Chipotle-Chocolate Toffee

By Tamipri

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 c. unsalted butter
• 1 c. sugar
• 1/2 c. light brown sugar
• 1/3 c. water
• 1 Tb. light corn syrup
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 Tb. chopped chipotle in adobo sauce
• 1 Tb. adobo sauce
• 2 c. natural almonds, coarsely chopped
• 1 c. dark chocolate chips, or semisweet chocolate chips

Details

Servings 2

Preparation

Step 1

Melt butter in a 3 qt. heavy saucepan over medium high heat. Add sugar and next 4 ingredients; cook until sugars dissolve, stirring constantly. Attach candy thermometer to pan. Decrease heat to medium, add chipotle pepper and sauce. Cook, stirring often, at a gently boil 10 minutes. Add almonds and continue boiling and stirring for 10 minutes or until themometer registers 290 degrees. Remove from heat. Carefully pour candy onto a buttered jelly-roll pan; spread candy to 1/4" thickness. Sprinkle with chocolate chips. Let stand 2 minutes or until chocolate melts; spread chocolate using an offset spatula. Cool until chocolate hardens. Break toffee into pieces.