Almond Toffee Bars Recipes

Steps:

• Cream 3/4 cup butter and sugar; beat in egg yolk and extracts, mixing well.
• Blend in flour and salt.
• Spread dough evenly onto bottom of ungreased 13x9x2-inch baking pan.
• Bake at 350°F for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
• Melt chocolate in double boiler over simmering water.
• Remove from heat and add remaining 1 tablespoon butter.
• Beat until chocolate is glossy.
• Spread over baked crust and sprinkle with almonds.
• Cool to allow chocolate to set.
• Cut into bars.

Steps:

• Position rack in center of oven and preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Spread nuts on a baking tray and bake until toasted, 10 to 15 minutes, turning nuts after 7 to 8 minutes to ensure even toasting. Cool and chop coarsely. You should have about 2 cups. Set aside. Clean baking tray and coat with vegetable oil or vegetable oil spray. Spray both sides of the offset spatula with vegetable oil spray. Set aside.
• Make the toffee: Place sugar in a small deep saucepan. Add the corn syrup and water or rum and, over medium heat, bring to a boil. Let boil until large bubbles form on the surface, 3 to 4 minutes. Cover with foil and boil 5 minutes longer.
• Add the pieces of butter and continue cooking, uncovered, over medium heat until temperature reaches 300 degrees F on a candy thermometer, about 30 minutes. (The candy thermometer has a clip on the side that can be slid up or down. If desired, you can fit the thermometer on the side of the pan, making sure that it rests in the mixture, not on the bottom of the pan, so that the reading is accurate.) Remove from heat and immediately add the salt, baking soda, and 1 cup of chopped nuts. Stir with a wooden spoon until well combined.
• Pour the toffee mixture on the oiled baking tray and, using the offset spatula, spread the mixture out, making a block about 10 by 13 inches. The toffee will thicken very quickly, so work as fast as you can. When cool, blot some of the oil or vegetable spray with a clean towel.
• While the toffee mixture is cooling, melt the chocolate in a medium heatproof bowl placed over simmering water. When almost melted, turn off heat and let the chocolate continue to melt, stirring occasionally. Keep warm.
• When you can lift up the block of toffee, transfer it to a flat work surface or to a clean baking tray. Pour the melted chocolate over the toffee, spreading to cover the entire surface and, before the chocolate cools, sprinkle with the remaining chopped nuts. If the chocolate takes a long time to harden, refrigerate for about 10 minutes to set the chocolate.
• Return the block of toffee to the work surface and break up into pieces approximately 1 to 1 1/2 inches wide. Then cut into smaller pieces, as desired. Use as needed.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F
• Grease sides of 13x9x2-inch baking pan.
• Beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Gradually add flour, beating until well blended.
• Press dough evenly into prepared pan.
• Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.
• Meanwhile, combine toffee bits and corn syrup in medium saucepan.
• Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until toffee is melted (about 10 to 12 minutes).
• Stir in 1/2 cup almonds and 1/2 cup coconut.
• Spread toffee mixture to within 1/4-inch of edges of crust.
• Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup almonds and remaining 1/4 cup coconut over top.
• Bake an additional 15 minutes or until bubbly.
• Cool completely in pan on wire rack.
• Cut into bars.

Steps:

• HEAT oven to 350 degrees F (325 degrees F for glass dish). Combine flour and sugar in medium bowl; cut in butter with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Press firmly into bottom of ungreased 13 x 9-inch baking pan.
• BAKE 15 minutes.
• COMBINE sweetened condensed milk, egg and almond extract in large bowl; mix well. Stir in toffee pieces and almonds. Spread mixture evenly over partially baked crust.
• BAKE an additional 25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool. Cut into bars.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a mixer, beat the butter, sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla. Gradually mix in flour, then salt, and continue beating until well blended, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary. Transfer batter to a 9 by 13-inch pan, and flatten out with a rubber spatula.
• Bake until slightly browned, about 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and immediately place squares of white chocolate on top, gently spreading with an off-set spatula or dull knife as they melt. Sprinkle with nuts and cranberries. Allow to set, about 15 minutes, and then cut into squares.

Steps:

• Position an oven rack in the middle of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Spray a 7 by 10 3/4-inch nonstick baking pan with vegetable cooking spray. Lay a 6 by 18-inch piece of parchment paper in the pan, allowing the excess paper to overhang the sides. Spray the parchment paper lightly with cooking spray.
• In a medium bowl, combine the cookie dough, 1/2 of the chopped chocolate-toffee candy pieces and vanilla extract. Using damp fingers, gently press the dough into the prepared pan. Using the tines of a fork, prick the dough all over. Bake for 12 to 14 minutes until the crust is lightly browned. Cool for 15 minutes.
• Place the chocolate chips and vegetable oil in a medium bowl. Place the bowl over a pan of simmering water and stir until the chocolate has melted. Cool the chocolate mixture for 10 minutes. Whisk in the mascarpone cheese until the mixture is smooth. Using a spatula, spread the chocolate mixture over the cooled crust. Sprinkle the remaining chocolate-toffee candy pieces and sliced almonds over the chocolate mixture. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours until the chocolate layer is firm.
• Peel off the parchment paper and cut into 1 1/2 by 2-inch bars. Serve at room temperature.
• *Cook's Note: To toast almonds, arrange in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F oven for 8 to 10 minutes until lightly browned.

