English Toffee Recipe With Just 4 Ingredients

This English Toffee Recipe is so SUPER, SUPER SIMPLE and it only requires 4 ingredients! This is my absolute favorite candy! If I could only eat one candy this would be it!

Out of all of our Christmas Candies, this 4 Ingredient English Toffee recipe is my absolute favorite Christmas candy recipe! This easy English toffee has a wonderful crunch with a nutty caramely flavor and a hint of chocolate. It’s great to include in a party dish with other tasty Christmas candies. Mmmm, I’m tempted to go make some now!

I see recipes all over for English toffee but those recipes include saltine crackers in them. Toffee is so super simple to make why would you waste a glorious candy like that by adding crackers?

Here is our English Toffee recipe from volume 1 of our cookbook. Try it and you will wonder why you never made it from scratch before!

Irresistible English Toffee Recipe

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This insanely delicious English Toffee recipe comes together in minutes with everyday ingredients—but tastes like something straight from a high-end candy shop! Buttery, crunchy, chocolatey, and guaranteed to disappear fast, it’s the show-stopping party treat everyone will beg you to make again and again!

• Author: Tawra Kellam
• Yield: 24 pieces

Ingredients

1 cup nuts, chopped  (pecans or walnuts are best) *
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Butter an 8×8 inch pan.
2. Spread the nuts in the bottom of the pan.
3. On medium heat, bring the sugar and butter to a boil and boil 7 minutes.
4. Spread into the pan.
5. Sprinkle the chocolate chips on top. Let it sit a few minutes.
6. When melted, spread evenly.
7. Let cool before cracking into pieces.

Notes

Variations:

• White Chocolate Macadamia Toffee: Macadamia nuts, crushed and white chocolate chips (not cheap but to die for!)
• Dark Chocolate with Almonds
• English Butter Toffee: substitute white sugar for brown sugar
• Chili Toffee: Almonds and 1/2-1 tsp. chili powder and 1 tsp. vanilla
• Gingerbread Toffee: Gingersnaps and 1 tsp. apple pie spice or pumpkin spice, white chips
• Pecan Coconut: 1/4 cup each chopped or whole pecans and coconut

 

Toffee Cracker Variations:

• Saltines
• Ritz
• Club Crackers
• Graham Crackers
• Pretzels

 

 

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