Every holiday season we would receive a container of this toffee from my grandma.
Ingredients
- 1 lb salted butter
- 2½ cups sugar
- 1½ cup almonds
- 2 cups chocolate chips
- 1½ cup walnuts
How to make it
- Lightly coat marble slab or 12 x 18″ baking pan with 1Tbsp. butter.
- In a heavy dutch oven or deep skillet, stir butter and sugar together over medium heat.
- Increase heat to high or very high. Cook and stir until candy thermometer reads 250 degrees.
- Add almonds and continue to stir to 300 degrees. Pour candy into slab. Allow to cool five minutes. Loosen candy with a spatula.
- Sprinkle with 1 cup chocolate chips. Spread when melted. Shift candy to make sure it doesn’t stick.
- Sprinkle chocolate with 3/4 cup walnuts. Pat lightly with spatula. Turn candy over.
- Melt 1 cup chocolate chips and spread on candy. Sprinkle with 3/4 cup walnuts. Pat lightly.
- When candy is completely cool, break into pieces and store in airtight containers.
