Easy Butter Toffee

Easy butter toffee that melts in your mouth

Course Dessert

Keyword butter, candy, Chocolate, christmas, pecan

Cook Time 10

Hardening time 30

Total Time 40

Servings pieces

Cost 5

Line a cookie sheet with foil, folding over the edges.
Spread butter on the side of a 2-quart sauce pan.
Melt the butter in the pan, then add sugar, water, and corn syrup.
Stir and cook on medium-high heat until it boils.
Clip the candy thermometer to the side of the pan, reduce heat to medium and continue boiling at a steady rate until soft-crack stage (290 F).
Pour candy mixture into the foil-covered pan and spread quickly to about ¼ of an inch thick. But the thin pieces are tasty too!
Let the candy set for a couple of minutes and sthens prinkle chocolate on top while still hot.
Let the chocolate melt for a few minutes and then spread with a spatula.
Sprinkle pecan peices in before the chocolate hardens
Put the pan in fridge or freezer until hard (about 30 minutes)
Break into 1-2 inch peices with your hands.
Store in an air-tight container in the fridge for up to 3 weeks.
It won't last that long.