Minnesota's Favorite Cookies

Submitted by jb41848

"I found this recipe on Allrecipes.com. It is a copy cat of the Minnesota Munchers that won Taste of Homes cookie contest. These are so incredibly good, there is no way you can eat just 1."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 48 cookies

ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 1⁄2 cups brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk chocolate chips
• 1⁄2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 2⁄3 cup English toffee bits
• 1 cup chopped pecans

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees (175 degrees C).
2. Grease cookie sheets.
3. In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar.
4. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla.
5. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture.
6. Stir in the milk chocolate chips, and semi-sweet chocolate chips, toffee bits and pecans.
7. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto the greased cookie sheets.
8. Bake 10-12 minutes in the preheated oven.
9. Allow to cool on the baking sheet before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

Reviews

[HEP MEP]

I made these this morning after seeing that thread about your most recently posted recipes. Awesome! Just had one, and I know they're going to be gone FAST, once the family gets home. These will be part of my (very)small collection of cookies - anybody who knows me knows I do not bake much. Thanks - everyone try these!

 

[Luby Luby Luby]

You are right - they are incredibly good and you can't eat just one. Slap, Slap, BTW, that's my left hand slapping my right hand away from them. I'll have to bring them to the office because I can't trust myself with them in the house.

 

[Colleen Sr.]

I was fortunate enough to burn a dozen of these....they are now mine, all mine! Even burned, they are fabulous! Will make them again and again.

 

[TexasDK]

So glad I tried this recipe...they were incredible!!! The only change I made to the recipe was the way I baked the dough. After lining the cookie sheet with parchment paper I spread the dough over the entire baking pan as if making one large cookie. After baking I allowed the cookie to cool a few minutes and then used a 4" heart shaped cookie cutter to shape each cookie. After cooling for another 5 minutes I removed each heart shaped cookie to a cooling rack. When cool, I decorated each heart and gave them out on Valentines Day. This recipe has made it into our "Family Favorites" recipe book!! Thanks!

 

[Kit_Kat]

These are very good cookies and after a few tweaks I was able to get them to where we like them. (I always make a recipe as written the first time and that is what I rate on. I have heard so much about this recipe over the years being a long time ToH reader that was not sure what to expect.) On the second go round I doubled the batch and added 1 cup of shortening to the one cup of butter and doubled the rest of the ingredients.The shortening created a chewy cookie which is more to my families liking. Additionally I made the cookies larger (about 1.5 TBL of dough by scoop) and let them bake exactly 13 minutes in my 350 oven. They finished on the cookie sheets for 5 additional minutes and then were removed to wire racks to cook completely. They were amazing. Thanks for sharing.