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Desserts • A family favorite

2020 Cookbook

Gramma Brown’s English Toffee

Recipe by Meri Brown

Heat
See method
Time
20 min + chill
Makes
Not recorded

Gramma Brown’s English Toffee, preserved in the Brown Family Cookbook 2020.

01

Ingredients

  • 1. Toast 1/2 cup sliced almonds. Finely chop.
  • 2. Spread 1/2 cup chocolate chips in a buttered, foil-lined cookie sheet. Melt in oven
  • & spread chocolate thinly over foil.
  • 3. Over medium heat, melt 1 pound (4 sticks) of SALTED butter. Add 2 cups sugar.
  • 4. Cook, stirring rapidly and constantly for 20 minutes. Mixture will go through phases: (1) separation, (2) together, (3) oily, (4) together
  • 5. Pour mixture over melted chocolate chips in pan. Sprinkle another 1/2 cup
  • chocolate chips over hot mixture. Spread when melted. Use butter wrapper to
  • press almonds into chocolate. Cool completely. Chill. Break.

02

Method

  1. 01

    Toast 1/2 cup sliced almonds. Finely chop.

  2. 02

    Spread 1/2 cup chocolate chips in a buttered, foil-lined cookie sheet. Melt in oven

  3. 03

    & spread chocolate thinly over foil.

  4. 04

    Over medium heat, melt 1 pound (4 sticks) of SALTED butter. Add 2 cups sugar.

  5. 05

    Cook, stirring rapidly and constantly for 20 minutes. Mixture will go through

  6. 06

    phases: (1) separation, (2) together, (3) oily, (4) together

  7. 07

    Pour mixture over melted chocolate chips in pan. Sprinkle another 1/2 cup

  8. 08

    chocolate chips over hot mixture. Spread when melted. Use butter wrapper to press almonds into chocolate. Cool completely. Chill. Break.