Toasted Coconut & Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies. This is one of my favorite cookie recipes, because it's so quick and easy and delicious!

Toasted Coconut & Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Toasted coconut, crunchy toffee, and chocolate chips enveloped in a sweet, buttery cookie with golden crisp edges and soft chewy middles. What’s not to love??

Toasted Coconut & Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies. This is one of my favorite cookie recipes, because it's so quick and easy and delicious!

About 6 years ago, I decided to have a bake sale in conjunction with a yard sale we were having. I emailed all my favorite bloggers at the time and asked them to send me their top bake sale recipe. My plan was to “market” my bake sale as a “blogger bake sale,” and have all the recipes submitted by my friends made up and ready to sell.

Several people saw my signs and excitedly showed up, hoping to meet really cool food bloggers with samples of their recipes… ????.

And instead, they found me (just me) with a table of baked goods I had clumsily made in our little apartment kitchen. Mind you, this was back when I used margarine instead of butter ????– so there was still quite a bit of development in my baking abilities yet to occur.

Woops.

Toasted Coconut & Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies. This is one of my favorite cookie recipes, because it's so quick and easy and delicious!

Annnnnnyway. Embarrassing memories aside– I only bring it up, because it was that bake sale that landed me with this cookie recipe. A friend of mine gave me the recipe, and I fell instantly in love with it!

Albeit, I’ve tweaked it a little bit to use my favorite Quick & Easy CCC as the cookie base instead of her original recipe. But it’s the same concept– toasted coconut, toffee bits, and chocolate chips. So, so good!

I was pleasantly surprised at the texture of these cookies. The toffee, of course, lend a buttery crunch to each bite. But, to me, the real star of the show is the toasted coconut! Besides being deliciously fragrant and tasty, the coconut adds another layer of crispy texture to the cookies.

Toasted Coconut & Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies. This is one of my favorite cookie recipes, because it's so quick and easy and delicious!

Toasted Coconut & Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies. This is one of my favorite cookie recipes, because it's so quick and easy and delicious!

I absolutely adore these cookies. Crisp, buttery, golden edges. Crunchy, crispy toffee and coconut mixed with warm, melty chocolate in every bite. Believe me, you are going to fall head over heels for this recipe too!

PS- did I mention this is a spin-off of my Quick & Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies?? That means NO mixer, NO chilling, and NO spreading! Seriously, best. recipe. everrrrrrrrr.

Thick and chewy snickerdoodles are so easy to make from scratch! These are warm and fresh from the oven in less than 25 minutes.

Thick and Chewy Snickerdoodles Recipe

Thick and chewy snickerdoodles are so easy to make from scratch! These are warm and fresh from the oven in less than 25 minutes.

Thick and chewy snickerdoodles are so easy to make from scratch! These are warm and fresh from the oven in less than 25 minutes.

These are the softest, dreamiest, buttery, pillowy snickerdoodles on the planet.

Have I tried all the snickerdoodles on the planet? Well, no. But it’s really hard to imagine that there are any out there better than these.

 

Thick and chewy snickerdoodles are so easy to make from scratch! These are warm and fresh from the oven in less than 25 minutes.

I use two very special ingredients to make these so good.

It’s a little out of the common way in a cookie recipe, but this first special ingredient makes a big difference: egg yolks. ONLY egg yolks. THREE egg yolks, to be precise. ????

I really don’t like cake-y snickerdoodles. I feel like they dry out super fast, which makes them good for only the day of. Using three egg yolks and none of the whites solves this problem. Egg yolks add moisturizing fats and emulsify the dough. They make baked goods fudgier, while egg whites tend to make them cake-y.

I wanted each bite of these cookies to be moist, and soft, and “fudgy,” even days later. So in went the egg yolks! (Save the whites for this Healthy Honey Whole Wheat Banana Bread. SO GOOD!)

Thick and chewy snickerdoodles are so easy to make from scratch! These are warm and fresh from the oven in less than 25 minutes.

The second super star ingredient is…. cream of tartar!

No big surprise there. Most people already know that a fabulous snickerdoodle MUST have cream of tartar. Can you substitute baking powder? Sure. But it won’t be quite the same. Cream of tartar gives these cookies that signature tangy flavor that all great snickerdoodles have.

Thick and chewy snickerdoodles are so easy to make from scratch! These are warm and fresh from the oven in less than 25 minutes.

Side note… see all those cracks around the edges? Don’t worry, that won’t happen to yours. My family kept eating the cookies from the first two batches as they came out of the oven– before I had a chance to photograph them! So the batch you see pictured was made from dough that had been refrigerated for over 24 hours. I forgot to leave them on the counter to thaw before baking, so I smashed them down a bit with a glass before sticking them in the oven (that’s where the cracks came from).

Enjoy!!!

Chewy, crispy, buttery oatmeal cookies on the outside and delicious dark chocolate on the inside!

Chocolate Florentine Cookies Recipe

Chewy, crispy, buttery oatmeal cookies on the outside and delicious dark chocolate on the inside!

