Bacon toffee, anyone?
Ingredients
1/2 lb bacon
1 stick butter
1/4 cup water
1 cup sugar
salt
Instructions
Cook the bacon in a skillet. Let it cool on paper towels to remove the excess grease, then chop it into bits. The pieces should be about the size of a fingertip. Set aside.
Put the water, butter, sugar, and a pinch of salt in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir constantly until the water has boiled off (the mixture will get very bubbly/frothy first) and the mixture turns a deep golden tan color.
Remove from heat, stir in bacon bits, and quickly spread toffee on a silpat or well-oiled baking sheet or piece of marble.
Let cool, then break toffee into pieces by covering it with plastic wrap and pounding it with a knife handle or toffee hammer.
Toffee stores in refrigerator indefinitely.
Ingredients
½
pound bacon
1
stick butter
¼
cup water
1
cup sugar
one pinch salt
Preparation
Step 1
Cook the bacon in a skillet or in the microwave on paper towels.
Step 2
Let it cool on paper towels to remove the excess grease, then chop it into bits. The pieces should be about the size of a fingertip. Set aside.
Step 3
Put the water, butter, sugar, and a pinch of salt in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir constantly until the water has boiled off (the mixture will get very bubbly/frothy first) and the mixture turns a deep golden tan color.
Step 4
Remove from heat, stir in bacon bits, and quickly spread toffee on a silpan or well-oiled baking sheet or a piece of marble.
Step 5
Let cool, then break toffee into pieces by covering it with plastic wrapand pounding it with a knife handle or toffee hammer.
Step 6
Toffee keeps in refrigerator indefinitely.
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Singing like Elf:
I’m commenting. I’m at Heidi’s blog and I’m commenting; I’m at Heidi’s blog and I’M COMMENTING!!
(that will make absolutely no sense to anyone who hasn’t seen Elf)
Oh, and that bacon toffee? I’m making it.
This sounds wonderful. Did you have enough bacon? I thought you used it on the cookies.
It is not Marshallville bacon.
I NEED to go to Marshallville.
this sounds reeeeeaaaalllllly good!
I can read you loud and clear!
Thank you for sounding out!
Your comments show up here without any problem- but they aren’t showing up on my gmail account.
I’m looking for small hammers- toffee hammers, actually.
Does anyone know where I can find at least 2 dozen?
I read you loud and clear too. You guys really like bacon!
Why yes, we do like bacon.
And sometimes I get stuck trying to find a perfect recipe- do you know what I mean?
I’m planning on doing some workshops”Countdown to Christmas” with novel gifts and treats to make and give away- and one of them is cashew brittle on a slab of marble- but I’d like to offer a couple of variations on the theme- hence the bacon toffee.
I just love you. And bacon. And let’s have fondue and dip bacon in chocolate. Because all this bacon talk is making me a little crazy.
Mmm! Now that sounds good.
Bacon is a good fortifying food.
And part of the basic needed food groups.
ANd so very good.
Right?