How to make homemade toffee candy. Iris candies - composition and types of delicacies; product selection and storage; benefit and harm; DIY recipe at home. Method for preparing toffees

The smells during cooking, and later the taste of the candy, took me back to my distant student years, when my mother gave us sour cream with the hope that the children would cook borscht, and we made toffee from it. And the whole floor usually came running to this extraordinary aroma. At that time we didn’t have molds - everything cooled in an ordinary deep bowl, and then everyone chopped off a piece for themselves with a knife.

From two ingredients - sour cream and sugar - you can make excellent Toffee candies at home. There are no difficulties in preparation. Try it, you will like the result!

Ingredients

To make Toffee candies at home, we will need:

sour cream - 750 ml;

sugar - 500 ml.

Cooking steps

Let's prepare the necessary ingredients for making Toffee candies. It’s better to take homemade, full-fat sour cream. If you buy in a store, then take non-powder, with a fat content of at least 20%. It will work great if you replace the sour cream with cream.

In the very first minutes, the sugar will begin to melt and the sour cream will change color. Sour cream is fatty - it will not stick to the sides, but it can burn, so you should not leave the stove, you need to stir periodically, but not constantly.

The longer you cook, the more intensely yellow the mixture will become and become thicker and thicker.

Delicious "Iriski" candies are ready. This is how easy it is to prepare a wonderful treat for the whole family using sour cream and sugar at home.

Bon appetit!

Step 1: prepare the ingredients.

Approximately in 20 – 30 minutes Before cooking, place the butter on the kitchen table, remove the packaging and cut into layers or cubes up to 2 centimeters thick. Place the sour cream (cream) in a small saucepan and place on the kitchen table the remaining ingredients that will be needed to make the sweets.

Step 2: prepare the candies.

Once the butter has softened, you can start making the toffee. Take a small non-stick saucepan or aluminum cauldron. Add the required amount of sugar and honey to it.
Mix them thoroughly with a wooden kitchen spatula until they have a homogeneous consistency, put them on medium heat and let them boil.

After boiling, reduce the heat temperature to a level between low and medium. Cook the resulting mixture, stirring vigorously, for 10 minutes until it turns a deep amber color. During this time, the sugar grains will completely dissolve, and a pleasant honey aroma will spread throughout the kitchen.

After 10 minutes We begin to add pieces of butter to the cauldron, mixing it with the honey-sugar mixture with a spatula. At the same time, heat the sour cream (cream) on the adjacent burner; this product must be hot; if you add it cold, the boiling candy mixture will begin to splash, which can cause a burn!

As soon as the sour cream (cream) warms up to the desired temperature, pour it into the cauldron with the still liquid candy mass and continue to cook for 15 – 20 minutes, stirring.

We check the viscosity of the toffee mixture in the usual way: using a tablespoon, drop a few drops onto a plate, let them cool, then try and decide whether the consistency of the finished sweets suits you. If yes, remove the cauldron from the stove and slightly cool its contents.

Step 3: bring the dish to full readiness.

In the meantime, we select the dish in which we will form the candies, in my case it is a regular rectangular baking dish. Cover it with plastic cling film and grease it with a thin layer of refined vegetable oil.
After the candy mixture has cooled slightly, pour it into the prepared pan, level it with a metal kitchen spatula and leave at room temperature until completely cooled.

After some time, divide the plastic, unhardened iris into portions, drawing them with a knife in the form of triangles, squares, rectangles or cubes.

Wrap each soft candy in parchment paper or foil and place them in the refrigerator for 1 – 1.5 hours until completely frozen.

Step 4: Serve the toffees at home.

Toffees at home are served chilled. They are placed in dessert vases and served at the table with other equally delicious sweets. Such homemade sweets are much healthier and tastier than store-bought ones; you can take them on a long trip, on a picnic, for a walk, or give them to children at school. Enjoy!
Bon appetit!

Instead of plastic cling film, you can use parchment or baking paper, but before that it should be soaked in butter or vegetable oil;

If desired, you can add vanilla sugar and cinnamon to the toffee mixture during cooking, and crushed nuts and dried fruits to the finished cooling mixture;

To form toffees, you can use any molds, for example, for ice or candy boxes;

Very often, instead of sugar, powdered sugar is used, for the above mass of products - 250 grams.

