We have most of a bag of butterscotch chips sitting in our pantry after making a batch of blondies, and are scratching our heads over what else we can make with them. We've also gotten a little addicted to sneaking a few chips at a time out of the bag, and need to nip that in the bud! Any suggestions?
Butterscotch chips have a smooth, buttery flavor. It's not quite caramel, but they're more than just plain sugar. We think they make a great pairing with both very dark chocolate (as contrasting flavors) and with cooked or stewed fruit (as complementing flavors).
Here are a few ideas and recipes we have:
• Baked Apples - We could add a handful of butterscotch chips to the brown sugar-oatmeal stuffing in our favorite baked apple recipe.
• Banana Bread - Ditto with this quick bread! Even better would be a handful of butterscotch chips and a handful of semi-sweet chocolate chips.
• Scones - Butterscotch would go nicely with tart dried cranberries, cherries, or any other dried fruit in a breakfast scone, don't you think?
• Brownies - Imagine dark chocolate brownies studded with creamy pockets of butterscotch.
• Quick Fondue - As long as we're eating the chips plain, we might as well melt them down and dip some pieces of fruit!
• Ice Cream - Any excuse to make a batch of frozen custard is good in our book. We could melt the chips into the ice cream base or add them in whole pieces at the end.
• Seven-Layer Magic Cookie Bars - We can't not mention these bars, right? Seven-layer bars were our favorite at family picnics and church suppers as kids.
What other ideas do you have for using up a batch of butterscotch chips?
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My mother used to make a butterscotch quickbread--it was incredible!
I'm a recovering Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookie addict, myself.
I always throw some in my chocolate chip cookies as well. Grate a little orange zest along side and you have a grand improvement over the plain old chocochip classic.
Regan Daley has the *most* amazing Butter-Toffee Shortbread recipe in her fantastic book, In the Sweet Kitchen. Chock full of butterscotch chips and toffee bits, but they melt together into a crunchy golden concoction. I made these for basically all my Christmas gifts this year, and they got rave reviews. I highly recommend them!
@meg254 agreed. oatmeal butterscotch = spoiled dinner.
yes, oatmeal scotchies for sure. always makes for happy mouths and tummies.
I have to second meg254's oatmeal butterscotch cookies addiction - they are great, especially with a little salt on top! Also, when I was in college we would melt butterscotch chips and mix them with frosted flakes and then put them on waxed paper to harden - too sweet for me now, but they were SO good!
Crater Cake... It's a banana sheet cake with cinnamon and brown sugar and chocolate and butterscotch chips sprinkled in the center and on the top. SOOOOO gooooooooooood.
My favorite cake as a child, and something I still love is butterscotch cake - this is the closest I could find to my mother's recipe:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1840,155189-237195,00.html
ingredients like this usually don't stick around my pantry long enough to make it into recipes. I most likely end up snacking on it.
My uncles makes Butterscotch chip Pancakes on Sunday mornings. They don't even need syrup, and they're SO yummy!
BUTTERSCOTCH WHISKEY BARS!
http://fritesandfries.com/post/220603071/butterscotch-n-whiskey-cookie-bars
People from the mid-west might know these but my grandmother would make ting-a-lings. Very simple:
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup butterscotch chips
1 can sweetened condensed milk
4 cups Chinese noodles
In a sauce pan combine chips and milk and melt the chips over medium heat stirring frequently but not boiling. Let cool slightly until thick. On a cookie sheet lined with wax paper, take small handfuls of Chinese noodles and make individual stack over the pace of the wax paper. Pour chip mixture over each stack and refrigerate until firm (about an hour).
I am not sure what they are called - i think of them as haystacks, I have had them but never made them...but you melt the butterscotch chips with peanuts and chow mein noodles and form into little stacks then coat with melted chocolate. they are weird but pretty delicious.
Scotcheroos! This is a necessity at my family's Christmases. Just heat 1 cup corn syrup and 1 cup sugar until it boils, turn off heat, add 1 cup peanut butter, stir until smooth, then stir in 6 cups rice krispy cereal. Pour into greased 9"x13" pan, and press in firmly and let set. Then heat 1 cup chocolate chips and 1 cup butterscotch chips on low until all melted, and pour over the treat. Let it set overnight, and then I like to use a metal pastry/board scraper thing to cut into squares. Yum... I need to make some more soon!
I'm with meg254-- awesom in oatmeal cookies.
My mom makes cookies called "Oatmeal Scotchies". Omg.
Kinda nice in banana bread, but maybe reduce the sugar in the recipe a touch so it doesn't get cloying.
There HAS to be some sort of fondue solution here, too... mmmmmmm.
My mom and I make nut bars that are fabulous. They have the added benefit protein from the nuts so you actually feel fuller after eating one too. I'm pretty sure that this woman uses the same recipe: http://karaskitchencreations.blogspot.com/2009/11/butterscotch-nut-bars.html
These are great for flapjacks or if your really lazy toss them into a freshly made batch of salted popcorn!
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my roommate also used to make butterscotch oatmeal cookies and they were divine!
My mom would melt butterscotch chips in one bowl, chocolate chips in another (I think to use up the half bag of each that always seemed to hang out in her baking cupboard). While they melted, she would arrange leftover packets of the crunchy noodles from chow mein takeout in a pan, then dribble the melted chips over them. Let it cool, then break it into pieces, and this was such yummy candy/cookies!!! You could probably empty half of your cupboard into this: marshmallows, the last cup of cereal in the box, chopped nuts.
I used butterscotch chips in bread pudding and it was a crowd pleaser!
Rice Krispy Treats, made with butterscotch morsels and peanut butter. Melt morsels with peanut butter in microwave. Add rice krispies, mix, and flatten in foil lined pan. Cut into squares. Delicious!
Oatmeal scotchies! I l love butterscotch chips in just about everything - granola bars, oatmeal, trail mix, pudding, and melted down and drizzled over sliced apples...
I've made 'haystacks' with pretzel sticks and they're pretty awesome if you're into sweet/salty.
Another vote for oatmeal cookies - although I like a mix of chocolate and butterscotch chips in them.
ysabella, I like how you roll.
YES to the butterscotch oatmeal cookies. :) My family's recipe has flaked coconut and walnuts in them too. They're my dad's all time favorite cookie.
I take equal amounts of butterscotch chips and the white baking chips and chopped pecans, then sprinkle it on waffle batter in the waffle iron before I close the lid, we call them butter pecan waffles.
Is there a recipe somewhere for the Seven-Layer Magic Cookie Bars?
one of my favorite trail mixes at trader joes incorporates either butterscotch chips or peanut butter chips with dark chocolate chips, almonds, dried cranberries, cashews, plus ?
i always love a handful of b-chips thrown into my oatmeal choc chip cookie recipe.
Can't be said enough- OATMEAL SCOTCHIES! My all time favorite cookies.
A slightly healthier version of the haystacks mentioned here is to use fiber one cereal instead -- it packs a wallop of fiber while still be very good and cookie-like. I do this with cinnamon or chocolate chips, too.
Personally, I'm a big fan of just eating them out of the bag. hehehe... but if you insist... Rocky Ledge Bars, Pumpkin Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cookies, Oatmeal Scotchies
Christina Tosi of Momofuko Milk Bar uses them in her Compost Cookies. They are ah-mazing.