How to Make Salted Toffee Bits
These homemade toffee bits are buttery, crisp, a little salty, and they only need 3 ingredients and 10 minutes to make. That’s it! We love adding them into cookies, muffins, brownies, or basically anything that could use a little crunchy caramel goodness.
Toffee vs. Caramel – What’s the difference?
- Toffee is a hard, crunchy candy made by cooking butter, sugar, and salt together until the mixture reaches a high temperature, known as the hard crack stage. Once it cools, it becomes firm sheet that can be broken into bits. Our favorite recipe to use toffee are these brown butter drumstick blondies.
- Caramel is soft and chewy, and often includes cream or milk. We have a caramel sauce recipe here.
How to Make Salted Toffee Bits
01. Prepare the baking sheet
Make sure to line your baking sheet with parchment paper before you start! You’ll want the tray ready to go so you can pour the toffee when it’s done.
02. Melt the butter and sugar
In a medium saucepan, combine the butter, sugar, and salt over medium heat. Stir occasionally until the butter is completely melted and the sugar is dissolved.
03. Cook the toffee
Once the sugar and butter are melted, continue cooking the mixture, stirring every 10 seconds. The mixture will gradually turn golden brown. As you stir, the toffee will slowly turn a medium-dark golden brown color. Continue stirring and cooking for about 10 minutes (it may take less time depending on the heat of your stove). Once you see the desired color, remove from the heat immediately to keep it from burning.
04. Sprinkle with flaky salt
Pour the toffee onto the prepared baking sheet pan and spread into an even layer. Generously sprinkle flaky salt on top.
05. Cool and break into bits
Allow the toffee to cool completely. Then, break it into pieces.
Watch how we made it:
Pro Tip: Don’t skip the salt!
After so many trial runs perfecting our recipe, we finally figured out what makes our toffee turn out just right every time. A small pinch of salt actually helps keep the butter and sugar from separating while cooking. Without it, the mixture can split, leaving you with an oily mess.
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Salted Toffee Bits
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter cubed
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- flaky salt for topping
Instructions
For the Toffee
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a medium saucepan, combine the butter, sugar, and salt over medium heat. Stir occasionally until the butter is completely melted and the sugar is dissolved.
- Once the sugar and butter are melted, continue cooking the mixture, stirring every 10 seconds. The mixture will gradually turn golden brown.
- As you stir, the toffee will slowly turn a medium-dark golden brown color. Continue stirring and cooking for about 10 minutes (it may take less time depending on the heat of your stove). Once you see the desired color, remove from the heat immediately to keep it from burning
- Pour the toffee onto the baking sheet and quickly spread into an even layer. Sprinkle flaky salt on top.
- Allow the toffee to cool completely. Then, break it into pieces.
