Buttery English Toffee Food

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.

JIM BAILEY

Steps:

• 1 Spray an 8-inch square pan with nonstick cooking spray lightly. Sprinkle 1 cup crushed shredded wheat in the bottom of the pan, shaking to evenly distribute; set aside. 2 Place the brown sugar and butter in a medium saucepan over high heat. 3 When butter has melted, reduce heat to medium, stir well and let boil for 8 minutes. 4 You will notice the mixture will form large bubbles while vigorously boiling and start changing color as well. 5 At the 6 minute mark, or so, you will notice the toffee still boiling but it will resemble lava, the top bubbling but the remainder of the liquid remaining still as it is thickening. 6 Stir well (with a wooden spoon if you have one). Immediately pour toffee evenly into prepared pan, scraping sides to get all of it. 7 Sprinkle chocolate chips over the toffee, then the remainder of the crushed shredded wheat. Lift pan up a couple inches and gently drop on the counter to even out. 8 Loosely cover with a baking pan so chocolate chips melt and allow to cool for 15 minutes. 9 Remove baking pan, cut into desired­sized pieces and completely cool in the refrigerator, about 1 hour. 10 Remove, invert on a platter and break apart to immediately enjoy. 11 *I used maple­brown sugar flavored shredded wheat and it was absolutely perfect. Use plain or your favorite flavor or brand you desire.

BUTTERY ENGLISH TOFFEE

Steps:

• In 4 quart saucepan, heat butter, sugar, water and vanilla to boiling over medium heat, stirring constantly.
• Cook, stirring constantly, until temperature reaches 260 degrees on a candy thermometer.
• Add chopped nuts; continue cooking to 290 degrees, stirring constantly.
• Pour onto buttered 15 x 10 x 1 inch jelly roll pan.
• Cool 2 minutes; sprinkle with chocolate pieces.
• Cover pan with a cookie sheet to soften chocolate; spread over candy.
• Sprinkle with ground nuts.
• Cool completely; break into pieces with knife.

ENGLISH TOFFEE

Steps:

• Place a piece of foil that is big enough to cover a 9 X 13 jelly roll pan (like a cookie sheet with sides).
• Spray the foil with cooking spray.
• Sprinkle pecan pieces evenly on foil.
• Melt butter, sugar (both the two cups and 1 tablespoon of sugar), Karo syrup, and water in pan on stovetop.
• Bring the mixture to a boil.
• Turn to medium heat and stir continuously until a candy thermometer says between 290 and 300 degrees or caramel in color.
• Pour mixture over the pecans.
• Spread evenly over the pecans.
• Evenly distribute chocolate chips over toffee.
• Let the chocolate chips melt on toffee for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Use fork or spoon to spread melted chocolate chips over toffee.
• Sprinkle 1 cup chopped walnuts on top of chocolate mixture.
• Refrigerate until chocolate is firm.
• Break toffee into pieces.
• Store in an airtight container.
• 30 minutes preparation and cooking time does not include the time it takes to cool and the chocolate to harden on top.

ENGLISH TOFFEE

Steps:

• Combined butter, sugar and water in a heavy sauce pan.
• Cook stirring constantly to the hard crack stage or 300 degrees.
• Immedieately pur into a buttered 9x13 cake pan, spreading quickly.
• Cool When cooled break into pieces and dip into the dipping chocolate.
• Place on waxed paper to set up.
• Sprinkle with ground nuts.
• When set place in an air tight container.

EASY ENGLISH BUTTER TOFFEE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°.
• Butter a 13x9 baking pan.
• Arrange saltines right side up in a single layer in pan.
• Melt butter and sugar over medium heat.
• Bring to boil, boil 3 minutes stirring occasionally.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Pour over crackers, spread evenly with spatula.
• Bake for 5 minutes, if crackers move, rearrange with a fork.
• Cool for about 10 minutes.
• Sprinkle chocolate morsels over top.
• Let stand about 5 minutes the evenly spread over top.
• Cool completely, then cut in 2x1 inch bars.
• Place a pecan half over each piece.
• Store in refrigerator.

COFFEE FLAVORED ENGLISH BUTTER TOFFEE

Steps:

• Prepare 9 by13 inch pan by lining the inside with aluminum foil or parchment paper.
• Melt butter over medium heat in a heavy 2 to 3 quart saucepan.
• Stir in sugar, corn syrup and espresso.
• Cook over medium heat stirring constantly until sugar is dissolved and mixture comes to a boil.
• Clip on candy thermometer and continue to stir occasionally until temperature reaches 195°F (hard crack stage).
• Pour mixture into prepared pan.
• Sprinkle with chocolate chips, wait 2 minutes then spread chocolate evenly over candy Sprinkle nuts over chocolate, shaking dish side to side to coat.
• Gently press nuts into chocolate.
• Let stand at room temperature to cool complete, break into pieces.
• Store in airtight container.