17 Recipes That Start With a Bag of Butterscotch Chips
Butterscotch can elevate any dessert with its buttery, creamy, and decadent flavor. If you've ever bought a bag of butterscotch morsels for a specific recipe, but now they're sitting in your pantry half-used, you're already on your way to making these delicious cookies, breads, and bars. Grab that bag and scroll through to find recipes that are made perfect with tasty butterscotch chips.
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Fudge Jumbles (Chocolate Cookie Bars)
These oatmeal cookie bars have a gooey chocolate and butterscotch fudge center. This recipe uses half butterscotch chips and half chocolate chips for the middle, but you can use all butterscotch if you like.
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White Chocolate Butterscotch Mocha
A tasty twist on the traditional white chocolate mocha, this coffee drink uses both butterscotch and white chocolate chips. This recipe was designed for the Ninja Coffee Bar, but if you don't have one, you can just add all the ingredients to your hot cup of coffee.
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Easy "No Measure" S'mores Bars
No measuring cups? No problem! You can just eyeball everything in this recipe to make these easy s'mores bars.
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Everything Cupcakes
These cupcakes have, well, everything! A package of white cake mix is mixed with marshmallows, butterscotch chips, chocolate-covered toffee, chocolate chips, and flaked coconut. A creamy peanut butter center adds to their appeal.
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Butterscotch Drops
With only three ingredients, this no-bake recipe is too easy not to make. Simply melt your butterscotch and peanut butter on the stove — or in the microwave — and add the cornflakes. Scoop them on a cookie sheet, stick them in the fridge, and relax while you wait for the easiest dessert ever to harden.
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Caramel Peanut Fudge
A caramel peanut fudge with two different layers of creamy butterscotch. Reviewers recommend lining your pan with parchment paper so the fudge doesn't stick.
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Kitchen Sink Cookies
Everything but the kitchen sink is in these cookies, including rolled oats, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, vanilla chips, and pecans. Since these cookies are meant to be chock-full of goodies, you can add or substitute anything you like — some common additions from reviewers include raisins and peanut butter chips.
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Chocolate Scotcheroo Bars
A butterscotch, peanut butter, and chocolate twist on traditional Rice Krispie treats. You can use crisp rice cereal, Special K, or Chex cereal to make these bars. Reviewers say not to let your corn syrup boil for too long or it will be too hard to mix.
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Seven Layer Bars
This seven-layer bar only takes 15 minutes to prep and is so easy to throw into the pan — you don't even have to dirty a bowl. Just layer melted butter, graham cracker crumbs, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, walnuts, sweetened condensed milk, and coconut and bake until golden brown. Voilà , the perfect cookie bar!
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Butterscotch Bread Pudding
Put your stale bread to good use with this Butterscotch Bread Pudding. "If I could give it more than 5 stars I certainly would. I am dumbfounded at how easy and delicious this recipe is. I used French Bread (day old) and followed the recipe to the 'T," says reviewer Nandabear.
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Cowboy Oatmeal Cookies
Reviewers call this oatmeal cookie recipe foolproof. Alongside butterscotch chips, you can also add chopped walnuts or pecans, and reviewers suggest adding one teaspoon of vanilla extract.
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Butterscotch Cheesecake Bars
Recipe creator zeokofski says even non-cheesecake fans love these Butterscotch Cheesecake Bars. "First off this is an easy dessert to make — no unusual ingredients and no difficult prep steps. If you're a butterscotch fan, you'll love the way your kitchen smells while these buttery bad boys are baking. The best part is these taste every bit as good as they smell; subtly salty, sweet melt-in-your-mouth goodness in every bite," says home cook BakerInBeautifulIdaho.
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Peanut Butter Haystacks
Four-ingredient Peanut Butter Haystacks are a delicious no-bake cookie for any time of year. You can even dress them up for holidays by adding red and green M&M's at Christmas or jelly beans at Easter.
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Pumpkin Cookies I
This spicy fall cookie is complete with a soft and moist texture. You can also use pumpkin pie spice instead of cinnamon. "This will now become my standard pumpkin cookie recipe! So yummy, super simple, and with no eggs," says reviewer Tara.
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Banana Butterscotch Bread
Grab your ripe bananas and try this variation of banana bread with butterscotch chips and walnuts. If this recipe is too sweet, reviewers say you can use whole wheat flour to balance it out.
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Disappearing Marshmallow Brownies
This blonde brownie is packed with butterscotch, marshmallows, and chocolate chips and it's so good it won't last long at your house. These bars are super rich and gooey — try adding more marshmallows for extra gooeyness — and reviewers say it's nearly impossible to eat just one.
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Butterscotch Biscotti
If you're looking for a sweet pick-me-up to serve with your coffee or tea, try this Butterscotch Biscotti. These cookies are packed with butterscotch chips and almonds, and a fun secret ingredient: bourbon.