Homemade Twix Cookie Recipe (2024)

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Shortbread cookies topped with caramel and drizzled with chocolate are an awesome treat to make for special occasions.

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These deliciously buttery and sweet Homemade Twix Cookies will make everyone smile. With layers of shortbread and caramel, drizzled with chocolate, they are the perfect

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Raise your hand if you love Twix. You can't see it but my hand is definitely raised. IloveTwix. I actually love them so much, I was inspired to create a Twix Cookie recipe. It might just be better than the original. Trust me on this - it's the perfect mix of shortbread cookie, caramel filling and chocolate.

While I love a good candy bar for a quick fix, these cookies are totally amazing. They're just so irresistible! What do you think, would you make Homemade Twix Cookies? I bet your family and friends would LOVE these, so give them a try!

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Ingredients

  • Unsalted butter
  • Sugar
  • Egg yolks
  • Vanilla
  • Flour
  • Caramel candies (or use our homemade caramel sauce)
  • Heavy cream
  • Chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. First, preheat your oven to 325F.
  2. Next, combine butter, sugar, egg yolks and vanilla.
  3. Then beat these ingredients at medium speed, making sure to scrape your bowl.
  4. Then add the flour and beat at low speed until it's all mixed.
  5. Now cover the dough and refrigerate until firm.
  6. When it's firm, roll the dough into 1-inch balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet 2 inches apart from each other.
  7. Next, press your thumb into the center of each of the dough balls.
  8. Finally, bake 7-10 minutes until edges begin to brown.
  9. Cool completely.
  10. While they're cooling, make the filling by melting the caramel and heavy cream in the microwave in 30 second intervals.
  11. After that, fill each indentation with the caramel mixture.
  12. Next, melt the chocolate in 30 second intervals in the microwave.
  13. Finally, add the melted chocolate to a piping bag or a Ziploc bag with a corner snipped and spread a small drizzle on top of the cookies.

Storage

Once the caramel and chocoalte have set, store the cookies in an airtight container between layers of parchment paper. These will last 3-4 days if stored properly.

To Make-Ahead - the dough can be made about 1 week in advance and kept in an airtight refrigerator until ready to use. Allow the dough to rest on the counter about 20 minutes before portioning and baking.

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These homemade Twix cookies are a great snack to keep on hand! If you love this recipe, I'd love for you to give it 5 stars!

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Homemade Twix Cookies

Shortbread cookies topped with caramel and drizzled with chocolate are an awesome treat to make for special occasions.

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: homemade twix cookies

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 48

Author: Ang Paris

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Ingredients

Cookie

  • cup unsalted Butter softened
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • cups all-purpose flour

Filling

  • 14 soft caramel candies
  • 3 tablespoons heavy cream

Chocolate Drizzle

  • 6 ounces milk chocolate chips

Instructions

Cookie

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

  • Combine ⅔ cup butter, sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla in bowl.

    ⅔ cup unsalted Butter, ½ cup sugar, 2 egg yolks, 1 teaspoon vanilla

  • Beat at medium speed, making sure to scrape the bowl.

  • Add flour and beat at low speed until well mixed.

    1½ cups all-purpose flour

  • Cover and refrigerate until firm.

  • Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.

  • Press your thumb into the center of each cookie.

  • Bake 7-10 minutes or until edges begin to brown.

  • Cool completely.

Filling

  • Melt the caramel and heavy cream in the microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring in between until it is fully melted.

    14 soft caramel candies, 3 tablespoons heavy cream

  • Fill each indentation with the caramel.

Topping

  • Melt chocolate in a microwave stirring 30 seconds at a time until smooth.

    6 ounces milk chocolate chips

  • You can use a small piping bag OR a freezer bag with the corner snipped with kitchen sheers to spread a small drizzle over the top of each cookie.

Notes

You can make ahead and freeze the shortbread dough. After the dough thaws, follow the steps for baking as normal.

For best results, be sure to check our Tips and FAQs above with important tips and questions that can help your delicious recipe come out perfectly.

Please Note: I am not a registered dietician. Any nutritional data I provide is an approximation and actual dietary information can vary based on ingredients and portion sizes.

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  1. Denise says

    Homemade Twix Cookie Recipe (13)
    Oh my, these look incredible!

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  2. Andrea says

    Homemade Twix Cookie Recipe (14)
    Hi Ang,
    I made these for the holidays and they were a HUGE hit! EVERYONE asked for the recipe!
    Andrea

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  3. Jen says

    Homemade Twix Cookie Recipe (15)
    I made these for our school bake sale. I was worried they would be messy but they were not. 3 different teachers asked for the recipe!!

