Hard Butterscotch Candy
"Good 'old-fasioned' hard candy. Prep/cook time is and est. - it can vary with the day due to weather."
photo by Angie L.
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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1 pound
ingredients
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1⁄4 cup light corn syrup
- 1 cup water
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄3 cup butter
- 1⁄4 teaspoon vanilla extract
directions
- Put sugar, corn syrup, water and salt into saucepan.
- Stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved.
- Increase heat and cook until thermometer registers 250 degrees F, firm ball stage.
- Add butter; cook with occasional stirring until thermometer registers 300 degrees F (brittle stage).
- Remove from stove.
- Add vanilla extract.
- Pour into buttered shallow pan, making a layer 1/4 inch deep.
- While warm, crease into squares with a blunt knife.
- When cold, break into pieces.
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Reviews
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This recipe is very helpful and delicious! i have no experience with candy making but this was very easy! it did take me a few tries to get it right but it tastes AMAZING!! -
I made butter rum/caramel hard rock candy at Christmas but I'm out of that flavoring. I found this recipe and thought it might be sort of similar. I'm not even a Worthers Original fan but this is so good!!! Homemade is always better, even if they're not perfectly shaped!!
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I agree with Sams_Rosie below - this is more like a toffee, albeit a very hard and glossy one. Kind of reminds me of Werther's Original. Very tasty and nice but not really what I was looking for. -
It tasted good. However, it didn't taste like butterscotch. -
This was great! It tastes more like heath bar filling, it would be really good dipped chocolate. I accidently let the temp get to 350 but it still tasted great.
Tweaks
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I slightly tweaked this, used dark brown sugar, maple syrup and increased the vanilla to 1/2 tsp. and it came out really nice. A slightly different texture, but the taste was awesome.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
pastrytiff
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