Easy Toffee Together With A Christmas Tour Link Party

I intended to post this yesterday, but I know you lot all are merely every bit busy every bit I am, in addition to I chose to complete upwards merely about shopping rather than working on the computer. I spent Th eve cooking upwards a big batch of toffee to include alongside our instructor in addition to vecino gifts.  Years agone when I was teaching, i of my co-teachers would brand us this amazing toffee each Christmas, in addition to she was variety plenty to part the recipe.  I've been making it almost every Christmas since!

Ingredients:

2 cups butter (I used a mix of salted & unsalted, I don't know that it matters.)
2 cups sugar
1/4 loving cup + 2 Tbsp. water
8-10 Hershey bars, or i handbag chocolate chips
chopped pecans

Speaking of pecans, bring I always showed you lot my cheater means to "chop" pecans?  I pour them inward a plastic handbag in addition to pound them alongside something heavy, unremarkably a ladle.  Works similar a charm, it's fast, in addition to there's no mess to build clean up!

You volition also bespeak a candy thermometer.  I merely picked a novel i upwards at Target for $10, in addition to then they're relatively slow to discovery in addition to a proficient kitchen gadget to bring on hand.

Mix the butter, sugar, in addition to H2O together in addition to oestrus to boiling.  With the candy thermometer attached to the pot, oestrus until the mixture reaches 300 degrees.  I was working alongside a triple recipe in addition to it took nigh thirty minutes to attain that temperature.  Stir oft in addition to live careful...it likes to splatter a flake in addition to it's hot!

Here you lot tin encounter the progression of the coloring-

when it reaches that caramel color it's ready!

Right when it gets to 300 degrees, take from oestrus in addition to pour straight onto cookie sheets that bring been buttered or sprayed alongside cooking spray.  Allow to harden in addition to cool, which took nigh an hour.

When toffee is cool, melt chocolate in addition to spread on top.  Sprinkle pecans on transcend if desired, in addition to I similar to press them downwards a flake in addition to then they'll stick good in i trial the chocolate hardens.  Allow chocolate to cool in addition to harden.  If I'm inward a hurry I stick the pans inward the freezer for an hr or in addition to then to speed upwards the process.

When chocolate has hardened, purpose the tip of a knife or spatula to popular the toffee off of the pan, in addition to interruption it upwards into smaller pieces.  That's it!  The printed recipe inward a higher identify is for a unmarried batch, but I've tripled the recipe inward these photos.  Just for reference, the triple recipe ended upwards roofing iv cookie sheets in addition to a 9x13 pan.  So, a unmarried recipe would brand nigh a sail in addition to a half.   Fair alarm - it's difficult to halt eating!

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The 12 Days of Christmas Tour of Homes has come upwards to an end, but straight off is your jeopardy to link upwards your ain Christmas home!  I was in addition to then honored to live included alongside this fabulous grouping of ladies.  Here's the amount listing of tour links if in that place were whatsoever you lot missed!

Evolution of Style
Shine Your Light
Dixie Delights
The Creativity Exchange

Driven past times Decor
Simple Details
The Little Black Door
Oak Ridge Revival
Steward of Design

And, caput over to Evolution of Style here to link upwards your ain home.  Many thank you lot to Jenny for organizing the entire tour, in addition to to Lisa at Shine Your Light for making all of the darling chalkboard graphics to move along us all organized.

Happy Weekend, friends!  We're iced inward again, in addition to then I'm planning to a greater extent than baking in addition to crafting in addition to hanging out alongside the fam.  Oh, I approximate I'd amend larn to wrapping all of that materials I shopped for all week, too.  Are YOU ready?

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