📋 Salted Soft Butter Toffee Recipe

This Salted Soft Butter Toffee is a delicious treat that's the perfect combination of sweet and salt, with a hint of licorice from the anise. It tastes like butter toffee, but is a soft toffee that has the texture of caramels.

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword butter, salted, soft, toffee

Special Diet Vegetarian

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 20

setting time 2

Total Time 2 25

Servings pieces

Calories 145kcal

Ingredients

2 ¼ cups powdered sugar/icing sugar/confectioners sugar
½ cup milk
¼ cup light corn syrup
3 teaspoon vanilla extract
¾ cup salted butter
4-5 star anise

Garnish

coarse salt

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Prep: Line a 9X5 loaf pan with parchment paper.
In a saucepan, combine powdered sugar/icing sugar, milk, corn syrup, vanilla extract and star anise.
Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring with a wooden spoon.
Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes. Remove star anise with a slotted spoon.
Gradually stir in butter.
Cook, stirring frequently over medium heat until temperature reaches 230 degrees f (110 c) with candy thermometer or instant read thermometer.
Pour hot toffee into prepared pan and cool at room temperature for at least 2 hours before cutting.
Trim the uneven edges and cut into 18 pieces. Sprinkle with coarse salt (I use sea salt).
Store in the fridge in an airtight container. Place in mini muffin cups in a cookie tin, if giving as an edible gift.

Notes

Reaching the right temperature: It's critical that this mixture reach the right temperature of 230 degrees f (110 c) for the candy to set. Test the temperature with a candy thermometer or better yet an instant-read thermometer. (these thermometers can be used for everything from bread making to grilled meat). Be patient, as it will seem like it's taking forever at one point.
Use parchment paper to line the pan. Do NOT use wax paper (it will stick) and do not spray the pan with non-stick cooking spray. I tried this in the past and did this in the past and it is almost impossible to remove.
Refrigerate the toffee. Although these should be cooled at room temperature, they need to be store in the fridge. If not refrigerated for 30 minutes or more, these candies tend to swell. They still taste the same, but don't look as nice.

🌡️Storage

Store this homemade butter toffee in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. They keep their shape better if they are kept refrigerated. I found, that if they are not refrigerated, they will swell.

This homemade toffee recipe can also be frozen for up to 3 months.

📖Variations & Substitutions

Vanilla - you can use a vanilla bean instead (you will remove it when you remove the star anise)
Milk - you can use 2% or whole milk instead
Star anise- you don't have to use this, but you won't get that hint of licorice (and it's delicious)!
Butter - you can use unsalted butter and add ¼ teaspoon of salt
Coarse salt -you can use sea salt or kosher salt

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