Homemade Butter Toffee
Cook Time
30minutes
Cook Time
30minutes
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Combine all the ingredients (save for the salt) in a deep pot and apply gentle heat until the butter is melted. Then mix and turn up to medium heat.
  2. If you have a deep enough pot for your batch size (this recipe scales nicely) you won’t need to do much stirring – but if you are maxing out your pot you’ll need to stir to keep things from boiling over.
  3. You’ll observe the boiling vigor will moderate and the mixture will start to take on a caramel colour. At this point you’ll want to start periodically dipping a metal spoon into the mix and cooling small samples to assess the consistency of the mix when cooled. In this way you can choose where to arrest the change as the mix to go from soft to chewy to hard. I usually like to hit somewhere in the chewy hard range.
  4. When you’ve hit the desired consistency pour out the mass into prepared containers. I really like using silicon baking pans or sheets for this task, but buttered pans will also do the trick. I tend to look to achieve about 1/4″ thickness in my finished product.
  5. Cool and cut or break into pieces as appropriate for the hardness you’ve achieved. Try not to eat it all in one go.