Homemade toffee is a delicious delicious treat without artificial additives and harmful flavors. Toffee are sweet candies made from sugar, butter or vegetable oil, as well as flour, peanuts, sesame or condensed milk added at will. Homemade toffee turns out to be soft and tender, it is very easy to prepare them.
Homemade toffee can be plain, sour cream, with honey or condensed milk. When cooking a sweet mass, remember: the thicker the toffee becomes, the more often they need to be stirred. Failure to do so will cause the sugar to stick to the sides of the pot, burn, and spoil the taste of the candy.
Toffee became popular sweets in the 19th century, and they got their name for the aroma that the fragrant flower of the same name emits.
Keep in mind that it is best to cook sweet butterscotch candy on a low heat, otherwise it can burn quickly.
It is best to use a cutting board made of glass, ceramic, metal or stone to lay out and cut the toffee. The sweet mass will stick out worse from the wooden surface.
To make regular homemade toffee, you will need the following ingredients:
- 500 g of sugar;
- 100 g of butter;
- 250 ml of milk (or cream);
- 1 tsp vanilla.
Combine milk and granulated sugar in a saucepan, and then put on low heat and cook, stirring constantly. When the sugar mass acquires a beautiful coffee-brown hue, you should check it for readiness. To do this, dip a little of the cooked mass in cold water. In the event that it becomes thick, the mass is cooked.
In France, butterscotch is known as toffee, which were borrowed from England. Toffee is a homemade candy made in a pan with sugar and water. Later, water was replaced with milk, so modern toffee appeared.
Remove the sweet mass from heat, rub with butter and a little vanilla.
Moisten the cutting board with water, then lay out the sweet candy mass, smooth it and leave it for a while to harden.
Cut the frozen mass into small squares or shapes of any other shape. Place the taffy in the refrigerator for 1 to 2 hours to harden. After the indicated time, the toffee is completely ready and you can enjoy their taste.
Such homemade toffee is prepared for about 60 minutes. Caloric content is about 334 kcal per 100 g.
To prepare delicious toffee with condensed milk, you need to take the following ingredients:
- 300 ml of condensed milk;
- 100 g of butter;
- 200 ml of milk (or cream);
- 40 g of premium wheat flour.
Melt the butter in a saucepan, then add the wheat flour and sauté in oil, stirring constantly. When the flour turns golden brown, pour the condensed milk into it, mix well and keep on low heat for about 10 minutes.
In the meantime, heat the milk or cream a little and then add to the saucepan. Cook the sweet mass, stirring constantly, until it turns golden brown.
Put the finished candy mass on a cutting board moistened with boiled water, flatten it and cut into pieces of any shape. Then leave the toffee to cool, after which you can eat them.
When preparing toffee, you can add various ingredients to your taste, such as cocoa powder, almonds, chopped nuts, or chocolate, to the sweet mass.
