Chocolate Toffee Shortbread Hearts
Topped with a drizzle of chocolate and a sprinkle of toffee bits, golden and buttery chocolate toffee shortbread hearts are the perfect cookie for Valentine’s Day. Recipe makes 22 cookies.
These shortbread heart cookies are a simple and delicious way to say “I love you” this Valentine’s Day. Flavored with vanilla bean paste, the dough comes together in less than five minutes and rolls out easily after a quick rest in the refrigerator.
Most importantly, the hearts hold shape in the oven, making this my go-to cutout cookie recipe.
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Topped with a drizzle of chocolate and a sprinkle of toffee bits, this is the year to swap out the sugar cookie for rich pure butter shortbread.
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Baked and cooled shortbread cookies can be wrapped well and frozen up to 2 months. To thaw cookies, place on wire racks and let stand at room temperature for one hour before topping with chocolate and toffee bits.
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Chocolate Toffee Shortbread Hearts
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Yield: 22 cookies
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Description
Topped with a drizzle of chocolate and a sprinkle of toffee bits, chocolate toffee shortbread hearts are the perfect cookie for Valentine’s Day.
Ingredients
Cookies
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste (or extract)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 1 Tbsp sugar (for sprinkling)
Topping
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup toffee bits
Instructions
- Beat butter and sugar in a large mixer bowl at medium speed until combined; add vanilla bean paste and salt and beat until incorporated. Scrape down bowl as needed. Reduce speed to low and mix in flour just until incorporated and dough begins to come together in large pieces. Scrape dough out onto a piece of plastic wrap, shape into a disk and wrap well. Chill dough in the refrigerator until firm, about 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Roll out dough to slightly less than 1/4-inch thick on a lightly floured board. Use a floured 3-inch heart cutter to cut out hearts. Gather scraps to re-roll, punching out more hearts. Place hearts on baking sheets, sprinkle with sugar, and chill for 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
- Bake for 14 to 15 minutes, rotating pans halfway through, until lightly golden and edges are set. Cool for 5 minutes on baking sheets, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- For the topping, place chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and heat chocolate in 30 second intervals, stirring after each interval until melted and smooth (about 1 1/2 minutes). Transfer melted chocolate to a small piping bag and drizzle over cookies. Sprinkle cookies with toffee bits and let chocolate set before serving.
Notes
Make ahead: Baked and cooled shortbread cookies can be wrapped well and frozen up to 2 months. To thaw cookies, place on wire racks and let stand at room temperature for one hour before topping with chocolate and toffee bits.
Keywords: Shortbread, Heart Cookies, Valentine’s Day
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Heart shaped cookies are irresistible especially with the chocolate drizzle and the toffee bits! My favorite kind of cookie is with toffee bits and I know I would love these! 🙂
Shortbread is my favorite cookie, Laura. And these are gorgeous! 🙂
I made these cute shortbread cookies yesterday. I had only a 2 inch heart cutter and it worked fine. I put as many as I could in little striped red and white bags. They looked so cute and taste fabulous! Thanks for the great idea.
Hi Sonja, so glad you liked the hearts – what a cute way to present them! 🙂 Happy Valentine’s Day!
I need a good go-to cut out so I can’t wait to try these, Laura! Love the chocolate drizzle and toffee crumbles! How scrumptious!
These are seriously gorgeous! I love them so much, Laura! They combine so many great things in one little heart! 😉
These are so cute and perfect for Valentines Day! Thanks for the recipe.
These are so pretty. What a lovely thing to bake at this time of year.
I saw the cookie part on Instagram and couldn’t wait to see how they would end up. So perfect 🙂
These look so beautiful! They have such an elegant simplicity to them. This is my kind of decorating and so nice to see when almost all the Valentine’s Day cookies out there are covered in red food dye and heart sprinkles.
I agree. Their elegance is what I liked too! I could have written the above comment! 🙂
Awe! These are so cute and fun! I love that heavy chocolate drizzle! 🙂
Aww they’re so sweet Laura!! 😀 I love toffee and chocolate together!
The simplicity of the recipe makes these luscious shortbread cookies even more appealing! A splendid Valentine’s Day treat!
How very sweet xx
You’re speaking my language!!! Cookies, chocolate and toffee is a most amazing trio!
Shortbread cookies are my most favorite ever!!!
these are super duper cute and I love how you drizzled chocolate in this pattern on the cookie , with the toffee bits! Toffee bits always takes a cookie to the next level! lovely Laura!
What a treat for Valentine’s Day Laura! Number one, they’re totally beautiful and number two I bet they taste crazy good with that drizzle of chocolate and sprinkle of toffee bits! I’ll be sharing a little toffee Valentine’s Day treat later this week too!
Love a cutout that keeps it’s shape in the oven. And definitely, shortbread over sugar cookie everyday of the week!