand mixer, cream butter and brown sugar together, about 2 minutes on medium speed until combined and fluffy. Add in eggs and vanilla and continue mixing until incorporated.
- Turn mixer to low and add in baking soda, salt and flour, Mixing until just incorporated.
- Pour in your toffee bits and stir until evenly combined.
- Spread batter in prepared pan and bake for 20-25 minutes until golden and center is just set.
- Cool pan on wire rack and cut into squares when ready to serve.
Notes
You can use plain toffee bits or Milk Chocolate coated toffee bits in this recipe.
Also, baking times vary, don’t over bake.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 182
- Sugar: 15.4 g
- Sodium: 153.1 mg
- Fat: 8.9 g
- Carbohydrates: 23.8 g
- Protein: 1.8 g
- Cholesterol: 32.8 mg
Can you substitute other candy bars (like milky ways) for the toffee bits, or do you think those would melt too much?
I made these with white chocolate instead of toffee thursday – and my friend ate roughly half of them all by herself… oh, and sprinkling with raw liquorice powder before baking? good idea… 🙂 would you mind if I posted the recipe in metric scales on my blog? All credit to you of course 🙂
It would be such a nightmare to have the kitchen redone, as much as I would love to do it. These bars look great 🙂
These are soooo delicious! Used light brown sugar instead and I love them. Mine required quite a bit more baking time, but definitely worth the wait. Thanks for increasing my waistline, a little bit all the time, with your fantastic recipes!
Um whatttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt?!?!?! These look like heaven.
I had a wise friend that would tell her husband, “It’s okay, I’ll take care of it. I know you’re busy.” Seriously puts the fear in ’em. And the next thing ya know… task is finished.
So the apple toffee blondies are yum! Tomorrow, i’m making these. Can i use toothpick test to check doneness? Thanks!
yes, but insert the toothpick 2″ from the side, not in the center 🙂
oh my Fabulous!!
I love this recipe!
My mom’s tip for getting things done without nagging…
Start doing it yourself..WITH THE WRONG TOOLS!
To hang a picture (that she has “reminded” my dad about a zillion times), she gets out a screwdriver and the saw and says “this is all I should need to hang that picture, right?”
Instantly, my dad is out of the chair getting the correct tools and VOILA!! Picture hung!
I could probably tempt my husband to do anything with those bars though!