Chewy, crispy, buttery oatmeal cookies on the outside and delicious dark chocolate on the inside!

Today’s recipe is from waaaaaaaaaaay back in the archives. In fact, I think I remember this being the first recipe I ever posted. I had been blogging for several months by then, but I wasn’t posting recipes up until that point because I was still trying to sell my baked goods via my blog.

I am SO glad I gave up on that dream! Whew!

I get asked all the time “why don’t you just start a bakery?”

Oh, let me count the reasons!! Hm, how about the ridiculous hours, startup costs, needing an actual storefront, either paying employees or burning myself out, having to work out of the house, customer service, and about 8 billion other really valid reasons. But really, it comes down to this… why on earth would I trade the sweetest at-home job on the planet for all that other stuff? And, in all probability, probably make less money doing it!

Yeah, no thank you. I definitely dodged a bullet when I jumped that ship and discovered blogging! And I guess I have to give this recipe some credit for that decision ????. So here you have it– the cookie recipe that employed me as a blogger for the first time!

Chewy, crispy, buttery oatmeal cookies on the outside and delicious dark chocolate on the inside!

Ok. So maybe some of you don’t know what a florentine cookie is (I totally didn’t the very first time I stumbled across this recipe, so don’t feel bad), so let’s start with that.

Today’s (American) Florentine cookie has actually drastically evolved from the original European Florentine biscuit, which was made of dried fruit and nuts with a chocolate drizzle. As you’ll see, my recipe uses NO dried fruit and only a handful of chopped almonds to add some crunchy texture. Instead, it’s mostly made up of melted butter, sugar, and oats.

Fortunately, today’s Florentines do still include the chocolate ????. But we’re sandwiching it in between TWO cookies instead of drizzling it on top, because… well, more cookie and more chocolate. Duh.

All versions of this cookie are meant to be thin and lacy with crispy edges and a slightly chewy center. Which is why it’s really important to follow the directions in the recipe exactly and use MELTED butter, and then furthermore, to add the other ingredients to the butter while still over low heat instead of adding the butter to the other ingredients in a separate bowl.

It’s counterintuitive if you do much cookie baking, but keeping the butter warm all the way up until baking will ensure that the cookies spread thin instead of puffing up in the middle like a normal cookie would.

Plus– less dishes ????.

Chewy, crispy, buttery oatmeal cookies on the outside and delicious dark chocolate on the inside!

These cookies are so, so yummy. Especially if you’re a texture freak like me!! The chewy centers, crispy edges, crunchy almonds, and chocolate in the center all come together to create like the most perfect cookie sandwich experience ever. EVER!

Be sure to give me a tag on Instagram if you make these so I can see! And enjoy ????.

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Scotchies

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Scotchies Recipe

Ultra-chewy simple oatmeal cookie recipe loaded with chocolate chips and butterscotch chips. Quick and easy cookies!

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Scotchies

Those that know me well know that I am ALL ABOUT a good chocolate chip cookie. And I’m frequently asked which is my favorite recipe.

It’s like having to choose a favorite child! I really can’t do it. There are several that I love for different reasons. The same cookie doesn’t always work for every mood, season, and occasion. Just like a good pair of shoes, you have to find a cookie that goes just right with what’s going on in your life.

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Scotchies

For example… I love these Coconut Oil Chocolate Chip Cookies a lot right now, because I can make them dairy free if I use DF chocolate chips. These are probably my favorite standard, basic chocolate chip cookie recipe. But that recipe calls for shortening. If I’m in the mood for an all butter recipe, I’ll make this one.

More often than not this year, I’ve been in the mood for a good, hearty oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. This one is my favorite oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. The 1 1/2 cups of chopped walnuts in that one make it SUPER chunky and amazing for a texture lover like me. But I don’t always have walnuts on hand, and I don’t always feel like putting in the work that recipe takes. So my go-to basic oatmeal chocolate chip recipe is this one. And it’s best made with M&Ms or Reese’s Pieces 🙂

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Scotchies

This recipe is a variation of that last one. It’s simple, straight forward, and holds up to a wide variety of mix-ins.

At first, I thought I was going to make these into Oatmeal Scotchies. I’m obsessed with butterscotch, and it feels like such a cozy, Fall flavor. But then I realized that I just couldn’t leave out the chocolate.

So in went the chocolate chips 🙂

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Scotchies

I hope you love this recipe for Oatmeal Scotchies! And if you want to change it up a little bit, here are some other fun mix-ins you could use instead of chocolate chips that would pair really well with butterscotch:

  • Reese’s Pieces or M&Ms
  • Peanut Butter Chips (mmmm, PB + Butterscotch = bliss)
  • Pretzels (or chocolate covered pretzels!)
  • Butterscotch pudding mix
  • Walnuts
  • Caramel filled chocolate candy (like Rolos or Ghirardelli squares)

Be creative! And be sure to tag me @somethingswanky on Instagram if you make these. Let me know what you added in 🙂