I love toffee. LOVE it. This was my first time making it. It is pretty easy, but there is one very important thing – you have to have patience. I don’t always have a lot of this…
Which is why I have two batches of toffee to show you. Well, one batch of toffee, one batch of soft toffee.
First batch, bubbling away!
This was about the time I figured it was complete. I took it off the heat and poured it onto my silpat, stuck in in the fridge. It tastes very good:
I wanted crunchy toffee. Round two, I found my patience:
butter toffee
1 cup earth balance
1 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons vanilla
Melt the butter in tall saucepan, add sugar. Stir constantly as sugar dissolves and mixture bubbles up. (Here is where that patience comes in)… After a few minutes, the mixture will thicken and become smooth and glossy.
Pour onto a silpat or parchment sheet on a cookie pan, place in refrigerator.
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Another thing I love? Chocolate chip cookies. Sometimes, I like the cookie part, without the chocolate chips. A blondie cookie. They’re good.
A gooey blondie sounded better, though, especially with butter toffee chunks.
I really need to just stop saying how surprised I am to make something that is both gluten free and vegan, and it tastes fabulous. 
These? Taste fabulous.
butter toffee blondies
3/4 cup earth balance
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg (Ener-G replacer)
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups gluten free flour (Bob’s Red Mill ap)
1 teaspoon baking powder
butter toffee!
Cream together butter + sugar + vanilla, add egg. Add flour + baking powder, mix. Fold in butter toffee pieces.
Bake at 350 for 35 minutes.
What is your favorite cookie?
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Ooh. These look great. My all-time favorite cookies – it’s a tie between walnut chocolate chip and Italian lemon cookies.
oh, yes! lemon cookies are fabulous too!
blondies are my favorite, just below oatmeal raisin and snickerdoodles. But I think the toffee blondies here just might take an up on that!!
yep, I think I cannot have a blondie without toffee now…
I can basically only eat raisins if they are in an oatmeal cookie.
It seems delicious even to me that I don’t like toffees. They are too sweet for may taste!
My favorite cookies… well, this is a good question. I don’t know exactly because there are too many good cookies and from many traditions… Maybe the Italian almond cookies and the chocolate cookies are my favorite(put chocolate into something and make me happy!!!) but I’m not sure. You know, this is a good idea: one of my future recipes will be a cookie one so I can try to determine my taste about cookies! (always a good excuse to eat of course)
oh, good ! I would love to see a cookie recipe on your blog!!
I love the italian almond cookies too!
Oh my!….Hubby and I love blondies…are fav! Thank you for the recipe! Hugs!
aren’t blondies SO good?
hugs to you, Pam !!
Um, yum. I’ve never had a blondie. I’m not a chocolate fan so I don’t care for brownies but have a sneaking suspicion I’d love blondies. I think I could go for one right now actually
oh, Heather… you need to make these. or give me your address.
wow these do sound so delicious! i’ve been wondering, what is Earth Balance???
Hi Anna! Earth Balance is a vegan butter substitute… and the one I use is soy free also. I love it !
Oh.My! Must.make.immediately!
oh, yes, you should !!
and a hint? I wish I would have doubled the batch… 
I’m not a huge toffee fan, but these look delicious!!!
My favorite cookie is the peanut butter cookie with the kiss in the middle. I love them!
Hi Holly !! I love those pb / kiss cookies too… totally remind me of childhood.
I’ve never made toffee either, but I have zero patience, so this might not be an idea recipe for me
It looks really good though!
I hear ya on the patience thing. I am also stubborn though, so I needed to have a success !!
Oh YUM! These look amazing
I love it when gf baking works, there have been many times when it just hasn’t been ‘quite right’ in my kitchen. I’m definitely going to try the blondies very soon.
Oh, Christa, do I know what you mean!! It has been years of trial and error… many error.
Wow, these look incredible!
Thank You !! They kinda were, if I can say so.
Thanks for reading, Devon!
butter toffee blondies?? my mouth is literally watering. so delicious.
I know, I was so excited. I have been thinking of these for a bit…
I have to say that my all time favorite are my moms oatmeal cookies. Her key? Keeping them moist by putting a piece of bread in the tin. She still sends me some.
I think ANY cookie our mom makes is good, right??
That’s a great trick with the bread! Thanks for reading, Scott!
yum! As a kid who didn’t like chocolate, I always went for sugar cookies or snicker-doodles. Now, I’d likely grab a chocolate chip. I think oatmeal chocolate chip would be my favorite.
Dorry, I am so glad you got over your childhood aversion to chocolate, for your sake !!
oatmeal chocolate chip! no. ginger w/real crystallized ginger! no. peanut butter chocolate chip! this is like sophie’s choice. i give up. but, mmmm, those blondies look TDF…
HA !! I love it, Hilary ! totally laughed out loud… and YUM, ginger cookies sound GOOD…
This looks very good! I love chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, yes I love my chocolate.
I do too !! it’s funny I made these, because I have REALLY been craving chocolate lately… I don’t think I’ll last the weekend without baking something chocolate!
My all time favorite has to be the chocolate chip, but if I’m feeling a little sinful – I eat the triple chocolate cookie – chocolate cookie with chocolate chips and white chocolate chips.
Right now my favorite could be the butter toffee blondies if you ship some over!
hee hee ! I wish I knew that before we almost ate them all….
next time !
