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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Miss Donna's Microwave Toffee
I had a very good friend who made this toffee for me every year around the holidays. We moved away and I simply had to have this recipe so that I could make it myself. It is so good and so easy to make.
One thing I should say, most modern microwave ovens handle this very, very well but older ones that are losing power frequently just won't get the candy hot enough. I had that problem the first time I made it.
Ms. Donna’s Microwave Toffee
1/2 C pecans chopped
1/2 C butter no substitutions
1 C sugar
pinch of salt
1/4 C water
3/4 C semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/4 C chopped pecans
Place butter, salt, sugar and water in microwave proof bowl. Butter top 2 inches of bowl. Cook on high 9-11 minutes depending on microwave until light brown, do watch carefully as all microwaves are different. Some of them may take less than 9 minutes so the very first time watch it after about 6 or 7 minutes to make sure it does not burn. Do not stir. While this is cooking, butter a 9 inch circle on cookie sheet, sprinkle with pecans (you can do this on foil or wax paper). Pour mixture after cooking over the pecans then sprinkle hot toffee with chocolate chips. Allow chocolate chips to sit for 1 minute, chips will melt and then spread evenly over toffee. Sprinkle remaining pecans on top. Let cool and break into pieces. Have fun.
There are a lot of fun options with this candy, you can put white chocolate on it, peanuts are great instead of pecans, so are walnuts. You could add dried fruit to it, raisins are delicious!
One thing I should say, most modern microwave ovens handle this very, very well but older ones that are losing power frequently just won't get the candy hot enough. I had that problem the first time I made it.
Ms. Donna’s Microwave Toffee
1/2 C pecans chopped
1/2 C butter no substitutions
1 C sugar
pinch of salt
1/4 C water
3/4 C semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/4 C chopped pecans
Place butter, salt, sugar and water in microwave proof bowl. Butter top 2 inches of bowl. Cook on high 9-11 minutes depending on microwave until light brown, do watch carefully as all microwaves are different. Some of them may take less than 9 minutes so the very first time watch it after about 6 or 7 minutes to make sure it does not burn. Do not stir. While this is cooking, butter a 9 inch circle on cookie sheet, sprinkle with pecans (you can do this on foil or wax paper). Pour mixture after cooking over the pecans then sprinkle hot toffee with chocolate chips. Allow chocolate chips to sit for 1 minute, chips will melt and then spread evenly over toffee. Sprinkle remaining pecans on top. Let cool and break into pieces. Have fun.
There are a lot of fun options with this candy, you can put white chocolate on it, peanuts are great instead of pecans, so are walnuts. You could add dried fruit to it, raisins are delicious!
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