Cookie of All Cookies

This is the cookie that won Taste of Home’s National Cookie Contest.  Out of more than 34,000 recipes that were tested, tasted and retested, this was the Grand Prize winner.

I have to say it is the best cookie I have ever eaten!  The mix of chocolate chips, toffee bits and pecans makes it taste like a turtle sundae.

• 1 cup butter or margarine, softened
• 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups (9 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup English toffee bits
• 1 cup chopped pecans

In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and brown sugar.  Beat in eggs and vanilla.  Combine flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture.  Stir in the remaining ingredients. Drop by heaping tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto greased baking sheets.  Bake at 375 degrees for 10 – 12 minutes or until lightly browned.  Cool for 5 minutes before removing to wire racks.  Yield:  3 1/2 dozen.

Congratulations to Marcia Severson of Kittson County, Minnesota

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