Christmas Toffee

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
• 1 cup salted butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon orange-flavored liqueur
• 8 ounces chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup almonds, crushed

Recipe

• 1 grease a cookie sheet or lay a silicon baking mat in a jelly roll pan.
• 2 in a heavy saucepan melt butter, sugar, and corn syrup over medium heat. continue to heat the mixture until it reaches 300f (hint: use a candy thermometer). the mixture will foam and increase in volume as the water in the butter boils out.
• 3 mix in the liquor and carefully pour the candy out onto the silicon baking mat or a greased cookie sheet. using a spatula spread the toffee out to a thin layer. it will thicken quickly. sprinkle the chocolate chips liberally out on the toffee and leave to melt from the heat.
• 4 while the chocolate layer is still soft, sprinkle over the crushed almonds.
• 5 let toffee cool in the refrigerator until hard, then break into bite size pieces.