If you are looking for an easy and chewy Heath Bar cookie recipe you have come to right place. These tasty cookies have that perfect balance of chewy and crispy. The simplicity of this recipe also makes it appealing.
Easy and Chewy Heath Bar Cookie Recipe
Ingredients Needed
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup Heath Bar bits
– These can be bits of Heath Bar crushed up or you can purchase the bags of Bits O’Brickle (my favorite and pictured here) or Milk Chocolate Toffee Bits, both made by Heath. - 1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
– These can be bits of Heath Bar crushed up or you can purchase the bags of 
(my favorite and pictured here) or 
, both made by Heath.
How to Make Easy and Chewy Heath Bar Cookie Recipe
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large bowl, beat butter, sugars, vanilla and eggs with mixer on medium speed or with spoon until light and fluffy.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- Mix in chocolate chips and Heath bits.
- Measure dough using a medium cookie scoop (about 1.5 tablespoons) or roll into a ball.
- On cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat, place dough balls 2 inches apart.
- Bake in your oven or cooker (as they liked to call it when I lived in England) 11 to 13 minutes or until light brown (centers will be soft).
- Cool 10 minutes on pan, and then remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.
(about 1.5 tablespoons) or roll into a ball.It doesn’t take a crazy amount of time or effort to make your house have the flavors and scents of delicious homemade cookies. For me, baking is one part that can make a home feel homey.
How did this Easy and Chewy Heath Bar Cookie Recipe Come to Be?
When I was grocery shopping, I noticed a product I hadn’t seen before – Heath Bar Bits O’Brickle Toffee Bits.
They also have Heath Milk Chocolate Toffee Bits
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I have used Heath Bars for different recipes before. Love them. From my Better Than Anything Chocolate Trifle to my Heath Bar Sheet Cookies, These little toffee and chocolate nuggets add the perfect texture to delicious desserts.
What is wonderful about this recipe, is that the toffee morsels are baked into the cookies to add the perfect amount of sweet, slight crunch to a bite. Add in a little bit of chocolate chips to the mix, and you have the perfect cookie.
When I saw these in the store I thought I could surely come up with a recipe that would incorporate this find, so I purchased them.
I now have also used them for the top of my Famous Chocolate Refrigerator Roll.
Knowing both the texture and flavor of the toffee bits, I figured they would be really good in cookies too. I have two great chocolate chip cookie recipes. The Rolo stuffed chocolate chip cookies that we love came to mind, and I think the chewy and crispy texture is perfect for the addition of a Heath Bar.
The only thing I really changed in the recipe was eliminating the Rolos, cutting the chocolate chips in half and adding a cup of Heath bars.
We started with a great base and added Heath bar pieces. How could it go wrong? They were great.
These are definitely a go to cookie recipe for us now. I think they will become that crave-able, must-make cookie recipe for you too!
Easy and Chewy Heath Bar Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients Needed
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup Heath Bar bits
- 1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
Instructions
How to Make Easy and Chewy Heath Bar Cookie Recipe
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large bowl, beat butter, sugars, vanilla and eggs with mixer on medium speed or with spoon until light and fluffy.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- Combine dry ingredients to wet ingredients and combine completely.
- Mix in chocolate chips and Heath bits.
- Measure dough using a medium cookie scoop (about 1.5 tablespoons) or roll into a ball.
- On cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat, place dough balls 2 inches apart.
- Bake in your oven or cooker (as they liked to call it when I lived in England) 11 to 13 minutes or until light brown (centers will be soft).
- Cool 10 minutes on pan, and then remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.
* Note: This recipe and post were originally created and written in 2013. Although the recipe remains the same (why change a good thing?), the post has been updated with new formatting and pictures.
Baking with Kids
As always, I want to encourage you to bake with your kids. It has been 5 years now since these sweet photos of my Kenzie were taken. She is now capable of baking on her own.
Being in the kitchen with kids not only promotes family bonding, but it also teaches important life skills.
Baking with kids provides an opportunity for teaching math, fine motor skills, and reading. Kids at a very young age can dump and pour. Later they learn to start measuring and even experimenting on their own.
My kids, now age 8, 9 and 11, all beg to make cookies together. Is it the dough they get to sample along the way or the family time? Who knows. I know both those things are meaningful to me as well.
Want More Recipes that Use Heath Bar Bits?
Better Than Anything Chocolate Trifle
What is a Heath Bar?
A Heath Bar hass a hard toffee (made from sugar and butter) and almond brittle on the inside and is covered with a layer of milk chocolate.
According to Wikipedia, the Heath bar was originally “marketed by L. S. Heath beginning in 1914, subsequently by Leaf, Inc.,and since 1996 by Hershey…It is similar to Hershey’s Skor bar and Mondelēz’s Daim bar. The Heath bar ranked 56th nationally in the US and 110th on the US East Coast in a 1987 popularity survey, and has become a popular add-in ingredient to ice cream, cookies and other confections.” For the full history, read more here.
What is the difference between a Heath Bar and a Skor Bar?
These two candy bars are both made by Hershey’s and are quite similar. The Skor bar is noted as being thinner, while the Heath Bar is said to have a nuttier flavor.
The Heath bar says it is a “English Toffee Bar.” The Skor Bar claims to be “a crisp butter toffee,” and some note it has a more buttery flavor.
If you love reading forums with people duking out their opinions, you will find a full discussion of the two bars here.
Heath Bits O’Brickle – This bag of toffee bits is made from sugar, vegetable oil, dairy butter, almonds, salt & lecithin.
Heath Milk Chocolate Toffee Bits – This bag of toffee bits has the same ingredients as the Bits O’ Brickle, but it also has the milk chocolate incorporated into the bag.
Both of the products above make it easier to use for baking because the crush up work is done for you. Yay, Heath!
I hope your friends and family enjoy these cookies as much as we do. The texture is spot on if you love a perfect balance of chewy and crispy. The flavors are there too – not too sweet, not too chocolatey – just yummy.
