heath bar cookies

Henry and Jon are requesting heath bar cookies - again. My all time most requested recipe. 


2 cups plus 6 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 generous pinches of kosher salt
2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
12 tablespoons granulated sugar
12 tablespoons (packed) light brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 cup milk chocolate chips
1 bag mini heath bars broken into pieces


Preheat oven to 350.


Stir the flour, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl.


Combine the butter, both sugars, and vanilla in mixing bowl and beat until light (use electric mixer). Beat in the egg. Slowly add the flour mixture, beating until smooth. Then stir in the chocolate chips and heath bar pieces.


I like to make the cookies large - about 6 per baking sheet evenly spaced.  Bake for about 10 minutes, remove tray from the oven, tap on counter (flattens cookie) and bake for a couple more minutes until done. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Recipe makes about 2 dozen large cookies.


This recipe also works well for a 'cookie cake'.  Bake the entire mixture in a disposable half sheet cake pan, cool and decorate with frosting.