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Trader Joe's Tuesday: Toffee Oat Cookies
Amy Faries • Mar 03, 2020
Oh so flat, yet still so tasty
Big fail
This Trader Joe's Tuesday was a hilarious fail! Nothing to do with the recipe but all to do with my horrible attempt at multitasking. Monday was an incredibly busy day for me. It was my sweet mothers birthday-Happy Birthday Holl Doll, her annual Christmas party for the Sherrifs office, and a day full of baking. I decided to make a hot chocolate cake, boston creme cupcakes, shortbread cookies, molasses cookies, and toffee oat cookies all for her Christmas party. Fortunately, I did semi prep the night before by making the entire cake, cupcakes, molasses cookies and ganache for the cupcakes. So for Monday I needed to make the filling for the cupcakes/assemble them, make the icing for the molasses cookies, make the toffee oat cookies, and make and decorate the shortbread cookies. Sounds easy right? (Insert eye-roll here) I started my morning off by taking the butter out for my shortbread cookies and toffee oat cookies to soften. Meanwhile I made my easy boston creme filling (recipe is up on the blog) and filled the cupcakes. Fresh into multitasking mode I made my first mistake. I used the butter meant for my shortbread cookies for my toffee oat cookie mix from Trader Joe's. Meaning I used 14 TBS of butter as opposed to 4 TBS...you can see where this story is going. I only figured this out when my timer went off and I opened the oven door only to discover the flattest crispiest cookies I have ever seen. A wave of realization swept over me as I looked from my cookies to the counter where my 4 TBS of butter that was actually meant for the toffee oat cookies was sitting. I proceeded to laugh too hard then I hear a little laugh from the living room that slowly made its way into the kitchen and see Lily laughing simply because I'm laughing. We both proceeded to giggle at each other simply because the other was giggling and it was too cute and too hilarious all wrapped into one.
Review
Let me tell you something these cookies were still absolutely delicious even though they don't look lovely. I took them to my mother's Christmas party still and they dissapeared in a flash. The oats gave the cookies a lovely texture whereas the toffee added a beautiful flavor and chew in the center. The amount of compliments I received on these "mess up" cookies was amazing. The added butter helped to flatten these cookies which gave them a texture similar to a pizelle. I would love to make these again and this time add the right amount of butter.
Stack and Play
One of the many wonderful things about this cookie mix is that it comes in a stack-able tin filled with 3 different mixes of cookies! After you're done with all the cookies the containers make great storage containers for kids items. You can store anything from crayons, crafting supplies, or even small dolls!
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