what is toffee

Toffee is a sweet candy made by cooking sugar and butter together until it reaches the hard-crack stage, then cooling it into a crunchy texture. It’s usually rich, buttery, and can be made plain or topped with nuts or chocolate.

Quick Scoop

• Main ingredients: sugar and butter.

• Texture: brittle, crunchy, sometimes slightly chewy depending on how it’s cooked.

• Flavor: sweet, buttery, and often a little caramel-like.

• Common uses: eaten as candy, or broken into desserts like brownies, cookies, pudding, and ice cream.

Simple example

Think of toffee as a candy version of toasted sugar and butter cooked together until it snaps when you bite it.

Related note

Toffee is different from caramel because it is cooked to a higher temperature and usually ends up firmer and more brittle.