Enjoy the delicious taste of toffee, complete with little Heath candy bits, in this easy Heath Toffee Fudge recipe.
Fudge is one of my favorite sweet treats to make. Not only is it super EASY to make with just a few ingredients, but everyone seems to love it!
Christmas fudge in all flavors is a holiday tradition and this Heath fudge fits right in. BUT, you don’t have to limit it to only the holiday season. It’s a great go-to any time of year.
What adds the pizzazz to this easy fudge recipe is the Heath candy bits. You can go ahead and chop up full size Heath bars to use in the recipe, but it’s a lot easier to buy a bag of Heath Bits O’ Brickle at your local supermarket or online.
In the bag it’s called Heath Bits O’ Brickle Rich English Toffee Bits for Baking and it has been around forever! I remember my Mom making all kinds of treats with them and I always thought just the words “Bits O’Brickle” were fun and a bit old-fashioned sounding.
The other main ingredients for this recipe are the milk chocolate chips, butter, marshmallow creme and sweetened condensed milk. If you want to make your fudge even more homemade, you can use our homemade sweetened condensed milk recipe.
This fudge is perfect for holiday gatherings, cookie exchanges, or bake sale fundraisers. It also makes an excellent holiday gift! Just pack up a few pieces of fudge in a small bakery box tied up with red and white bakers twine or else holiday ribbons.
You can also pack it in metal cookie tins or place a few pieces incellophane treat bags and tie-up with colorful ribbons.
You can even attach a small card with the recipe so your recipients can make their own fudge next year! We have a free printable Christmas recipe card to make it easy.
Heath Toffee Fudge Recipe:
Ingredients: (See recipe card below for amounts and complete instructions.)
Add heath candybits (reserving some aside for the topping), and stir to combine.
Pour into a baking pan, and use a spoon or knife to smooth out. Add remaining Heath candy bits.
Refrigerate overnight.
Cut into 5 sections, by 5 sections, to make 25 pieces.
How to Store Toffee Fudge:
Store in an airtight container for up to two weeks.
Is There Anything to Use in Place of Heath Bits?
If for some reason you can’t find Heath Bits you have a few options. You can buy full-size Heath candy bars and crush them yourself. You can use a bag of Skor Bits instead. Or you can use any type of English Toffee and break it up into small pieces.
Can I use Marshmallow Fluff instead of Marshmallow Creme?
While they are very similar, to get nice smooth fudge you will want to use Marshmallow Creme rather than Marshmallow Fluff.
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Enjoy the delicious taste of toffee, complete with little Heath candy bits, in this easy fudge recipe.
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As toffee is hard crack, it has a more brittle texture.Fudge, on the other hand, is softball – making it soft and crumbly. The difference between caramel and toffee is greater, as caramel has a more liquid consistency and is usually pure sugar (it doesn't contain butter or flour).
Current ingredients are milk chocolate, sugar, vegetable oil, dairy butter (milk), almonds, salt, and soy lecithin. The wrapper's vintage brown color scheme has a small seal proclaiming Heath the "Finest Quality English Toffee".
If your fudge has a texture like soft toffee, it could be due to overcooking, using too much sugar or butter, or not cooking it to the right temperature.
The difference between toffee and caramel is that caramel is made with white granulated sugar and cooked to 340 degrees Fahrenheit, whereas toffee is made with butter and brown sugar and cooked to 295 - 309 degrees Fahrenheit.
Ingredients: Toffee consists of sugar and butter, while caramel comprises sugar, water, and cream—or just sugar. Temperature: Confectioners cook toffee to the hard-crack stage, around 310 degrees Fahrenheit, resulting in its signature craggy shards.
What's the difference between English and American toffee? The main difference is that traditional English toffee is created without nuts, while American toffee is created with a variety of nuts. The most common nuts being the almond.
Fry & Sons and currently manufactured by Cadbury. Launched in 1866—nineteen years after Fry's created the first moulded, solid chocolate eating bar (in 1847)— Fry's Chocolate Cream is the first mass-produced chocolate bar and is the world's oldest chocolate bar brand.
TIL Ben & Jerry's stopped using Hershey's Heath Bars in their ice cream due to their "commitment to source Fairtrade Certified and non-GMO ingredients wherever possible." The new recipes now use "equally-delicious fudge-covered toffee pieces."
Are HEATH Bars and SKOR Bars the same? No, HEATH Bars and SKOR Bars are two similarly flavored but different candies. SKOR Bars feature crisp butter toffee in chocolate candy, while HEATH Bars have crunchy English toffee in chocolate candy.
"Skör" (with umlaut dots over the "o") is Swedish for "brittle", and the crown that appears in the product's logo is identical to that found in the Swedish national emblem of Tre Kronor ("Three Crowns"). However, if one ignores the umlaut, the name becomes "Skor", which means "shoes" in Swedish.
Monitor the Temperature with a Candy Thermometer. If you end up with soft fudge that turns into a puddle in your hands or hard fudge that is a bit reminiscent of a crunchy candy, improper temperature is likely to blame. ...
Avoid Stirring Once the Mixture Comes to a Simmer. ...
Conversely, if the cooking time is too brief and there is not enough evaporation, too much water will remain and the fudge will be too soft. A temperature of 112°C to 114°C (234°F to 237°F) must be maintained. This will ensure the fudge has the ideal concentration of water and sugar. Fudge is difficult to make.
To fix oily, hard or grainy fudge, scoop the fudge back into a pot with about a cup of water. Cook it over low heat until the fudge dissolves. Then bring the fudge back up to the temperature specified in the recipe and follow the remaining steps. The flavor may be slightly diluted, but the texture will be improved.
Simply put, toffee is an overcooked butterscotch — easy to break and with little to no elasticity. Webstaurant Store calls toffee a "hard-crack" candy, which must be heated to a temperature between 295 and 304 degrees F. This allows even more water to evaporate from the mix, increasing the sugar content to 99%.
Toffee is a confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses (creating inverted sugar) along with butter, and occasionally flour. The mixture is heated until its temperature reaches the hard crack stage of 149 to 154 °C (300 to 310 °F). While being prepared, toffee is sometimes mixed with nuts or raisins.
Toffee is a sweet, buttery confection made by cooking butter and sugar together to a specific temperature and letting it cool until it reaches a crisp, crunchy texture. “Toffee is sweet and buttery, sometimes sticky and always crunchy! It can be a blank canvas for adding nuts or dried fruit.
Toffee is a hard candy made by cooking a sugar syrup with butter to the hard crack stage, 300–310°F (149–154°C), and then pouring it out to cool. It can have inclusions or not, and it can be made either very dense and hard or can be lightened by adding baking soda when the candy is almost done cooking .
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