5-Ingredient Twix Cookies Recipe (Video) (2024)

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A buttery shortbread cookie spread with layers of creamy caramel, followed by a spoonful of melted chocolate. Our 5-ingredient Twix cookies are so easy to make!

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Watch our step by step video!

If you like our frosted fudge shortbread cookies, you’ll love our latest version—caramel and chocolate shortbread cookies. Twix cookies!

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Our Twix cookies are made with 5 ingredients and are the easiest version around. This is because we used pre-made caramel dip! No melting down caramel candies and mixing in heavy cream (although you totally can do that if you prefer the flavor of caramel candy vs. dip).

Did you know that shortbread cookies are made with only 3 ingredients? Butter, powdered sugar and flour. That’s it! The main difference between a sugar cookie and a shortbread cookie is the density. Sugar cookies are lighter (made with baking powder), and shortbread cookies are more dense with a buttery taste. This makes it the perfect base for our Twix cookies.

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Twix Cookie Recipe Ingredients

  • Butter: you must use butter. It is simply the best for making shortbread cookies.
  • Powdered Sugar: using powdered sugar results in a melt-in-your-mouth cookie.
  • Flour: all purpose flour works great.
  • Caramel Dip: found in the produce section at the grocery store. Use the leftovers for sliced apples or caramel cider donuts!
  • Chocolate Chips: milk chocolate is my preferred chocolate chip for these cookies, but semi-sweet or melting wafers can be used.

How To Make the Easiest Twix Cookies!

Step 1: Make the shortbread cookie dough.

Step 2: Roll out dough, cut out cookies with round cookie cutter and bake.

Step 3: Spread with caramel dip and melted chocolate.

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Twix Cookie Shortbread Base

Combine ingredients in a large bowl using an electric mixer. The dough will resemble coarse sand. Turn the mixer off and form the dough into a ball with your hands. What first looked like coarse sand will end up forming a beautiful dough.

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This recipe makes 26-30 delicious shortbread cookies. I like making mine smaller (2″), but you can make them any size you’d like.

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Cut out into small circles using a cookie cutter or biscuit cutter and place on an uncreased cookie sheet.

Bake at 325 degrees for 13-15 minutes. Let cool on baking sheet 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack. Cool completely.

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Twix Cookie Toppings

Caramel layer: The caramel dip is ready to go, no prep necessary.

Chocolate layer: Melt chocolate chips in the microwave (in a small microwave safe bowl) for 30 seconds. Stir. Heat an additional 30 seconds. Stir, and continue to stir until all chocolate chips are melted and smooth.

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Spread each cookie with about a teaspoon of caramel followed by a teaspoon of chocolate.

Optional: sprinkle with sea salt after adding chocolate.

Chill cookies in the fridge for 20-30 minutes, or until chocolate firms up.

Store cooled cookies at room temperature in an airtight container.

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5-Ingredient Twix Cookies

A shortbread cookie spread with caramel, followed by a spoonful of melted chocolate. Our 5-ingredient Twix cookies are so easy to make!

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Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 13 minutes minutes

cooling: 20 minutes minutes

Total Time: 48 minutes minutes

Servings: 26

Calories: 190kcal

Ingredients

Cookies

  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 3/4 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup caramel dip
  • 1 cup milk chocolate chips

Instructions

Cookies

  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

  • Combine butter, powdered sugar and flour in a large bowl using an electric mixer.

  • The dough will resemble coarse sand. Turn the mixer off and form the dough into a ball with your hands. What first looked like coarse sand will end up forming a beautiful dough.

  • Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface. Dough should be about 1/2″ thick.

  • Cut out into small circles and place on an ungreased baking sheet.

  • Bake cookies for 13-15 minutes. Let cool on baking sheet 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack. Cool completely.

Twix Topping

  • Melt chocolate chips in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir. Heat an additional 30 seconds. Stir until chocolate chips have melted completely and are smooth.

  • Spoon about a teaspoon of caramel dip over each cookie. Spread smooth.

  • Spoon about a teaspoon of melted chocolate over each cookie. Spread smooth.

  • Refrigerate cookies 20-30 minutes or until chocolate firms up.

Notes

Store cookies at room temperature.

Can also use melted caramel candy to make these cookies. Add a splash of heavy whipping cream to melted candy and stir until smooth and spreadable.

Nutrition

Calories: 190kcal

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5-Ingredient Twix Cookies Recipe (Video) (2024)

FAQs

What is the Twix cookie made of? ›

Twix Cookies made with soft sugar shortbread topped with rich caramel and milk chocolate and sprinkled with chopped Twix candy bars. These Millionaire Cookies are the best chocolate caramel shortbread cookie!

