Well, I hope everyone has dental insurance because today we are going to be sharing our first ever hard candy recipe. That’s right we got a real cavity-inducing treat that every one of your friends with a sweet-tooth is guaranteed to love. So what exactly are we making? Well, it’s none other than my mom’s old fashioned recipe for chocolate-covered toffee.
It’s really one of the easiest candies one can make at home. It requires no special tools or techniques, just a large pot a couple of baking sheets, and a spoon to stir with. Ingredients wise all you need is butter and some shelf-stable ingredients that should be readily available. And best of all it should only take you about 15 to 20 minutes to make the whole thing. So if you’re ready to get your Willy Wonka on and make some candy then let’s get into our toffee recipe.
Tips, Tricks & Suggestions
- While the toffee itself should be brittle and crunchy enough if you would like some additional crunch then try adding some more nuts to the top of the chocolate after step 5. My personal favorites are crushed walnuts or crushed hazelnuts.
- Make sure you use real butter, none of that margarine or parkay BS.
- Feel free to use any type of chocolate that you like, I especially like to mix it up. Also, it should go without saying that if you aren’t a fan of chocolate that you can omit it completely. The toffee will still taste lovely.
- This toffee recipe is great when wrapped up with our chocolate chip walnut cookies, and oatmeal cranberry cookies as gift baskets.
Moms Toffee Recipe
Prep time: 1 minute
Cook time: 15 minutes
Servings: 30 pieces
Ingredients
2 ½ Cups of almonds
2 Cups of butter
2 Cups of sugar
1 Teaspoon of vanilla extract
½ Teaspoon of salt
24 oz. of milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or white chocolate
Instructions
- Prep the baking sheet: Get out a large baking sheet and cover it with aluminum foil. Then pour out your almonds on to the foil so that it covers it.
- Get out a 4 to 6 quart-sized pot and slightly melt the butter in it. Then add the sugar, vanilla extract and salt to the same pot.
- Make the toffee mixture: Place the pot over high heat and stir the ingredients constantly until they melt and begin to boil.
Once it has come to a boil continue to stir/cook the ingredients for an additional 7 to 9 minutes or until it takes on a caramel color.
- Pour the hot toffee mixture over the almonds covered baking sheet and smooth it out with a spatula.
- Melt the chocolate over the toffee: Place the chocolate over the hot toffee and then cover it with another baking sheet so that the chocolate can melt.
Once the chocolate has melted use a spatula to smooth it out over the toffee in an even layer.
- Let it cool in your fridge for at least 2 hours.
- Break up the toffee: Take out a knife and gently stab the toffee so that it breaks up into pieces.
You can also try to cut these into square shapes. However, I find that it doesn’t always work out so keep it easy on yourself. You will also be left with a bunch of leftover crumbs that are great for saving and pouring over ice cream.
- Enjoy!
Moms Toffee Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 ½ Cups of almonds
- 2 Cups of butter
- 2 Cups of sugar
- 1 Teaspoon of vanilla extract
- ½ Teaspoon of salt
- 24 oz. of milk chocolate dark chocolate, or white chocolate
Instructions
- Prep the baking sheet: Get out a large baking sheet and cover it with aluminum foil. Then pour out your almonds on to the foil so that it covers it.
- Get out a 4 to 6 quart-sized pot and slightly melt the butter in it. Then add the sugar, vanilla extract and salt to the same pot.
- Make the toffee mixture: Place the pot over high heat and stir the ingredients constantly until they melt and begin to boil. Once it has come to a boil continue to stir/cook the ingredients for an additional 7 to 9 minutes or until it takes on a caramel color.
- Pour the hot toffee mixture over the almonds covered baking sheet and smooth it out with a spatula.
- Melt the chocolate over the toffee: Place the chocolate over the hot toffee and then cover it with another baking sheet so that the chocolate can melt. Once the chocolate has melted use a spatula to smooth it out over the toffee in an even layer.
- Let it cool in your fridge for at least 2 hours.
- Break up the toffee: Take out a knife and gently stab the toffee so that it breaks up into pieces. You can also try to cut these into square shapes, however, I find that it doesn’t always work out so keep it easy on yourself. You will also be left with a bunch of leftover crumbs that are great for saving and pouring over ice cream.
- Enjoy!
Inspiration from other blogs
From Sugar Spun Run
From Mom On Timeout
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