English Toffee
English Toffee is a buttery, chocolate confection laden with walnuts and broken into bite-size delectable pieces. Butter and sugar are cooked together until it caramelizes, then poured on top of chopped walnuts and smothered with a layer of dark chocolate.
English Toffee is perfect for holiday treat bags. Once you bless someone with this delicious candy, they’ll be hoping for it year after year!
How to make English toffee
Making toffee is really pretty simple once you understand the technique. My advice is this: be patient, cook the toffee low and slow, and use a candy thermometer to take the guess work out of the equation!
- Before you begin, get all the ingredients ready. Toffee isn’t difficult, but it does require your full attention once you start cooking.
- Lightly butter a baking sheet with a lip.
- Finely chop the walnuts and spread a thin layer on the baking sheet.
- Using a heavy-bottom pan, melt butter and sugar over low heat, stirring gently until the sugar is completely dissolved.
- Continue cooking and stirring gently until the toffee heats to between 280 and 300 degrees (soft crack stage).
- Gently pour the mixture over the walnut and spread out evenly.
- Place Hershey bars on top and let sit for 30 seconds.
- Using an offset spatula, gently spread the chocolate bars into a thin layer covering the caramel layer.
- Sprinkle with more chopped walnuts and let cool completely before breaking into small pieces.
For years, a vendor brought me a small bag of homemade toffee as a Christmas thank you gift. I will unashamedly admit that I hid it away in my desk drawer so that I didn’t have to share! This candy is addictive and is a delicious indulgence.
English Toffee
Recipe details
- 16 Servings
- Prep time: 15 Minutes Cook time: 15 Minutes Total time: 30 min
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What a terrific mouth-watering toffee recipe for the perfect holiday gift. Thank you so much for sharing this!