Butter Toffee with Pecans and Milk Chocolate

Butter Toffee with pecans and milk chocolate is just about the best candy treat around. This recipe for toffee is very easy and creates the most irresistible candy ever.

If you'd like more candy recipe ideas, you should try Chocolate Peanut Clusters Recipe, Tiger Butter Bark, Peppermint Bark Recipe, Cream Cheese Mints Recipe, and Peanut Butter Fudge.

Crunchy homemade butter toffee with pecans chopped up into the perfect size and milk chocolate on top is just the absolute BEST.

This butter toffee recipe is very easy and you will most likely already have most of the ingredients in your cabinet.

I have always LOVED toffee. Chocolate covered toffee, that is. I also LOVE milk chocolate. I know dark chocolate, with its health benefits, has been making a comeback over the past handful of years, but I still love milk chocolate the most.

For this recipe, milk chocolate kicks this recipe up to the next level of deliciousness.

Ingredients you will need:

1. Pecans
2. Granulated Sugar
3. Unsalted Butter
4. Sea Salt
5. Vanilla
6. Milk chocolate chips

How to make Butter Toffee with Pecans?

1. Spray an 8x8 or 9x9 baking dish with butter spray, then line with parchment paper on the bottom and the sides.
2. Spread the coarsely chopped pecans on the parchment paper.
3. In a light-colored, thick-bottomed pot, add in the sugar, butter, and salt. Add a candy thermometer to pot at this point to monitor the temperature. Set the pot to medium heat and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring frequently.
4. Let the mixture cook, stirring occasionally, until it reaches 290-300 degrees or the "hard crack" stage on the thermometer.
5. Remove pot from heat and gently stir in vanilla.
6. Pour the mixture over the pecans, cover the dish with foil and let the candy sit for 5 minutes allowing the chocolate to soften.
7. With a knife or spatula, spread the milk chocolate over the toffee.
8. Place the toffee in the refrigerator to cool for 2 hours.
9. Remove from fridge.
10. Pull the toffee out of the dish with the parchment paper handles and break toffee into pieces.
11. ENJOY!!

How to store butter toffee?

Be sure to store your toffee in an airtight container in the refrigerator. The milk chocolate topping could soften if you do not store it in the fridge.

Tips for this Butter Toffee with Pecans:

1. Use a light-colored pot, so that you can monitor the color of the mixture. You will also want a heavy-bottomed pot, as it will cook the candy faster and more evenly.
2. I think waiting for the sugar mixture to reach the 290-300 degree mark can be a bit frustrating. You first have to bring the mixture of butter, sugar, and salt to boiling. You want a simmering boil, not a rolling boil, in order to avoid chewy toffee. The time it takes to arrive at a boil really depends on the type of pan you are using. It can range from 20 minutes to an hour. It is important to not go much higher than medium in order to allow the sugar to dissolve properly.
3. There's a great tutorial on making toffee at the King Arthur Baking site that I found very helpful, and you might want to check it out as well.

Possible recipe variations:

1. You can use chopped almonds instead of pecans.
2. I know I sang the praises of milk chocolate earlier, but, you can, of course, use dark chocolate chips as well and it will still be delicious.