Yum…I love toffee!! Especially in blondies, that way chocolate doesn’t hide the toffee goodness. My favorite cookie is probably macadamia nut & white chocolate.
while I can appreciate that combination for a cookie, I overdosed on macadamias when I was 8 years old in Hawaii… have not had one since!
OK – you need to try this Heath Bar recipe! This is very close to what you’ve concocted:)
awesome… I want to, gimme gimme ! !
be still my heart! the ingredients are being put on my shopping list right NOW! thank you for sharing!
oh good! please let me know how they turn out… ENJOY !!
Wow! Can you lend me your patience please, Seymour?
I tried to make cinder toffe twice last week for Bonfire Night, and both times it failed! (the first time took forever and then tasted burnt, the second batch was better but not right, and still tasted burnt!).
My favourite cookie would have to be chocolate chip (being British, and an oatmeal-raisin hater, that’s the only cookie I like!).
I think it’s a fine line of patience and timing… I took it off right as it turned slightly darker and was completely smooth…
your chocolate chip cookies today look perfect!
Yep, toffee is definitely insulin worthy in my book!
These are my favorite cookies – I finally got the right balance of chew on these snickerdoodles!
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I love snickerdoodles… those look good, I love the stack !!
Cool beans! I’ve never made blondies, but lately I’ve been wanting to. I’m going to make non-vegan, non-toffee blondies and call them inspired by you (ish). :p
YAY !! I can’t wait to see them… blondies are SO good. I may have had one with breakfast…
Those look so amazing!!!
I love snickerdoodle cookies but now you’ve got me seriously craving toffee.
mmm… toffee is my FAVORITE. I’ve already made another batch for a friend
butter toffee blondies might be my 3 favourite words.
as crazy as it sounds, i’m not much into cookies. i actually can’t remember the last one i had. (i know, sad.)
Angela, I completely understand… I am really the same way – with all the baking I do, I really do not have much of a sweet tooth… but these… only lasted ONE DAY.
Looks good! My favorite cookie is snickerdoodle. I haven’t had them in forever, but I think they just made my Christmas cookie list.
I love snickerdoodles too ! the name has always been weird to me, but GOOD COOKIE !
I think you and I would be good friends.
Or enemies. Because we’d be fighting over the last of the toffee…
But then friends again when we decide to make more…
YES !! I LOVE this theory !!
it is funny – I am NOT kidding – as I type this?? Jason ate the last one. Yep. without asking. Just did it. We would share, right ?? 
Wowzers! These look like they would be worth the effort.
they really are !! and if you don’t want to make your own toffee, even easier!!
Joey makes a MEAN ginger cookie. It is to die for. Besides that, anything with peanut butter
Mmm… ginger is one of my favorites… maybe Joey and I can have a baking exchange??
I make a GREAT peanut butter cookie… 
Oh my taste buds. Those look ah-mazing!! Must make soon!!
Thanks Paige !! Let me know if you make them… you’ll LOVE them !!
These look delicious! And I don’t even care for toffee that much. I do like blondies, though.
I almost picked up some Ener-G replacer tonight. I’ve never used it, but always wish for it. Do you think it works much better than a flax egg?
I think my favorite cookies are chocolate chip peanut butter. I used to make this one recipe all the time, and everybody always loved it. But then I stopped using dairy in my baking and I have yet to try and veganize it. I need to do it asap!
Candice, the egg replacer is easier to me than flax… unless you have it for other things.. I haven’t always had flax to use, and this is easy… the box lasts a LONG TIME and it is easy!
you are not the first person who has said they don’t really care for toffee but these look good !
that said, I need to bake something chocolate SOON !!
I am drooling over here!! These look amazing!
Did you know they have soy free earth balance now? omg, I have never ever purchased the regular one before because of the soy…but I saw the soy free the other day and loaded up!
xxoo
PS. It was Hudson’s 3rd birthday today….we spoiled him
Snuggles to Basil!
YES that is the one I use too !!! love it.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETIE HUDSON !! <3
Oh toffee tastic!
I want toffee and I want toffee blondies!
Hi Jeni Treehugger !! (love it!) thanks for reading! the toffee is pretty easy to make – almost instant gratification, much better than waiting for a vegan to be shipped !
Yum! These look amazing. I love toffee, but I’ve never tried to make it for myself! I might have to give it a go
you should!! it’s really pretty easy… I’ve already made another batch for someone else!
I’m visiting via Dinner at Christina’s Friday Firsts. This is a wonderful, mouthwatering post. I love toffee and I’m so glad you have shared your delicious recipes!
Hello April!! Thank you for visiting! I love toffee also, and this was pretty easy… have you made your own before?
I definitely hear ya on the patience part! I made a few batches of my pumpkin seed brittle and one was more chewy than crisp b/c I was sick of waiting for it to reach temp! But when you DO calm down and wait for it – so worth it!!
I’ve never made blondies – these look yummy! Thanks for linking them to Friday Firsts!
yes! once again, thank you for HAVING me!
Looks amazing. I’ve never had a blondie either!!
My first attempt at toffee was a disaster because-as you said- I needed (and lacked)patience. Once I finally let the mix carmelize, it was heavenly! And now my go-to gift for home-made treats.
candy making is very precise, i.e. butter sugar boiling pot = need to watch it!
and i love that this is vegan and GF…omg i love love love toffee. And cookies/blondies.
perfect recipe!
love your blog, thank you!
thank YOU, Janet!!
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