Simple recipe for English toffee with pecans or walnuts and a chocolate topping.
Ingredients
3/4 cup brown sugar (packed)
1/2 cup salted butter
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts (or any nuts of choice)
1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
extra chopped nuts to sprinkle on top of the chocolate (optional)
Directions
- Grease a 9 x 9-inch cake pan. Spread the chopped walnuts evenly in the bottom of the pan. Over high heat, melt together sugar and butter in medium size saucepan until boiling. Lower heat to medium. Boil over medium heat for 7 minutes, stirring constantly. Pour into pan. Sprinkle chocolate chips over hot mixture. Place a cookie sheet over the pan to retain the heat and melt the chocolate chips. If using, sprinkle with additional chopped nuts. Cut into squares while hot, then refrigerate until hard. Break into pieces.
Notes
- Yield depends entirely upon how big or small you you make your pieces.
- Reviewers…if you have made this recipe (and not eaten any yet…if that is possible!), and you happen to have a kitchen scale, could you weigh this for us? We’d love to provide a weight as a unit of measure for how much candy this makes. Thanks!
- Photo by Eliza Adam under Creative Commons license.