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Old-Fashioned Toffee

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Course: Confections
Cuisine: American
Keyword: christmasrecipes, toffee
Servings: 24
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Equipment

  • Heavy-duty dutch oven
  • candy thermometer
  • 2 quarter sheet pans

Ingredients

  • 1 c. salted butter
  • 1 c. unsalted butter
  • 2 c. superfine sugar
  • ½ c. nuts (pecans) chopped fine
  • 4 milk or semi-sweet chocolate bars

Instructions

PREP

  • Set out 2 quarter sheet pans, pre-chop the nuts.

MAKE CANDY

  • Place butter and sugar in a heavy-duty sauce pan. Stir once in a while until it starts to reach high heat. Right after you stir the mixture, dip silicone pastry brush in water and run around the side of pan to dissolve the sugar crystals.
  • Continue to stir and watch closely as candy thermometer registers between 295-300°.
  • Remove from heat and pour immediately onto the 2 pans.
  • Add 2 broken up chocolate bars over each pan of the toffee and cover with foil. Let melt for a few minutes. Remove foil and spread melted chocolate with off-set spatula.
  • Sprinkle on nuts and put pans in the fridge to set for a few hours or overnight.
  • Break up toffee and store in a container.