How to Make Toffee

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  • Making Toffee Tips

    • Do not substitute the butter with anything else.
    • The toffee will become extremely hot, so use caution while cooking.
    • Soak the cooking pot and all utensils immediately after use.

  • This page explains how to make toffee and guides you step by step through the process of making English toffee. Preparing toffee is not overly challenging, but it does require about thirty minutes to complete. Patience and a good candy thermometer are essential.


    • Buttery, crunchy, delicious toffee is a popular candy that requires only a few ingredients to make.About.com: Toffee In this guide to how to make toffee, you will learn the steps needed to whip up a batch of delectable traditional toffee.

  • Step 1: Gather Toffee Ingredients and Equipment

  • Ingredients

  • Equipment

    • 1 large stockpan with a heavy bottom
    • 1 wooden spoon or heat-proof plastic spatual
    • 1 candy thermometer Shanghai Wisdom Industries: Candy Thermometer
    • 1 cookie sheet or jellyroll pan with a lip around the edge
    • 1 heavy metal spoon or butter knife
    • 1 flat-bottomed drinking glass

  • Step 2: Cook the Toffee

    • This step will take about twenty minutes, mainly because butter has a high water content which needs to be boiled away. Cooking for Engineers: English Toffee Patience and time are needed to make a proper batch of toffee candy.Baking911: Candy Toffee It is vital that you stir the toffee constantly as it is cooking. Be careful not to hit the candy thermometer as it may shatter.
    1. Put butter and sugar into the stockpot
    2. Mix together over medium to medium low heat until the butter has melted and combined with the sugar.
    3. Clip the candy thermometer onto the pot. The tip of the thermometer must touch the toffee; however, it must not touch the bottom of the pan.YouTube Video: Signature Sweet Shoppe Presents How to Make Toffee (Time: 9:59) Doing so will not let you accurately judge the candy's temperature.
    4. Stir the toffee over medium/medium low heat and let it cook.
    5. As the toffee heats up, it will bubble, foam, and eventually turn brown.
    6. The toffee will eventually reach the hard crack stage. Science of Cooking: The Cold Water Candy Test It needs to be heated to just under 300 degrees Fahrenheit.Allrecipes: [1]Office of Legislation and Public Affairs: Temperature Conversion
    7. When the toffee reaches just under 300 F and has turned light brown, it is done cooking.

  • Step 3: Set the Toffee

    • At this stage, the toffee is extremely hot and glutinous. Be particularly careful when handling it!
    1. Pour the toffee into the buttered cookie sheet.
    2. With the back of the spoon or spatula, gently spread it around the cookie sheet until it is even across the pan.
    3. Let the toffee cool for an hour .

  • Step 4: Break up the Toffee

    • Toffee is a hard candy, so it is broken up into pieces instead of cut or sliced. Use the end of a heavy spoon or butter knife to break it up.
    1. Cover toffee with a clean dishtowel.
    2. Stretch the dishtowel tightly over the cookie sheet.
    3. Hold ends of towel with both hands, one on each end of the sheet.
    4. Flip the cookie sheet over and lay toffee on the counter.
    5. If the toffee is still attached to the pan, hit the pan on the counter until the toffee comes loose.
    6. Break the toffee into pieces, starting at the center and working outwards.YouTube Video: Signature Sweet Shoppe Presents How to Make Toffee (Time: 9:59)
    7. For best results, store toffee in the fridge.

  • Conclusion

    • Toffee makes a perfect gift for the holidays, a birthday, a bridal shower, and just about any gift-giving occasion you can think of. Try creating a batch of toffee the next time you want to show your appreciation to someone. Since toffee is so rich, a few pieces are more than enough, so you can get quite a number of servings out of just one batch.

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