What is in the middle of a Twix? ›

Twix, for those who aren't familiar with it, is a candy bar consisting of a crumbly cookie that's topped with caramel and enrobed in milk chocolate. It's traditionally sold in packs of two slender bars. For years, a fierce debate has percolated over whether the duo are identical or different.

Does Twix Cookies and cream have caramel? ›

It's got a crunchy cookie center and the cream filling also has bits of cookie, so it's more of a clean break than you get with your typical Twix. There's no messy (but delicious!) caramel here...just cookies and creme.

Is Twix a candy or cookie? ›

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. KitKat bars and some other candy-aisle confections also contain flour.

What are the 3 main ingredients in Twix? ›

TWIX® Brings You Simple Joy, Twice! INGREDIENTS: SUGAR, GLUCOSE SYRUP, WHEAT FLOUR (17%), PALM FAT, SKIMMED MILK POWDER, COCOA BUTTER, COCOA MASS, MILK FAT, LACTOSE, WHEY PERMEATE (FROM MILK), FAT REDUCED COCOA, SALT, EMULSIFIER (SOYA LECITHIN), RAISING AGENT (E500), VANILLA EXTRACT.

What are the ingredients in Twix cookie mix? ›

Ingredients: sugar, heat-treated wheat flour, palm kernel oil, chopped twix, caramel shreds, milk chocolate chip, shortbread crunch (wheat flour, margarine, granulated sugar), whole milk powder, tapioca syrup, glycerin, natural and artificial flavors, salt, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate, duralox rosemary.

What was Twix originally called? ›

The name is a portmanteau of "twin sticks". Twix was called Raider in mainland Europe for many years before its name was changed in 1991 (2000 in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Turkey) to match the international brand name.

Why do Twix say left or right? ›

Why do Twix bars say 'Right' or 'Left' on them? It is in support of their advertising campaign, which suggests the left and right pieces are made by rival factories. In truth, both halves are made exactly the same way.

What is the white stuff in Twix? ›

(Spoiler alert, it's still safe to eat!) This white film does not mean the chocolate is moldy or has gone bad. It's actually just a scientific process called “chocolate bloom”. There are two types of this bloom: sugar bloom and fat bloom.

Are Twix cookies and cream discontinued? ›

The flavor is coming back after popular demand, having been discontinued in the past. The flavor replaces the classic caramel layer in original Twix with a soft, creme center with cookie bits throughout. Of course, the candy bar includes a crunchy, cookie layer as well.

Is Twix a shortbread? ›

A homemade Twix bar is one of my favorite treats on this planet. Gooey homemade caramel is perfectly sandwiched between the classic Twix candy bar ingredients of a shortbread cookie and milk chocolate—every bite is perfection. This post may contain affiliate links.

Does Twix make peanut butter Twix? ›

For a fun treat anytime, try TWIX Creamy Peanut Butter Cookie Bars. It's the same TWIX Cookie Bar you know and love, but with a peanut butter twist!

What do they call Twix in Germany? ›

Twix was called Raider in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Norway for many years before its name was changed in 1991 (2000 in Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Turkey).

What is the oldest candy bar? ›

Launched in 1866—nineteen years after Fry's created the first moulded, solid chocolate eating bar (in 1847)— Fry's Chocolate Cream is the first mass-produced chocolate bar and is the world's oldest chocolate bar brand.

What is Twix called in the UK? ›

A Twix has always been a Twix in the UK having first been produced here in 1967. However, the caramel chocolate bar did go by another name in other parts of Europe. You might remember from your holidays that the sweet was known by another name - Raider - up until 1991.

Is the Twix biscuit shortbread? ›

Twix is a caramel shortbread chocolate bar made by Mars, Inc., consisting of a biscuit applied with other confectionery toppings and coatings (most frequently caramel and milk chocolate). Twix are packaged with one (mini and snack sizes), two or four bars (king size) in a wrapper.

What are the ingredients in Twix edible cookie dough? ›

Ingredients: Palmfruit Shortening, Sugar, Heat-Treated Wheat Flour, Milk Chocolate Chips [Sugar, Unsweetened Chocolate, Dry Whole Milk, Cocoa Butter, Nonfat Dry Milk, Soy Lecithin (An Emulsifier), Vanilla Extract], Chopped Twix [Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate, Skim Milk, Lactose, Milk Fat, Soy Lecithin, ...

What is the crunchy part of a Twix? ›

What is the crunchy thing in a Twix bar? The crunchy part in a homemade Twix bar recipe is a shortbread cookie! It's the perfect balance and texture to the offset the sweet chocolate and gooey caramel.

What is the artificial flavor in Twix? ›

The artificial flavor in the milk chocolate is likely vanillin and there's a little bit of artificial flavoring used elsewhere—otherwise this is a decent real food showing for processed, high-markup candy.

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