easy desserts & recipes: caramel crunch bars
Toffee is the delicious buttery, rich confection that is hard to resist. The word toffee comes from the southern British dialect (tuffy, toughy) and is a variant of the word taffy. By definition, toffee is a “sweet made from sugar or treacle boiled with butter, nuts, etc.” Toffee is made when sugar is caramelized and butter is added. The butter and sugar heat until the mixture reaches the hard crack stage. It can be flavored or aerated, which is when toffee is made into sponge candy. Walker’s Nonsuch, a family owned and operated company, have been the producers of wonderful English Toffee since the late 19th century. The name, “Nonsuch” was taken from Henry VIII’s “Nonsuch Palace which was “crowned the ‘palace of all palaces’ for its exquisite splendor there was ‘nonsuch’ lit it” (from the Walker’s website). Walker’s has some of the best toffee flavors, such as nutty Brazil,... Read the Rest →