    Reply

  4. Lori says

    How many cookies does this recipe make?

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    • Ang Paris says

      This recipe will make approximately 48 small cookies or 36 medium-sized cookies.

      Reply

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Homemade Twix Cookie Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is the cookie made of in Twix? ›

The cookie part of a Twix bar is a layer of shortbread. It's part of what makes the candy bar so special and what it's known for.

What are the ingredients in Twix cookie mix? ›

Ingredients: Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate, Skim Milk, Lactose, Milkfat, Soy Lecithin, Pgpr, Artificial Flavor), Palm Oil, Enriched Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Sugar, Corn Syrup; Less Than 2% Of: Skim Milk, Salt, Sea Salt, Cocoa Powder, ...

What is the crunchy thing in a Twix bar? ›

Left TWIX became a crunchy biscuit base upon which caramel was flowed before being bathed in chocolate. Meanwhile Right TWIX was a cascade of caramel on a crisp biscuit base, cloaked in chocolate.

Who makes Twix cookies? ›

Mars, Incorporated

Is Twix made of shortbread? ›

A Twix bar is one of the quintessential candy bars, and a favorite loved by so many. It is essentially made of three components, shortbread, caramel, and a milk chocolate coating.

Is Left Twix and right Twix the same? ›

Or, to put it another way, what is the difference between left and right Twix? According to Twix themselves, the right side is “smooth caramel flowed onto crispy cookie and bathed in chocolate” while the left Twix is “crunchy cookies cascaded with soft caramel and cloaked in milk chocolate.” So, there you go.

Do Twix cookie dough bites need to be refrigerated? ›

Comes ready-to-eat with no refrigeration required, so you can enjoy this sweet and salty treat anytime! Perfectly portioned for snacking, one taste of these irresistibly addictive morsels and you'll be hooked!

Why do Twix bars say left and right? ›

The "history" behind the Left Twix and Right Twix is chronicled on the candy's website, telling the story of two brothers who were collaborators-turned-rivals, splitting the candy they once developed together into two factories, creating Left Twix and Right Twix separately.

What's the difference between a Twix and a KitKat? ›

Once the wafers in the Kit-Kat get too cold or too hot then they aren't as good and they don't taste the same. The variety of flavors for a Twix is a way bigger than the variety of flavors for a Kit-Kat. That is why if you are looking for the perfect chocolate candy to pick Twix over a Kit-Kat.

Is Twix a cookie or a candy? ›

Twix is a cookie, topped with caramel (or peanut butter) and then covered in chocolate. The cookie is like…a hard, stale butter cookie. Very dense. A kit kat is a multi-layered wafer , coated in chocolate.

What is Twix called in Germany? ›

Twix was introduced in 1979. Twix was called Raider in Austria, France, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, Finland and the Netherlands for many years before its name was changed in 1991 to match the international brand name. This name change was met with scorn in Germany. The slogan Raider heißt jetzt Twix, ...

Does Hershey own Twix? ›

But who owns all of the iconic candy brands that many of us have enjoyed since childhood? The Hershey Company HSY owns many favorite brands, like Reese's, Heath, KitKat, and, of course, the Hershey's chocolate bars. There's Mars Inc., which has Snickers, M&Ms, and Twix in its brand portfolio.

Which country owns Twix? ›

Both Twix and Snickers (Marathon) bars are owned by the American Mars company. “Twix” bars were first introduced to the British market in 1967. Mars eventually began marketing them in America in 1979. “Snickers” bars were first marketed in the 1930s, in both the US and the UK.

Does Twix have cookie in it? ›

A delightful cookies and cream filled center packed with crunchy cookie bits nestled under a rich coating of real milk chocolate and a crunchy cookie. Now the real question is, to share or not to share?

Is Twix a chocolate or a biscuit? ›

A Twix contains only 35% chocolate, whereas the famous Fox's chocolate round (clearly described as a biscuit) contains a whopping 71% chocolate. Meaning that if we went by the Mumsnet definition, a Twix is in fact a biscuit whereas a Fox's chocolate round would be classed as a chocolate bar.

Does Twix have cookie or wafer? ›

Twix has a layer of caramel and a layer of plain cookie. KitKat has delicate wafer inside.

Is Twix a cookie or candy? ›

While Twix, the chocolate-covered, caramel “cookie bars” carried in the candy aisle of most stores, lists flour as its third ingredient, it was taxed differently at different stores. Twix isn't the only tricky item.

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