Shortbread serves as a base for this chocolaty pecan toffee. Pecan-Toffee Shortbread makes excellent food gifts, but make extra because it'll be hard to give this sweet treat away.
These are quite good. For those claiming it "isn't toffee", you are right. The shortbread dough is toffee flavored (hence brown sugar instead of white). I am a huge shortbread fan, as I am of Scottish descent. I am picky when it comes to messing with a classic recipe. I used a good quality chocolate instead of chocolate chips and vanilla bean instead of extract. Will make again and again!
I thought this was very good. The shortbread was a little dry and crunchier than I would prefer so I think next time I will bake it maybe a few minutes less, and see if that will help. But otherwise it was very good.
When I read this recipe I saw that it had butter and brown sugar which would give it a toffee-like flavor. I did not expect it to be toffee. I wanted a bark-like shortbread cookie which this is. It is delicious, packaged beautifully and everyone loved it.
There is nothing about these cookies or this recipe that suggests toffee. It is chocolate pecan shortbread....NO TOFFEE.
I made these for a Christmas party last year since I love both toffee and shortbread, but this recipe was a real disappointment. These cookies were not worth the time or ingredients.