Back in 1902, a confectioner from France invented and first tried to make toffee candies in St. Petersburg. There he came across an incredibly tender flower - the iris, in honor of which he gave the name to his masterpiece for those with a sweet tooth and gourmands.
Of course, many will ask the question - why make toffee at home if you can go to the store and buy whatever candy you want. But the process itself and the realization of how experienced and good a housewife you are, that things in the kitchen have come to making sweets, are also very important. And if the husband and children then ask their mother to make these sweets again, because they turned out tastier than store-bought ones, then this is generally the pinnacle of culinary success. The main thing is neither to be afraid nor to be lazy, but to take and make toffee candies at home. It’s not difficult at all and you don’t need any special products; everything you need can be found in the refrigerator and kitchen cabinets. But the most important advantage of such sweets is complete confidence in their natural composition.
We offer you two toffee recipes, the first recipe is to make toffee candies yourself, from scratch using available homemade products. In the second recipe, we'll tell you how you can improve ready-made toffees by covering them with icing and adding coffee to them.
We introduce those with a sweet tooth and tireless confectioners to a recipe for creamy toffees based on sour cream. Feel free to reduce the calorie content of the treat by choosing a product with a minimum percentage of fat content! You just need to strictly follow the step-by-step instructions, correctly measure the components (and there are only three of them) and not leave the changing substance unattended in front of your eyes.

Recipe No. 1. How to make butterscotch

TIME: 60 min.

Easy

Servings: 10

Ingredients

sugar – 200 g;
sour cream – 200 g;
butter – 25 g + 5 g (for greasing the mold).

Preparation

For kitchen utensils, you will need a proven saucepan (you can use a ladle) with a thick bottom that does not allow the sweet mass to burn during quite a long cooking time - today we do not use enameled or aluminum containers with thin walls. Immediately add sour cream and all the granulated sugar into the bowl, put it on moderate heat, and continuously monitor the process. If desired, you can add a pinch of vanilla sugar.

Stir frequently with a wooden spoon, helping all the grains of sugar to dissolve. The components quickly combine and a smooth liquid appears in the ladle.

We tirelessly move the spoon in a circle, maintaining the same heat - after 3 minutes the mass acquires the consistency of liquid semolina porridge.

At the next stage, a thickness appears, similar to paste or condensed milk, the color remains still white.

After another 2-3 minutes, the volume is noticeably reduced, the liquid evaporates, thickens and a creamy tint appears.

Carefully scrape the clots from the walls, bring to a richer caramel color, add 25 g of butter and mix thoroughly one last time until smooth.

We quickly fill the mold, oiled from the inside (both spacious and miniature molds for candies are suitable, it is better if they are silicone) and level the surface. We act quickly, since the viscous caramel hardens quickly.

After 4-5 minutes, we press down the indentations, imitating the boundaries of the candies.

Let cool for about 20 minutes, break into pieces and our homemade toffee candies are ready!

Recipe No. 2. Coffee toffees in chocolate

Coffee lovers will love these amazing chocolate covered coffee toffees! Moreover, if there are coffee lovers in your circle, then be sure to prepare these sweets for them, you can even package them beautifully, attach a note with wishes for “all the very best and coffee” and present them as a “present”! We assure you that you will get a wonderful, full-fledged gift “with soul”! It is better to take freeze-dried coffee; it has a richer taste and aroma of fresh beans.

Ingredients:

How to make homemade candy

In a microwave oven (at medium power) or in a water bath, melt the finely chopped butter toffee. When using the microwave, be careful not to burn the toffee. It is advisable to turn on the oven every 20 seconds, constantly opening it and checking the condition of the candies.

Next, add butter, instant coffee and water to the melted toffee, mix, and boil in a water bath for 5-7 minutes.

Grease a silicone mold with butter, fill it with hot creamy coffee fudge, cool and place in the freezer for half an hour (so that you can then easily remove the fudge from the mold).

Melt the chocolate in a water bath (65 degrees).

Remove the frozen toffee from the molds.

Dip each toffee into melted chocolate.

Place the candies on a board covered with cling film or parchment.

