I came across Nicole Krasinski and Kathleen Kwuan's (both of State Bird Provisions) recipe for Toffee-Apricot Oat Cookies at the same time that I discovered Miro Uskokovic's recipe for Almond-and-Plum Snack Cake, because both recipes were featured in a Food and Wine article on the political roots of bake sales. So I suppose it's fitting that I baked both recipes at the same time.
I'm generally a fan of dried apricots in cookies. Apricots work well combined with ginger, pistachios, other dried fruits, chocolate and espresso, and oats and spice. This recipe pairs them with oats, milk chocolate, and toffee. To make the batter, you cream softened butter with granulated sugar and brown sugar; add an egg; incorporate flour, vanilla, baking soda, and salt; and stir in old-fashioned oats, chopped toffee (I used Heath Bits O' Brickle), and milk chocolate (I used Cacao Barry Lactée Supérieure pistoles). You can use the batter right away. I used a #24 scoop to portion out the dough and got 15 cookies per batch.
These cookies were so good. The dough spread a fair amount in the oven and the finished cookies were quite flat and deeply textured from the oats. They were super chewy and I loved all of the interesting textures from the oats, dried fruit, and toffee. I've become such a fan of milk chocolate of late and it worked so well here -- the flavors were well balanced and harmonious, yielding a cookie that was quite interesting without seeming foreign. It was deeply satisfying. If you like oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies, this deluxe chewy version is well worth your time.
Recipe: "Toffee-Apricot Oat Cookies" by Nicole Krasinski and Kathleen Kwuan, from Food and Wine.
Previous Posts:
- "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Big Chewy Apricot and Ginger Cookies," August 14, 2019.
- "Would You Take a Cookie from a Stranger on a Train?: Apricot-Pistachio Biscotti," April 8, 2017.
- "Chewy Crunchy Cakey: Almond and Apricot Cookies," March 19, 2017.
- "So Much Goodness to the Square Inch: Pebbly Beach Fruit Squares," March 7, 2017.
- "A Fruitful Combination: Chocolate and Apricot Cookies," December 5, 2013.
- "The Fruit Blends In but the Cookie Stands Out: Cranberry Apricot Oatmeal Cookies," August 31, 2013.
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