Easy Butter Toffee That Melts in Your Mouth

I learned how to make this easy butter toffee in high school. My mom was not a big baker and I’m sure she has never made candy in her life (I had to go buy a candy thermometer to make this). What my mom did have was an old either Betty Crocker or Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook for the 60s. It was red and white plaid like a tablecloth, creaked when I opened it, and smelled like a musty library.

I used to flip through that cookbook and think that only professional chefs used such a complex cookbook. I laugh at that now because I have the newer version that my 7-year-old son was flipping through the other day, and he was giggling because there was a recipe for mashed potatoes. He was belly-laughing over the thought of someone needing a recipe for mashed potatoes.

But while I imagined famous chefs using this “advanced” cookbook, I came across the candy section. You can make candy at home? Why am I just learning about this? So, after studying each recipe, I decided butter toffee was the one I had a fighting chance of accomplishing.

The butter toffee was easier than I thought!

After setting up everything I needed to make the butter toffee and reading the recipes like they were the lost scrolls, I gave it my best shot! Confession time… I have never eaten butter toffee before. So, I had no clue what it was supposed to taste like. That is probably a home cooking fail. 

I asked my stepdad to try the butter toffee. I am going to say it was successful because he ate my first batch in an afternoon. That started my adventures in believing I could make anything that I wanted to!

My kids have mastered butter toffee

My kids have been raised believing that there is nothing we can’t create in our kitchen. This makes a treat like butter toffee, something that I have to remind them is revered for the holidays in our home.

I usually don’t let them do it by themselves until they are teens because it is dangerously hot. But the basics of making their own candy is just another day in the kitchen for them.