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📋 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 it has the texture of caramels.
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword butter, salted, soft, toffee
Special Diet Vegetarian
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
setting time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 25 minutes
Servings 18 pieces
Calories 145kcal
Author Terri Gilson

Equipment

Ingredients

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

Garnish

  • coarse salt
US Customary - Metric

Instructions

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

Notes

*Please see post contents for important recipe information and tips!
Nutrition Facts
📋 Salted Soft Butter Toffee Recipe
Amount Per Serving (1 toffee piece)
Calories 145 Calories from Fat 72
% Daily Value*
Fat 8g12%
Saturated Fat 5g31%
Trans Fat 0.3g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.3g
Monounsaturated Fat 2g
Cholesterol 21mg7%
Sodium 67mg3%
Potassium 17mg0%
Carbohydrates 19g6%
Fiber 0.03g0%
Sugar 19g21%
Protein 0.3g1%
Vitamin A 250IU5%
Vitamin C 0.05mg0%
Calcium 13mg1%
Iron 0.1mg1%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition

Serving: 1toffee piece | Calories: 145kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 0.3g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 21mg | Sodium: 67mg | Potassium: 17mg | Fiber: 0.03g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 250IU | Vitamin C: 0.05mg | Calcium: 13mg | Iron: 0.1mg