This is a cookie I originally made for a bake sale back in Austin called Austin Bakes for Japan. They're Chocolate Skor Bar Cookies, big, thick, double chocolate cookies with chunks of Skor Bar scattered throughout. The cookies worked out well for the bake sale held up in the Texas sun (though they sold pretty quickly!). The little kids really liked the Mickey Mouse sprinkles.
This version uses Skor Bars, which I buy at Walgreens and keep in the freezer. If you can’t find Skor Bars, you can use Heath bars. Based on my experience, Skor Bars melt into the cookie more and seem a little softer. The Mickey Mouse sprinkles were something I picked up at Disney World. Obviously, you can use any kinds of sprinkles.
Skor Bar Cookies Baking Temp and Time
I don't have a ton of notes for this recipe, but as you can see they are just big fudgy double chocolate cookies. The baking temp is a slow and low 325 degrees F. which causes them to spread a little more. In this case, that's a good thing. If you feel the cookies are baking too slowly or spreading too much, you can bump up the temperature.
Recipe
Chocolate Skor Bar Cookies
Ingredients
- 8 oz unsalted butter, softened (228 grams)
- 1 cup granulated sugar (scant) (185 grams)
- ¾ cup brown sugar (150 grams)
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ⅔ cup natural cocoa powder
- 2 cups all -purpose flour (260 grams)
- ⅔ cup chocolate chips dark or semi-sweet
- 2 count Skor Bars
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Cream the butter and both sugars with an electric mixer. Beat in the eggs. Scrape sides of bowl and beat in vanilla, salt, and baking soda. Add cocoa and beat until it’s well mixed, then add flour and stir by hand until batter is mixed. Stir in the chocolate chips and the chopped Skor bars.
- At this point you can scoop the dough and bake it right away or scoop dough onto plates, cover, and chill until firm and cold.
- Scoop dough up by generous quarter cupfuls and place balls of dough about 3 ½ inches apart on the cookie sheets. Bake cookies one sheet at a time on center rack or bake both sheets using center and lower racks. If baking two trays at a time, shuffle the cookies on the middle rack to the bottom and the cookies on the bottom to the middle rack halfway through cooking.
- Bake for 22-25 minutes. Allow cookies to rest on cookie sheets for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a baking rack to cool. These cookies taste best after they’ve cooled down completely.
Anna says
The bars will melt a little and then resolidify into the cookies. If you freeze the Skor pieces or chill the dough thoroughly (which will also make the Skors cold) they will melt a little less.
Siobhan says
How to avoid melting Skor Bars!
Anna says
Glad you liked the cookies! Hope you try more.
Yahcyria says
Also meant to say..... Nice Job Anna! So glad you put that up! Do you have anything else up?????
Yahcyria says
My mom just made these and they are delicious!!!!! We're using the cookie for a bake sale in Girl Scouts! Me and the other girls in the troop had to pick a recipe to bake; I found this and I thought it sounded very good 'cause I looooovvvvveeee Skor bars! And Twizzlers sorry random fact!!!
Anna says
Sheila, this recipe works best when you make the cookies very large. For normal size or smaller double chocolate cookies, I recommend this recipe.
https://www.cookiemadness.net/2010/08/double-chocolate-dream-cookies/
Sheila says
These look great...Anna-do you think they will work in a smaller cookie? I know that for a few recipes it seems size CAN matter. Thanks!
Rose Plated says
I usually make a bible study for kids and these cookies will be a perfect treat for them after the study. Thanks for sharing. The Mickey Mouse sprinkles is so cute by the way.
Tracy says
I have to take cookies to an event at church this week. I may have to make these...
martha says
I'm sure these will be a huge hit. It's hard to go wrong with chocolate cookies and Skor bars. My mom used to make a chocolate trifle of chocolate cake, chocolate pudding, whipped cream and Skor bars years ago. Everybody loved it.
Cookie Sleuth says
Yum!!!
Anna says
Gloria, you can chill the dough but it's not necessary. The cookies are a tiny bit fatter when made with chilled dough, but they also had a nice shape and texture when baked after mixing.
Clara, Skors are a lot like Heath but a little bit more buttery tasting.
Clara Curtis says
Oh! I've never had a Skor bar! What are they like? Are they like Toffee? Heath?
Clara Curtis says
Sprinkles are an unfortunate weakness of mine.
I mean, if I have a little container of those softer jimmies, and I have a teaspoon....oh, its going down.
Anna says
But Louise, they are Mickey Mouse sprinkles!!!!!
Louise says
I hate sprinkles of any kind on cookies. I think they belong on ice cream or frosting. But that's just me. 🙂
Katrina says
Love the sprinkles! Nice looking cookies. Hope the bake sale is a big success.
melissa says
I'm going to be manning a table for Bakesale for Japan in Brooklyn! 🙂
holly says
YUMMY!! These cookies sound fab! Good luck with the bake sale:)
Gloria says
These look full of chocolately deliciousness! I would definately buy these at a bake sale. Do you cool the dough first or are they that plump without cooling?
Helena says
Huge chocolate cookies?! I would buy them all 🙂
Anna says
Laura, I like using big chunks of bars rather than cookies, but if you like using the Heath bits you might want to start with about 1/3 cup.
Sue, thanks ;).
Jeanette, I'll be in Westlake.
Mackenzie@The Caramel Cookie says
I love Skor bars! I would buy these at bake sale!
Jeanette says
Which bake sale location? I am going to try to swing by the one in central on 53rd. The cookies look delicious!
Sue says
If I could attend Austin Bakes, I'd buy those. 🙂
Laura says
I have Health bits that I buy in the baking aisle. If I use those, what would the measurement be?