An English Toffee Tutorial

This English Toffee recipe has been in my family forever, and it's very good. 

I've tried to make toffee a bunch of times with great success and other times with no success at all. Pure and simple... I'm a terrible candy maker. Candy making is very dangerous. So you just have to take one step at a time and watch boiling sugar very closely.

Here's a tutorial on how to make toffee without burning the house down.

English Toffee

2 C + 3/4 C Brown Sugar

4 Sticks Butter 

1 C Pecans, Walnuts, Almonds, Peanuts.. whichever you prefer

2 C Chocolate Chips 

 Lay down a piece of Parchment on a cookie sheet and add your nuts in a single layer

 

 Melt brown sugar and butter on medium

 I used the ice water method to figure out when my toffee was ready, if you don't own a candy thermometer, you can use this as well. You want the candy to come to a hard crack stage, which is when you add a bit of the candy to the ice water and the brittle candy stiffens quickly and you can hear a snap when broken. 

 

 When the butter and sugar is completely melted you want to boil on low medium heat until the candy reaches hard crack. You want to constantly stir this with a wooden spoon.

 

 I used a timer on my phone to give me an estimate on how long the candy would take to get to hard crack stage, for the future. It took about 18 minutes.

 This is what your candy looks like when it has reached hard crack stage is has officially become toffee.. yay. 

 Carefully pour the toffee over the nuts on the parchment.

 Lay the chocolate chips over the hot toffee so that they will melt

 Wait a moment before you spread the chocolate over the toffee, you want the chocolate to melt and you don't want to get burnt.

 Top with crushed nuts, let the toffee sit for about a half of hour to an hour and get stiff and then when stiff and chocolate is hard, break the toffee into pieces.