A good toffee has equal or nearly equal amounts of butter and sugar and a large helping of nuts to impart their special flavor. Toffee is buttery rich, very crunchy creation.
Like hard candy and brittle, toffee is made from boiling sugar or molasses with water and butter until a caramel is formed. Toffee contains dairy products which provide its caramel color and flavor through cooking.
A typical commercially made toffee contains the following ingredients:
*Sugar
*Glucose syrup 42 DE
*Condensed milk
*Fat
Other optional ingredients including:
*Milk powder
*Whey powder
*Hydrolyzed whey syrup
*Invert sugar syrup
*Brown sugar
*Golden syrup
*Emulsifier
*Glucose syrup 68 DE
*Isomerase glucose
*Salt
*Flavor
*Color
Water in toffee allows the sugar to dissolve during cooking. Water may be added directly or may be added in the form of milk or other dairy products that are mostly water.
All toffees contain skim milk solids and usually some fat. A toffee can be and using full cream milk and butter or with skim milk and vegetable fat – some toffees lie somewhere in between the two extreme.
Toffee made using higher fat dairy products has a crisp and delicate texture, while toffee made lower fat ingredients has more of a hard candy texture.
Vanilla extract and salt are the most common flavors added to toffee and serve to balance and complete the flavor, but other flavors such as coffee extract may also be used.
English toffee is very buttery form of toffee to which almonds are often added. These nuts provide flavor and textural contrast to toffee.
What are the toffee ingredients?
