Toffee Squares

So thanks to the blizzard last weekend, I got a chance to try out some new baking recipes. I definitely spent more time in the kitchen than I intended, and finally got all the counters wiped down and ingredients put away last night, but it was well worth it.
One of the new recipes I tried was for these toffee bars.

They turned out amazingly. And because I'm too lazy to type out the recipe, click here to find it. I did make a few revisions though--one especially worth noting is that instead of using regular chocolate chips I used dark chocolate chips. Some reviews had said these bars were too sweet, but I didn't find that to be the case with mine, so I'll attribute a little bit of that to my chocolate swap (and also to the fact that I have a ridiculous sweet tooth--I eat frosting straight out of the can, so very little is "too sweet"). I also discovered that on Saturday morning I was out of parchment paper, and thanks to the blizzard I was not going to be able to make it to the store to get some. Instead, I used shortening to grease the bottom and sides of the pan, and then floured it slightly. I haven't had any issues getting the bars out of the pan (on a side note, I also discovered the wax paper is not a good substitute for parchment paper--I tried this with a different recipe and when I poured the hot ingredients into the lined pan it loosened the wax and caused it to stick to the pan--and probably to my bars as well. Removing these bars from the pan was a pain, not to mention the lingering wax on the bottom of my pan. I will no longer use waxed paper for baking in the oven or to line pans while hot recipes cool). 


If you try these you'll have to let me know what you think!