Time for another Christmas box post!
At the suggestion of my Pilates instructor, Emilia, I made salted caramel toffees, using this recipe from Not So Humble Pie.
Mrs Humble's recipe was to make soft caramels; unfortunately, I knew early on that I was going to get hard caramels, so I made sure that I scored the mixture a number of times while it was setting so that I could cut it into squares later.
I had actually wanted soft caramels, so in a fit of pique, I refused to waste my fleur de sel on top of the toffees, and just used ordinary sea salt flakes.
Hard or soft, these are delicious - the sweet and the salt go well together - make them!
Candy kind of scares me, so I find it admirable that you took this on! They look perfectly teeth stickingly scrupmtious. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteLooks delicious! I may have to buy a candy thermometer to make these this weekend...
ReplyDeleteIt's terrible when you feel a recipe is not going well and you don't want to use good ingredients because that is a waste but then you feel using substandard ingredients wont make them as good as they could be - but these sound a success despite not being soft - toffee is not something I am good at doing - only used to make it rock hard when I was little!
ReplyDeleteWowo one of my fav an dyou made them home.So so delicous it must be.
ReplyDeleteYum Christmas Caramels! they sound and look great!!
ReplyDeleteYummmmm.....these look awesome!!
ReplyDeleteMmm. I remember hard toffee being a prized treat at "Little Cake Day" fundraisers in primary school. It was always the first thing to sell out.
ReplyDeleteSalted hard toffee sounds even better. :)
Cakelaw, I tied another recipe and wanted to get hard caramels but got soft caramels. Let me know if you would like the recipe! :P
ReplyDeleteThey look nice! I'd like to try making caramels, but haven't attempted it yet.
ReplyDeleteLove anything with coarse sea salt, in candies and desserts. I love this explosion of saltiness when eating something sweet.
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