Chocolate Butter Toffee With Mixed Nuts Recipes

Steps:

• In a heavy saucepan, combine sugar, salt, water and butter. Cook until mixture reaches 285° (soft-crack stage). Add 1/2 cup nuts. Pour onto a well-greased jelly roll pan or baking sheet; cool. Melt half of the chocolate chips in a double boiler or microwave. Spread over cooled toffee and sprinkle with 1/4 cup nuts. Cool. Turn over onto another sheet of waxed paper; repeat with remaining chocolate chips and nuts. When cool, break into pieces.

Steps:

• Butter 13x9-inch pan; line with parchment or waxed paper. Butter paper.
• Sprinkle 3/4 cup milk chocolate chips, 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, 2 tablespoons almonds, 2 tablespoons pecans and 2 tablespoons walnuts over parchment paper; set aside.
• Combine sugar, butter, water and salt in heavy 4-quart saucepan. Cook
• over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a full boil (10
• to 12 minutes). Continue boiling, stirring often, until candy thermometer
• reaches 305°F or small amount of mixture dropped into ice water forms a
• hard brittle strand (20 to 25 minutes).
• Remove from heat; stir in vanilla.
• Pour mixture into prepared pan.Immediately sprinkle with remaining almonds, pecans and walnuts; swirl into toffee with knife. Sprinkle remaining milk chocolate chips and semi-sweet chocolate chips evenly over toffee, pressing gently into toffee.
• Cool completely. Break into pieces.

Steps:

• Butter small rimmed baking sheet. Melt butter in heavy medium saucepan over low heat. Add next 6 ingredients; stir until sugars dissolve. Attach clip-on candy thermometer to pan. Increase heat to medium; boil until thermometer registers 290°F, stirring slowly but constantly and scraping bottom of pan with wooden spatula, about 20 minutes. Remove pan from heat. Mix in 1 1/2 cups nuts. Immediately pour candy onto sheet. Spread toffee to 1/4-inch thickness. Immediately sprinkle chocolate atop toffee. Let stand 1 minute. Using back of spoon, spread chocolate over toffee. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup nuts. Chill 1 hour. Break toffee into pieces. (Can be made 2 weeks ahead. Chill in airtight container. Let stand at room temperature at least 30 minutes and up to 1 hour before serving.)