This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #NorthpoleFun #CollectiveBias
One of our favorite traditions during the holidays is gifting friends and family members with various baked goods. There’s nothing like whipping up a tasty dish to let people know we care. My son’s 4H group was making cards and Christmas gifts for the local nursing home and I had planned to sneak cookies onto the porch of some of our friends who had been having a bad year. We had planned on making our gooey, rich homemade caramel brownies, but instead, due to a series of unfortunate events, didn’t have time to make them. I didn’t want to ruin tradition so I decided we would make the cheater’s version of cookies instead. I came up with these delicious caramel toffee cookies and they turned out to be a hit!
While browsing the holiday section of my Walmart, I found the Hallmark Northpole collection, including some of the cutest Northpole toys and Northpole gifts. I decided to purchase the Bake like an Elf baking tools with recipe cards and the Sprinkle Bell so we could have Northpole adventures of our own. The Bake Like An Elf kit allowed us to measure with an elf mitten, an elf boot and half a jingle bell, plus it included favorite recipes from some of the elves themselves. As soon as I have a free minute I plan to make Penny’s Thumbprint cookies!
Want to know our secret Northpole recipe? We started with packaged sugar cookie dough! Then we jazzed it up with the addition of toffee chips, caramel chips, and almond extract. We finished with a white chocolate drizzle and a smattering of sprinkles, using the sprinkle bell. I had fun translating how many boots and mittens we were supposed to use. How often can I tell the kids to add another mitten or boot to the cookies? We even made a new saying, “Every time the sprinkle bell rings, another angel cookie gets her wings.”
I’ll share a nugget of elf wisdom with you: Line the cookie sheets with aluminum foil and spray with cooking spray before placing the cookies on the sheet. Make sure to allow them to cool completely before removing them from the sheet. If not, all of Santa and his elves’ magic will not keep the cookies in one piece!
We experimented with the Sprinkle Bell and found it worked best using smaller sprinkles rather than the larger, shaped sprinkles.
- 1 package (12 ounces) Sugar Cookie Dough
- 3 boots (1 1/2 cups) caramel chips (or chopped caramel pieces)
- 2 mittens (3/4 cup) toffee chips
- 1 jingle bell (1 teaspoon) almond extract
- For the drizzle:
- 1 boot (1/2 cup) white chocolate chips, melted
- Sprinkle Bell for decorating
- Mix the cookie dough, caramel chips, toffee chips and almond extract together in a large bowl until well mixed. Roll the dough into small balls and allow them to chill for one hour. Place the dough on a cookie sheet covered with aluminum foil and sprayed with cooking spray.
- Bake at 350 degrees for around 8 minutes. Allow to cool completely. Melt white chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl for 45 seconds, stir. Drizzle white chocolate over the cookies and decorate with sprinkles.
We plan to bake and decorate our desserts using our elf baking tools throughout the month. It’s a great way to get the kids involved in cooking and would be a fun gift for teachers, coworkers and friends. Want to experience the Northpole for yourself? Check out this video!
Now, if you will excuse me, I will go sneak one of the cookies I saved for myself. It’s my Christmas Gift to me!
What’s your favorite Christmas memory?
Baking like an elf would be such a fun tradition to start! I like that you measure in boots and have a sprinkle bell.
That bake like an elf set is just too cute. Those cookies look delicious, too!
oh my gosh those measuring cups are TOO TOO cute – I must get some next time I’m out and about for the rest of my baking. What a delightful tradition to bring out each year to bake with your kids in the kitchen.
Those look so festive and delicious. You make the most amazing cookies girl!
Actually you covered one of my favorite holiday memories right here because decorating Christmas cookies was a big, big deal. I seriously loved that and it was a major production each year! That’s a really cute sprinkle sprinkler, by the way and the cookies look YUMMY!
Fun!! Baking around the holidays is always a big tradition for us, as well! Glad you were able to come up with a fun “cheater” version that still passed around plenty of love! The items you used are SO cute-perfect for holiday baking! #client
These looks so delicious!
And for our house it normally depends each year how well i feel to bake. Otherwise I’ll buy something if I am having too much of a flare up!
Love the Sprinkle Bell, that’s too cute! I need to pick up some of the Northpole Collection for my grand daughter. Will be fun to include her in our holiday baking efforts!
Yummm.. these look amazing.. I love the Northpole Collection.. I’m a bit addicted, I think I bought every single item already.. SOO cute and perfect to sweeten the Holidays with kids… Thanks for sharing, love Caramel Toffee cookies..YUUUMMM.. wonder if Santa will deliver…??
Wow…those look so good!