Butter Toffee Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a shallow baking pan, toast almonds until golden brown, 5-10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool. Pulse chocolate in a food processor until finely ground (do not overprocess); transfer to a bowl. Pulse almonds in food processor until coarsely chopped. Sprinkle 1 cup almonds over bottom of a greased 15x10x1-in. pan. Sprinkle with 1 cup chocolate., In a heavy saucepan, combine butter, sugar and water. Cook over medium heat until a candy thermometer reads 290° (soft-crack stage), stirring occasionally., Immediately pour mixture over almonds and chocolate in pan. Sprinkle with remaining chocolate and almonds. Refrigerate until set; break into pieces.

Steps:

• Pop popcorn in an air popper according to manufacturer's instructions.
• Combine sugar, corn syrup, butter, and water in a heavy saucepan over medium heat; cook until toffee syrup temperature reaches 280 degrees F (138 degrees C) using a candy thermometer, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract.
• Mix toffee syrup with popcorn in a large bowl until evenly combined.

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.

Steps:

• In a large heavy bottomed saucepan, combine the butter, sugar and salt. Cook over medium heat, stirring until the butter is melted. Allow to come to a boil, and cook until the mixture becomes a dark amber color, and the temperature has reached 285 degrees F (137 degrees C). Stir occasionally.
• While the toffee is cooking, cover a large baking sheet with aluminum foil or parchment paper.
• As soon as the toffee reaches the proper temperature, pour it out onto the prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle the chocolate over the top, and let it set for a minute or two to soften. Spread the chocolate into a thin even layer once it is melted. Sprinkle the nuts over the chocolate, and press in slightly. Putting a plastic bag over your hand will minimize the mess.
• Place the toffee in the refrigerator to chill until set. Break into pieces, and store in an airtight container.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Sift together flour and baking soda.
• Cream together butter, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla.
• Add eggs one at a time.
• Add toffee pieces to mixture.
• Mix creamed mixture and dry mixture together.
• Use rounded tablespoon to measure dough.
• Place dough at least 2 inches apart on baking sheet.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
• *If you have time to chill the dough before baking, do so! You will have cookies that are crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside.

Steps:

• Rub the top of a microwavable mixing bowl with (extra) butter. Place butter into bowl. Pour sugar directly on butter. Add salt and water.
• Cook approximately 7-8 minutes (sometimes I have seen some microwaves take up to 12 minutes). Start watching at this point so as not to overcook. Candy is done when it's the color of a Heath bar or brown sugar.
• Pour mixture over sliced almonds on a buttered cookie sheet. Don't scrape the bowl! Cool!
• Top with melted chocolate (and more almonds if you wish) and let cool some more.
• Break into pieces and serve. (I use a regular table knife -- just be sure not to cut into your cookie sheet!) Enjoy!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Sift together flour and baking soda. Cream together butter, sugar, and vanilla. Add eggs one at a time. Add toffee pieces to mixture. Mix creamed mixture and dry mixture together. Use rounded tablespoon to measure dough. Place dough at least 2 inches apart on baking sheet. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.

Steps:

• Line a 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan with foil; grease the foil with 1-1/2 teaspoons butter. Sprinkle 1 cup pecans into prepared pan; set aside., In a small heavy saucepan, combine the brown sugar, water and the remaining butter. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Cook without stirring until a candy thermometer reads 290° (soft-crack stage). Remove from the heat; stir in vanilla and baking soda. Pour into prepared pan (do not scrape sides of saucepan). , Sprinkle with chocolate; spread with a knife when melted. Sprinkle with the remaining pecans. Let stand until set, about 1 hour. Break into pieces.

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.

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.

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, flavors, salt and baking soda.
• Add the egg and beat until fluffy.
• Add the flour and stir until well-blended.
• Stir in bits and/or chips, and the nuts, if you're using them.
• Drop the dough by generous tablespoonfuls onto ungreased or parchment-lined baking sheets (our tablespoon cookie scoop, works well here), leaving about 2 inches between cookies.
• Bake the cookies in a preheated 375°F oven for 10 to 12 minutes; 10 minutes will give you chewier cookies, 12 minutes crisper.
• Note: For chewy,"bendable" cookies, remove them from the oven while they still look"under-cooked" in the center; for crisp, crunchy cookies, bake until evenly golden brown.
• Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheets before transferring them to racks to cool completely.