Golden English Toffee Recipes

ENGLISH TOFFEE

Steps:

• Butter a 10x15 inch jellyroll pan.
• Melt butter in a heavy skillet over medium heat. Stir in sugar and water. Bring to a boil and add almonds. Cook, stirring constantly until nuts are toasted and the sugar is golden. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan; do not spread.
• Immediately sprinkle the chocolate chips on top. Let stand for a minute, then spread the chocolate over the top. Let cool completely, then break into pieces.

ENGLISH TOFFEE

Steps:

• In heavy saucepan, combine butter, sugar, water, and salt.
• Cook to hard-crack stage (300°F) stirring with a WOODEN SPOON constantly and watching carefully. Do not try a plastic spoon, it will melt into your delicious candy!
• Immediately pour into ungreased 13"x9" pan.
• Cool until hard.
• Melt chocolate over hot, but not boiling water.
• Spread over toffee; sprinkle with nuts, pressing them into chocolate.
• Let stand 2-3 hours or chill 30 minutes.
• Break into bite-size pieces.

EASY, EASY ENGLISH TOFFEE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, melt SALTED butter on medium heat. Do not burn butter. It needs to stay yellow. (NOTE: I had many batches fail and separate until I figured out, upon investigation, that you MUST use SALTED butter. I think it has to do with a chemical reaction.).
• **Tip** Bring out a jar of peanut butter and turn it upside down near the skillet to use ONLY as a color guide to know when the mixture is done.
• Add sugar and stir until incorporated (sugar does not need to be "melted" into the butter, just no longer dry) Edited to add on 12/25/16, the temperature MUST STAY CONSTANT or the butter and sugar MAY separate during the final stages. Too high and your butter will burn, too low and you'll be stirring forever!
• **At no time can you walk away at this point, you must keep stirring so that the butter will not burn. It's very crucial.
• Add water, pouring it all over the pan. The butter/sugar will get bubbly and frothy -- keep constantly stirring -- stirring low and slow -- I use a rubber spatula. As you stir, angle your spatula down as low (level to the pan) as you can to have few air bubbles.
• I timed it, as you are stirring the yellow, sugary, melted, bubbly butter, at the 4 minute mark add the slivered almonds. Keep stirring.
• Stir continuously and slowly in a small circular motion bringing the outside mixture edges to the center as the sides will tend to cook faster than the middle. It will slowly begin to caramelize and toast up -- about 6 minutes more.
• Cook this mixture until it is the color of the inverted peanut butter jar.
• **Important** It will brown fast in the end, so don't let it get too dark or let the almonds get really burned).
• Pour into a 9 X 13 pan. (you could use disposable aluminum pans also). with your rubber spatula, spread the mixture quickly to the edges before it starts to harden on you.
• Let cool completely, remove from pan and pat off any extra butter from both sides with paper towels.
• Place on wax or parchment paper.
• Topping:.
• Microwave chocolate for 1 minute on high. (be mindful that every microwave is different and you must watch your chocolate closely so that it won't overcook). If a few seconds more are needed to melt completely, do so in small increments. You can also use a double boiler to melt chocolate -- I do prefer to do it this way.
• Coat toffee with chocolate (like frosting) and top with slivered almonds. I only cover one side but you can do both if desired.
• Lightly press down almonds to make sure they stick to the chocolate.
• Cool on the counter for at least 30 minutes, then put the pan into the refrigerator for 2 hours (You can stack multiple batches on top of each other as long as the chocolate is pretty solid).
• Break into pieces after it has hardened and store in a covered container.
• Variations: Use different kinds of chips. (mint, white, dark, milk chocolate).

GOLDEN ENGLISH TOFFEE

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in large saucepan.
• Bring to a boil, stirring until all dissolved, then boil without stirring until the mixture is dark golden.
• Test by spooning a few drops into a cup of cold water.
• The toffee is done when it hardens at once into a crisp ball.
• Take off heat and pour into a flat oiled pan to make a layer about 1/2 inch thick.
• When toffee is tepid, score into squares, and when cool break with a hammer and store in an airtight container.

ENGLISH TOFFEE

Steps:

• Sprinkle 1/3 cup of chopped almonds over buttered 9" x 13" pan.
• Place butter in a heavy skillet, add sugar and mix throughly.
• Bring to a boil over medium heat, STIRRING CONSTANTLY with a wooden spoon.
• Continue to stir until candy thermometer reaches 285 degrees F.
• Pour over almonds.
• Arrange chocolate pieces over the mixture.
• As chocolate melts, spread evenly over mixture and sprinkle with remaining 1/3 cup of almonds.
• Allow to cool completely and for chocolate to set, overnight.
• Use a dinner knife to break into pieces.
• Store in an airtight container.

PECAN ENGLISH TOFFEE

Steps:

• butter a 9x13 baking dish and scatter pecan halves evenly across the bottom.
• in heavy sauce pan, melt butter, add sugar and bring to a boil.
• Boil approximately 12 minutes or until candy reaches 290°.
• Add chopped pecans and stir to mix, then pour over halves in backing dish.
• Place candy bars on top, allow to melt and then smooth over. ( i like to use high quality chocolate, but Hersheys will do).
• Chill thoroughly , turn pan over, dump on counter and break up by whacking with heavy spoon.

GHIRARDELLI ENGLISH TOFFEE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Toast the chopped pecans on a baking sheet in the oven for 6 to 8 minutes, or until fragrant.
• With heavy-duty aluminum foil, form a 10-inch square shell with 1-inch high sides.
• Place the foil shell on a baking sheet, and set aside.
• In a heavy saucepan, cook the butter, sugar, water, and salt over medium heat until the temperature reaches 305F (hard-crack stage), stirring occasionally (watch closely after it reaches 290F because the temperature will increase rapidly).
• When the mixture becomes dark golden brown, immediately remove the pan from the heat.
• Stir in the vanilla extract.
• Pour the mixture into the foil shell. It will spread but may not reach the edges of the square.
• Cool at room temperature for 45 minutes, or until hard.
• Melt the chocolate according to instructions on the side of package. Spread melted chocolate over the cooled toffee, and sprinkle with the pecans, pressing lightly to set pecans into chocolate.
• Let set at room temperature 1 hour, or until the chocolate is set.
• Break toffee into pieces. Store covered at room temperature for up to 1 month.

ENGLISH TOFFEE

Steps:

• Boil all ingredients to 290 degrees.
• Butter 9x13 pan and spread with english walnuts.
• Pour hot mixture over nuts and crumble hershey bars over. cool and it will crackle.