Please welcome my guest poster. Lynn is a stay at home, homeschooling mom to three. She loves to cook and try all kinds of recipes. You can follow her adventures in the kitchen at Lynn’s Kitchen Adventures.

My family loves cookies, and I am glad because cookies are one of my favorite things to bake. I love trying new cookie recipes because I am always looking for a better cookie. I also like tweaking my favorite recipes to come up with new versions.

One of the recipes that I tweaked was my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. I wanted to try a cookie that had chocolate and toffee in it, because I love that combination. I tried a few things, and I finally came up with a really good version of a Chocolate Toffee Pecan Cookie.

These cookies are so good. I sent a plate full of them to work with my husband and everyone loved them. I also served them to friends, and they all liked them. I had trouble not eating them, they are so good. I entered these cookies in the Bass Pecan recipe contest, and they won the grand prize of $1,000.  I love these cookies. If you like chocolate and toffee, give these a try.

These cookies are large cookies. They are made to be like a cookie you would buy in a coffee shop or bakery. I have tried making them smaller, but it changes the texture. You want these large.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 c. plus 2 TB flour
• ½ tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. salt
• 12 TB butter melted
• 1 c. brown sugar
• ½ c. sugar
• 1 egg, plus 1 egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 4 ounce English toffee bits
• 3/4 cup chopped pecans, very finely chopped

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 325. In a bowl, mix dry ingredient. In mixing bowl, combine butter and sugars until well blended. Add egg, yolk, and vanilla. Batter will appear slightly greasy. Add dry ingredients, until blended. Add chocolate chips, pecans, and toffee pieces. Scoop in ¼ c. balls onto cookie sheet. I use an ice cream scoop. Place 6 on each cookie sheet. You should only place 6 per sheet because these are large cookies and they spread out. Bake for 15 minutes.

I only label a post food porn when it is so utterly delicious that it makes my eyes roll into the back of my head and this English Toffee does just that!  I’m serious folks and had it not been for 5 of us in the family eating it in about 3 seconds, I would have a picture of me devouring it to prove it’s worthiness of the title.

Now I’ve had toffee in the past, hard-plain toffee that is okay but this?…….this is exceptional.  Not only is the toffee not near as hard as what you would buy in the store but it’s surrounded by more pieces of heaven like milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or white satin which was the one that made my toes curl and truly are life’s essential indulgence for this gal!

You want to know the “in-a-nutshell” version of how this toffee came about?  This gal, a regular gal like me, was making this in her home as a way to create gifts for family and friends.  She was encouraged to sell her toffee on the Internet and well, the rest is history.  Just goes to show you that great things can happen if you set your mind.

Did you think I would tease you and not give you a way to WIN IT?  HA! Thanks to the generous folks at English Toffee Anytime, there will be 7 total winners in this tasty giveaway!

WHAT YOU WIN

• *1st prize – one pound box of toffee, their choice of flavor (milk, dark or white)
• *2nd prize – half pound box of toffee, their choice of flavor (milk, dark or white)
• *3rd prizes – 5 third prizes of the Triple Taste-The-Toffee sampler

I don’t know about you but 3rd place to me won’t be so bad eh?

HOW TO ENTER

Main Entry-- Visit English Toffee Anytime, come back here leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite flavor that you would like to try AND one other fact from the website.  This is just so I know that you actually visited this fine sponsor;) Visiting a sponsor is the least we can do for such wonderful prizes right?

Earn additional entries by completely the following.  Each one earns you one entry.

• Twitter this giveaway by copying and pasting the paragraph here

Enter to win one of life’s essential indulgences aka Food Porn from @ACowboysWife  http://tinyurl.com/6u3hrd #toffee

• Stumble this giveaway leaving me your username
• Blog it with a link back to this giveaway

PLEASE LEAVE EACH ENTRY YOU DO IN A SEPARATE COMMENT!

If you can’t stand it and have $3 bucks, you can actually try the English Toffee sampler!!  The $3 covers shipping and the sampler is free:) Gift certificates are offered as well!

ONE MORE THING: If you decide you want to make a purchase, contact English Toffee Anytime and tell them you entered my giveaway (you must enter my giveaway of course;) and they will give you a discount coupon code to use on that purchase!!

Giveaway ends on January 10th, is only open to the US (sorry) and as always, read the “fine print“.