What Are Butterscotch chips and How Can I Use Them?
Here's everything worth knowing about butterscotch chips and how to pick them, what they are, how to store them, and what to use instead, plus 89 recipes to cook tonight.
What are butterscotch chips?
Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter, although other ingredients such as corn syrup, cream, vanilla, and salt are part of some recipes.
The ingredients for butterscotch are similar to toffee, but for butterscotch the sugar is boiled to the soft crack stage, and not hard crack as with toffee. Butterscotch sauce is often made into a syrup, which is used as a topping for ice cream (particularly sundaes).
The term butterscotch is also often used for the flavour of brown sugar and butter together even where actual confection butterscotch is not involved, e.g. butterscotch pudding.
It is often used as a flavour for items such as dessert sauce, pudding, and biscuits (cookies). To that end, it can be bought in "butterscotch chips", made with hydrogenated (solid) fats so as to be similar for baking use to chocolate chips.
There are also individually wrapped, translucent sometimes yellow colored hard candies with an artificial butterscotch flavour, which is dissimilar to actual butterscotch.
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 oz (28g)Where found
Butterscotch chips are usually found in the baking supplies section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.
Food group
Butterscotch chips are a member of the Sweets US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.
How much do butterscotch chips weigh?
| Amount | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 ounce | 28 grams |
| 3 pieces | 16 grams |
Related
Sweets
| In Chinese: | 奶油芯片 | |
| British (UK) term: | ||
| en français: | pépites de caramel | |
| en español: | chips de mantequilla |
Recipes using butterscotch chips
There are 89 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Oatmeal Scotches
Oatmeal scotches with butterscotch chips, brown sugar, cinnamon, and rolled oats. Bake 7 minutes for chewy or 12 minutes for crispy, your choice in a versatile oatmeal cookie.
Triple Rich Brownies
Triple layer brownies stack a fudgy pecan brownie base, a vanilla buttercream middle, and a glossy chocolate drizzle on top. Bake-bar territory, made at home.
Delicious Chocolate Butterscotch Brownies
Chewy chocolate brownies topped with a butterscotch chip drizzle. Lighter brownies made with an egg-and-egg-white blend, finished with a piped baggie drizzle for elegant butterscotch ribbons.
Beverly's Blond Brownies
Thick, chewy blondies with melted butter and a full pound of brown sugar, studded with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, and pecans. Baked in a jelly roll pan for crispy edges on every piece.
Cheese Crunchers
A crunchy crust with chocolate and butterscotch topped with a soft and fluffy cream cheese filling.
Peanut Butter Double Chip Cookies
Peanut butter double chip cookies stir chunky peanut butter, salted peanuts, semi-sweet chocolate chips, and butterscotch chips into a tender brown sugar dough. Three textures in every bite.
Blonde Pecan Brownies
Blond brownies with a combination of butterscotch chips, chocolate chips studded with pecans.
Billion Dollar Chocolate Bar
Billion dollar chocolate bars, a homemade candy bar in four layers: a chocolate-peanut butter base, fluffy peanut nougat, gooey caramel, and a chocolate top. Like a candy-shop Snickers, made at home.
Billion Dollar Chocolate Bar
Billion dollar chocolate bars, a homemade candy bar in four layers: a chocolate-peanut butter base, fluffy peanut nougat, gooey caramel, and a chocolate top. Like a candy-shop Snickers, made at home.
Surfer Squares
Butterscotch chips, chocolate chips, marshmallows and nuts. Guarenteed to satisfy every sweet tooth.
Better Butterscotch Brownies
Chewy butterscotch brownies packed with brown sugar and topped with melty butterscotch chips. One bowl, 15 minutes of prep, and 20 bars of golden, caramel-scented bliss.
Easy Pecan Pie
Easy pecan pie with butterscotch chips folded into a classic Karo syrup filling. The Thanksgiving and Christmas pie that bakes up glossy, gooey, and dotted with caramel pockets.
Oatmeal-Bran Cookie Bars
I recently came across another way to use up some of those cartons of oats and bags of bran spilling out of my pantry. Brandi of Bran Appetit posted an intriguing recipe for Brandi's Cookie Bars. I used her recipe with a few changes to make cookie bars of my own. Please visit Brandi's blog for the original recipe. And if you're a fan of oatmeal cookies and chocolate, make these now! Oatmeal-Bran Cookie Bars (adapted from Bran Appetit)
Toll House Oatmeal Scotchies
A delightful twist on the classic oatmeal cookie. These tasty treats combine the wholesome goodness of oats with the rich, buttery flavor of butterscotch chips. The result is a chewy, sweet, and satisfying cookie perfect for any occasion.
No-Bake Almond Chocolate Cookies
No-bake almond chocolate cookies blend semi-sweet and butterscotch chips with vanilla wafer crumbs and sour cream, then roll the truffle-style balls in toasted almonds. Made in 50 minutes.
Honey Queen Kisses
Honey queen kisses drop cookies with a full cup of honey, butterscotch chips, flaked coconut, and crisp rice cereal for crunch. A chewy, crunchy, golden cookie with no refined sugar.
Litterbox Cookies
Halloween gag cookies rolled in Grape-Nuts and served from a clean litter box with a scoop. Chocolate and gingerbread dough logs shaped like, well, you know. Harmless fun.
Miniature Candy Bars
Homemade miniature candy bars with a vanilla-almond fondant center sandwiched between layers of chocolate, butterscotch, and chopped peanuts. No-bake and freezer-friendly.
Sugar Doodles
Sugar Doodles are chewy triple-chip cookies loaded with butterscotch, chocolate, and peanut butter chips, then rolled in sparkly rainbow sugar. A fun, easy cookie recipe kids love to help make!
Killer Triple Chip Brownies
Triple chip brownies loaded with semi-sweet chocolate, milk chocolate, and butterscotch chips in a fudgy bittersweet chocolate batter with walnuts. Six cups of chips total. These are not messing around.
Two Toners
Layered no-bake candy with a butterscotch-walnut bottom, mini marshmallow middle, and a chocolate chip topping. Make-ahead, sliceable, and seriously sweet.
