Chocolate Toffee Butter Cookies

I am writing this post for my dear sweet cousin Elise, who found (in Boise, Idaho no less) the required toffee chips to make these cookies. She had read a previous post about my fruitless search in Seattle for the toffee chips without chocolate (I tried four different stores but could only find the toffee bits with chocolate).

Here are the toffee-studded cookies waiting to be "dressed."

I melted some bittersweet chocolate--the recipe calls for semi-sweet, but I thought bittersweet would be better given the sweetness of the toffee bits.

You drizzle the chocolate on the the cookies and top it all with some chopped pecans:

Here they are ready to serve (with a few Russian Tea Cakes tossed in on the platter):

The Chocolate Toffee Butter Cookies recipe is here at CooksCountry.com (country cousin of Cooks Illustrated). Subscription is required, but you can sign up for a 14-day free trial. These cookies won the Cook's Country Christmas cookie contest last year.