We are five days away from Christmas, but there's still time to make a little candy to add to your holiday goodie plates.
Don't worry, no candy thermometers or dipping in chocolate here. This recipe is easy. All you need are three ingredients, a little stamina and some guts.
The three ingredients are butter, sugar and plain Hershey bars. The stamina is required for stirring CONSTANTLY. The guts? Well, you've got to cook the butter and sugar together on HIGH heat until the sugar caramelizes. You can't wimp out and turn down the heat.
Ready?
Take a deep breath and go for it! You can make it with or without nuts.
Chocolate-covered Toffee
Butter a cookie sheet and sprinkle evenly with walnut or pecan pieces, if using.
Unwrap 4-5 plain Hershey bars, depending on how much chocolate you like on your toffee. You can omit the chocolate if you want to, but why would you want to?
In a large heavy-bottomed kettle (this stuff really expands!) cook together over HIGH heat, stirring CONSTANTLY:
2 C. white sugar
2 C. butter
Do NOT chicken out by turning the burner down. If it smokes, turn on the fan. Keep stirring.
Cook until the mixture turns a nice caramel brown color, like dark brown sugar. Then take it off the heat and quickly pour it evenly into buttered pan. If it continues to cook, it will burn.
Use a spatula to spread the toffee out, if necessary. Place Hershey bars on top. Spread chocolate evenly after it melts.
Refrigerate to cool, and then break into pieces.
A half recipe makes a pie tin or an 8x8 pan of slightly thicker toffee.
Enjoy!
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Thank you for the recipe. I got brave and decided to make it today. I didn't chicken out and I kept it on high the whole time. It worked great. I didn't use any nuts. I put a piece of wax paper on the cookie sheet and sprayed the wax paper. I was able to take the toffee off and break it really easily. Sadly, I didn't have any Hershey bars so I used milk chocolate chips that were left over from making chocolate peanut butter balls. It wasn't very even so it doesn't look too pretty but it tastes really good. After eating some, I felt like I needed to brush my teeth for about twenty minutes but it's totally worth it.
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