Toffee Fudge and Oat Cookie Bars filled with mini chunks of toffee fudge and porridge oats. With a dusting of Demerara sugar.
As cookie bar recipes go this is another easy one to follow. It's adapted from my recipe for Cherry, Oat and White Chocolate Cookie Bars. The mini Toffee chunks and the soft brown sugar give them a really nice toffee flavour, try to avoid using white sugar if you can. It's fine to use caster sugar, it's just that you reduce the toffee flavour.
How to make these Toffee Fudge Cookie Bars
Step 1
Preheat oven to 170c fan. Grease and line a 10.5 inch (27cm) x 7 inch (17.5cm) x 1 inch tray bake tin or similar with baking parchment or greaseproof paper. Please note. If you use a tin with a different size, the baking times may differ.
Step 2
Using an electric mixer, beat together the butter and sugar until soft, light and fluffy. This will only take a couple of mins.
Step 3
Sift in the flour and baking powder. Add the Vanilla Extract, oats and mini Toffee Fudge chunks. Mix together until well combined and forms a firm dough. Do not overbeat.
Step 4
Press the dough evenly into the prepared baking pan.
Step 5
Bake in the oven for 30 mins or until lightly golden. Testing the centre of the bake with a skewer until it comes out clean. Take out of the oven and dust with demerara sugar.
Leave in the tin to cool for about 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely before slicing into bars, or they will crumble. You can partially slice them while still warm, then cool completely before slicing fully into bars.
Other Cookie Bar Recipes to Try
- Cherry Oat and White Chocolate Cookie Bars
- Glace Ginger, Oat and White Chocolate Cookie Bars
- Apricot, Almond and Oat Cookie Bars
- Melting Moments
Tips and FAQ's
- Don't slice too soon - Wait until the cookie bars have cooled completely before you start slicing. If not, they will start to crumble and there is no way back from this.
- Only Part slice - If you really do feel the need to slice before they cool down, do so only part of the way through. And then only score the top of the cookie bars with a very sharp knife. Once they have cooled down completely, only then do you score all the way through.
- Alternatives - Chocolate Chips are a good alternative to Toffee Fudge chunks.
- A word about the Oats - Porridge oats are best as they are partially milled and less chunky that Jumbo oats, which are whole oats.
I find they will keep for a few days when wrapped in baking parchment in an airtight container.
Toffee Fudge and Oat Cookie Bars
Equipment
- Rectangular Baking Tray
- Baking Parchment
INGREDIENTS
- 225 grams butter softened
- 115 grams soft brown sugar caster sugar is fine, but it doesn’t add to the toffee flavour
- 225 grams plain flour sieved
- ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 50 grams porridge oats not jumbo oats
- 100 grams mini fudge chunks (ready made in packets)
- 1 tablespoon Demerara sugar for dusting (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170c fan. Grease and line a 10.5 inch (27cm) x 7 inch (17.5cm) x 1 inch tray bake tin or similar with baking parchment or greaseproof paper. Please note. If you use a tin with a different size, the baking times may differ.
- Using an electric mixer, beat together the butter and sugar until soft, light and fluffy. This will only take a couple of mins.
- Sift in the flour and baking powder. Add the vanilla extract, oats and mini Toffee Fudge chunks. Mix together until well combined and forms a firm dough. Do not over beat.
- Press the dough evenly into the prepared baking pan.
- Bake in the oven for 30 mins or until lightly golden. Testing the centre of the bake with a skewer until it comes out clean.
- Take out of the oven and dust with demerara sugar.
- Leave in the tin to cool for about 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely before slicing into bars.
- You can partially slice them while still warm, then cool completely before slicing full into bars.
Notes
TIPS AND FAQ’S
- Don’t slice too soon – Wait until the cookie bars have cooled completely before you start slicing. If not, they will start to crumble and there is no way back from this.
- Only Part slice – If you really do feel the need to slice before they cool down, do so only part of the way through. And then only score the top of the cookie bars with a very sharp knife. Once they have cooled down completely, only then do you score all the way through.
- Alternatives – Chocolate Chips are a good alternative to Toffee Fudge chunks.
- A word about the Oats – Porridge oats are best as they are partially milled and less chunky that Jumbo oats, which are whole oats.
J&S Rai
Loved this, was super straightforward and delicious.
Thank you from the Rai Family.