Toffee Recipes

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Welcome to the Recipes section of our site. We've gathered together several recipes, plus an overview of toffee-making basics, for you to try at home. The xxx and yyy recipes are the easiest; try the aaa and bbb recipes when you're feeling more adventurous. Toffee is a lot of fun to make, and even more fun to share. Dive on in!

Toffee Basics

Butter toffee is a confection made by combining sugar, water, and butter, then heating the mixture until it reaches 290°F — 300°F, right in the middle of the soft-crack and hard-crack candy stages. The mixture is then poured or spread into a flat pan and left to cool until it hardens. You can optionally mix roasted nuts into the candy mixture as it's cooking, or cover one or both sides with dark chocolate and sprinkle in chopped nuts, as we do with our toffee with walnuts.

Tools

You'll need a saucepan large enough to contain the boiling sugar mixture, and a candy thermometer to know when cooking is complete. If you don't have a candy thermometer, you can also use the method of dropping a bit of the sugar mixture into cold water and watching what it does, though that will take more practice.

A baking sheet with edges holds the cooked toffee mixture. Use a spatula or spreading knife to spread the mixture around the pan. A bit of cooking spray will keep the toffee from sticking to the pan and spreader knife. You may also need space in your refrigerator to help set the finished toffee before breaking it into pieces and serving it.

More Information

Wikipedia has a short toffee article with a number of links, and an interesting article on candy in general. About.com has a good tutorial on toffee-making, with pictures and extended descriptions.