Steps:

• Mix crust ingredients thoroughly.
• Press into bottom of ungreased 9x13 inch pan.
• Bake 10 minutes at 350°.
• Topping: Stir eggs into brown sugar and vanilla.
• Mix flour, baking powder and salt and stir into egg mixture.
• Mix in coconut and nuts.
• Bake at 350° for 25 minutes until topping is golden brown.
• Cool, cut into bars.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. and oil a large baking sheet.
• In a large baking pan spread almonds evenly and toast in middle of oven, stirring nuts halfway through toasting, until golden, about 10 minutes. In a 3-quart heavy saucepan bring butter, sugar, water, lemon juice, vanilla, and salt to a boil over moderate heat, stirring with a wooden spoon. Boil mixture, without stirring, swirling pan occasionally, until deep golden, about 12 minutes.
• Remove pan from heat and stir in two thirds almonds. Immediately pour toffee onto baking sheet and with an offset spatula spread in a thin layer. Carefully transfer baking sheet (it will be very hot) to a rack and cool toffee.
• Chop chocolate. In a double boiler or a small metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water melt chocolate, stirring until smooth. Pour chocolate over cooled toffee and evenly spread with offset spatula. Sprinkle toffee with remaining almonds. Chill toffee, uncovered, until firm, about 1 hour.
• Break toffee into 2-inch pieces of "bark." Bark keeps, layered between sheets of wax paper in an airtight container at cool room temperature or chilled, 1 week.

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees (second-lowest position).
• Line a 9 x 9-inch metal pan with foil (leaving an overhang of foil) butter or spray the foil with a non stick cooking spray.
• In a heavy-bottomed saucepan combine 1 cup chocolate chips, butter and 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate; stir over low heat until chocolates melt and the mixture is smooth; remove from heat and whisk in vanilla.
• Whisk in sugar then eggs and then flour.
• Add/mix in 1 cup toffee bits.
• Pour the batter into the pan.
• Bake bars for about 45 minutes, or until a toothpick or metal tester comes out with moist crumbs attached.
• Cool bars for 15 minutes (using a knife or metal spatula press down sides of edges to level top if needed).
• In a small saucepan bring the whipping cream to a simmer; add in remaining 1 cup chocolate chips and 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate, whisk until smooth.
• Pour the topping over the bars in the pan.
• Sprinkle with chopped toasted almonds and about 1/2 cup Skor toffee bits.
• Chill bars until cold (about 2 hours).
• Using the foil overhangs, lift the bars from the pan, fold down the foil sides, and cut into small squares.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Line a 9-by 9-inch baking pan with aluminum foil, allowing some extra at each end.
• Grease and flour the foil.
• Toast the almond pieces in a frying pan over medium-low heat, stirring frequently, until they begin to color and become fragrant, about 7 minutes.
• Pour them out of the pan and set aside.
• Chop the toffee bars into 1/2-inch pieces (if using snack-size bars, chop them in half).
• Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.
• In the large bowl of an electric mixer, combine the melted butter and brown sugar, breaking up any hard lumps of brown sugar.
• Beat in the egg, vanilla and almond extract.
• Beat in the flour mixture.
• Combine the toasted almonds, chopped toffee bars and chocolate chips, mixing well, then stir the mixture into the batter, stirring to coat all the mix-ins.
• Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and spread it evenly.
• Bake about 40 minutes (about 5 minutes longer in an 8-by 8-inch pan), until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• (If the toothpick comes out covered with chocolate, it hit a chocolate chip; try somewhere else.) A toothpick might come out apparently clean after about 30 minutes, but close examination would indicate it's wet.
• Some people might like the bars that way; they're certainly gooey, but they really aren't done.
• Cool at least an hour in the pan, lift out by the edges of the foil, peel away the foil (invert if necessary) and cut into serving pieces.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Blend in egg and vanilla. Add flour and salt; mix well. Press firmly onto bottom of greased 13x9-inch baking pan.
• Bake 30 min. or until edges are golden brown. Remove from oven. Immediately sprinkle with chocolate. Cover with aluminum foil; let stand 5 min. or until chocolate is softened.
• Spread chocolate evenly over crust; sprinkle with coconut and almonds. Cool slightly. Cut into 32 squares. Cool completely.