{"id":84,"date":"2011-12-01T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2011-12-01T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T15:01:00","slug":"homemade-toffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Homemade toffee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Toffee always makes a nice gift and keeps well. It’s something I can make early in the month and box up as gifts for neighbors, mail man, UPS and Fed Ex (have I mentioned how much I LOVE Amazon prime!) Anyway, if you’re itchin to get baking but it’s too early in the month then whip up some toffee. I love the crumbs leftover on the pan. I put them on ice cream and am in heaven. Good the the last crunch. I used to make peanut brittle and toffee on the same night buf found toffee to be so incredibly easy that I make it more often. Only three ingredients that I always have on hand. Once you’ve made it a few times you will begin to recognize the color and smell of when it is perfect. It helps to start with a candy thermometer or the ice water test. The ice water test is taking a bit of the toffee on a spoon and dipping it in to ice cold water. If it hardens up it’s toffee. If it is still soft, it’s caramel. I used that method for years because I couldn’t afford a candy thermometer. It served me well. If you’re doing this with kids be super careful. It’s lava hot and a drip will burn you. I waited till they were a bit older before I let them help me with toffee. I made this once and took it in to work and put in the break room. A co worker who came in after me said “you’ve got to get in to the break room fast, there’s some amazing toffee and it’s going fast”. Made my day……<\/p>\n

Toffee
1 C chopped nuts (optional -but if you wanna make almond roca, then use almonds. I personally use any nut I have on hand, it’s all good)
3\/4 C packed brown sugar
1\/2 C butter
1\/2 C chocolate chips (I don’t really measure the chocolate chips I just start pouring them on and spreading around till it looks like enough)<\/p>\n

Butter a pan you are going to spread the hot toffee on to. If you are using nuts put the chopped nuts over the butter. Heat sugar and butter to boiling in a 1 quart saucepan, stirring constantly. Boil over medium heat, stirring constantly, 7 minutes. Immediately spread mixture over pecans in pan. Sprinkle chocolate chips over hot mixture and spread. When it cools, cut or break it up. Yummy! <\/p>\n

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Toffee always makes a nice gift and keeps well. It’s something I can make early in the month and box up as gifts for neighbors, mail man, UPS and Fed Ex (have I mentioned how much I LOVE Amazon prime!) Anyway, if you’re itchin to get baking but it’s too early in the month then<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}