Salted Almond Chocolate Covered Toffee

An easy, no-fail English toffee recipe topped with chocolate, almonds and coarse-grain salt. 

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Not to sound like that annoying Facebook friend who loves to “humbly” brag about how much she accomplished in a day… but… y’all, I had it going on today. I was on fiyah! [said or sung in your best Adam Levine or Alicia Keys voice – either will work]

I actually had a Facebook post typed out to send to y’all about what I’d done all day but when I read over it I was like dang, heifer, brag much? so I deleted it. I was just feeling so great about having accomplished so much in one day!

Anyway, one of the things I did today was make this toffee! 

Candy making has always scared me a bit because:

1. I can never find my candy thermometer and I’m not even sure if it works right
2. It usually requires perfectly coating something in melted chocolate and I do not (repeat: do NOT) have the patience or attention to detail for that, and
3. There are just too many things that have to be perfect – there’s not much freelancing in candy making.

But this recipe has never failed me! I don’t use the candy thermometer. I just cook it until it’s the color toffee is supposed to be. It doesn’t get darker or lighter after you pour it out so as soon as you see the color you’re after, you’re done. 

I tried to be pretty detailed when I wrote this out because there are some things you have to get right but don’t let this scare you. Just read the recipe completely before you get started and you’ll be fine!

Recipe for Salted Almond Chocolate Covered Toffee

Salted Almond Chocolate Covered Toffee

Yield: 18-20 Servings

Author: Mandy Rivers | South Your Mouth

Prep time: 5 MinCook time: 15 MinTotal time: 20 Min

An easy, no-fail English toffee recipe topped with chocolate, almonds and coarse-grain salt.

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) real, salted butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 12-oz. bag semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/3 cup chopped roasted almonds
• Coarse-grain or kosher salt

Instructions

1. Heat butter, sugar, vanilla and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a heavy-bottom saucepan over medium heat until butter is melted; stirring slowly (see note) with a wooden spoon. Cook and slowly stir until mixture starts to boil. Once boiling, continue cooking and slowly stirring for approximately 7 minutes or until toffee is light brown in color or 290 degrees on a candy thermometer.
2. Without scraping the bottom of the saucepan, pour the toffee into the prepared baking pan. Using a rubber spatula, spread hot toffee evenly into pan. You’ll have to work quickly as the toffee will start to set up.
3. Wait one minute then sprinkle chocolate chips evenly over hot toffee. Wait another 1-2 minutes for the chocolate to get soft and become pliable then spread the chocolate evenly over toffee.
4. Sprinkle chopped almonds over melted chocolate. Sprinkle a little coarse-grain salt over almonds.
5. Let toffee rest, uncovered, at room temperature until chocolate is set. Once everything is completely cool, you can refrigerate for 10-15 minutes to help the chocolate set more quickly. Not longer than this or not until everything is completely cool or the chocolate could form condensation.
6. Once everything is completely firm, lift up on the aluminum foil to remove the toffee slab from the pan. Break toffee into pieces using a sharp knife (the more imperfect, the better, I think!). Store toffee at room temperature in an airtight container.

Notes

• You can’t stir this too fast or the toffee could “break” and the oil in the butter could separate from the mixture. You want to be sure to scrape the bottom of the pan while you’re stirring so that no “hot spots” develop on the bottom of the pan. If it seems your toffee is “breaking” stop stirring for 15-second intervals to let the toffee come back together.
• Save all the little broken bits of toffee in a zip-top bag to add to the next batch of cookies you make. I swear these little bits are magical in chocolate chip cookies!!
• Feel free to omit the almonds or use pecans, walnuts or peanuts if preferred.

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