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

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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!

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.

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.

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.

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. MAY CONTAIN: ALMOND, BARLEY, HAZELNUT, OATS.

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.

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.

According to Twix themselves, Left Twix is described as smooth caramel on top of a crunchy cookie that is enveloped in creamy chocolate. As for Right Twix, the candy is described as chewy caramel on top of a crisp cookie, cloaked in velvety chocolate.

(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.

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? ›

What kind of cookie is in a Twix bar? Twix bars are made with a shortbread base. So that's exactly why this recipe had to be shortbread Twix cookies. The base is super buttery and made with minimal ingredients (no leavening agents or eggs).

Left Twix has a drizzled caramel. Right Twix has a cascaded caramel. They may have different packaging. Personally, I think they taste the same, though the assumption is that right Twix should taste a little more caramelly.

In the UK, Twix is simply called "Twix." The name of the chocolate bar remains the same in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Twix is a popular confectionery product produced by Mars, Inc., and it consists of a biscuit (cookie) base topped with caramel and coated in milk chocolate.

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).

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.

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 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.

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.

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.