Place in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

Toffee candy is a candy made with condensed milk, sugar, molasses, and butter. The French iris flower is the reason for the name of these sweets. French confectioner Josué de Mornas brought sweets to Russia in 1901. Toffees were gaining popularity among people, meanwhile the confectioner drew attention to the similar structure of the flower leaf and the candy. This is how “Iris” sweets appeared on sale. This was done for sale, since in France there were such candies for more than 50 years, only under a different name “taffy”.

Benefits of toffees

Iris sweets contain necessary and beneficial ingredients for the health of the body.

Vegetable oil gives us energy, which has a beneficial effect in the construction of new cells. Condensed milk contains a lot of fats and amino acids. Molasses provides us with good mood and energy. Toffees may contain additives, such as nuts, that have a beneficial effect on mental performance. In this case, toffee will be an irreplaceable product during the exam process.

Harm of toffees

There are also negative effects from consuming such a product. Due to the sugar contained in these sweets, fat can accumulate, resulting in a disruption of metabolic processes. This can certainly happen if you eat a lot of these sweets. Nowadays, people eat more calories than they expend. So, after we eat a delicious candy, we then have to go jogging, so to speak, to maintain health.

Toffees are healthy in small quantities, but you shouldn’t eat too much of them, so as not to harm your health.

Toffee candy with sour cream

This recipe is easy to prepare. The toffees are not very sweet with a sour cream taste.

Very light and tender, melting in your mouth.

Ingredients for the recipe “Toffee with sour cream” (for 3 servings):

30 grams – butter;
220 grams – sugar;
220 grams - sour cream.

Method for making homemade toffee with sour cream:

To make toffee we need equal amounts of sugar and sour cream, and not a large amount of butter. You can also increase the proportion in order to make more toffees.
In a small bowl, pour sour cream and sugar. For this purpose, utensils are needed from stainless steel, since the delicacy will need to be cooked over a fire for a long time. The delicacy should boil over medium heat, while stirring it all the time.
Initially, the treat will be covered with small bubbles. You should not leave the stove, as you need to stir it.
Some time will pass, and the delicacy will resemble condensed milk. You need to stir not only from above, but also from below, so that the mass does not stick to the bottom.
Then the delicacy will begin to take on a different color, thicken and become creamy, this indicates that the sweets will soon be ready. To get the deepest color of the toffee, you need to cook it longer. Of course, it will be more difficult to interfere, but you need to try to do it quickly.
And after obtaining the desired shade of the candies, you can remove them from the stove. Then add the oil and mix it well with the main mass.
The next step is to quickly pour the thick mass into molds or onto a flat surface. Molds or any other surface on which you are going to place a thick mass can be greased with oil for better hardening.
You can use various molds (glass, silicone, etc.). To make it easier to separate the toffees, you can immediately make cuts with a damp knife as soon as you put the toffee in the molds. Then we leave the toffees for a while to cool.
Remove the candies from the molds and divide them into portions. The quantity of these products according to the recipe yields 260 grams of toffee.

Coffee toffee candy

Anyone who loves coffee, I think, will appreciate the toffees prepared according to this recipe. It won’t take much time to prepare them, and there shouldn’t be any difficulties. This recipe makes 22 toffees, depending on what size they are; if they are very large, then the number of candies will be less.

Ingredients for the recipe “Coffee toffee” (for 10 servings):

30 grams – coconut flakes;
10 grams of coffee beans;
100 milliliters – Espresso coffee;
100 grams – butter;
150 grams – sugar;
120 milliliters - cream;
100 grams – hazelnuts;
30 grams – lemon zest.

Toffee candy - how to make it at home

All the necessary products that will be involved in making toffees are listed above.
In a container convenient for you, you need to melt the butter and sugar. The sugar must be completely dissolved; the mixture must be stirred constantly.
Cut the lemon zest into medium-sized strips.
Next, add the zest and sugar mixture.
Then add cream and coffee. The strength of the coffee affects the taste of the candies.
The mass must be brought to thickening, but do not forget to stir it.
The mass should be viscous. Cooking time is about 30 minutes.
After the mixture thickens, you need to pour it into molds. You can sprinkle coffee beans on top. Leave to cool.
After the toffee has cooled, we form medium-sized balls from it and dip them in coconut flakes. You can add hazelnuts to the middle.
That's all, you can eat the coffee candies. They need to be stored in the refrigerator.

Honey toffee candy

Ingredients:

200 milliliters - cream (not fat);
200 grams – sugar;
30 grams – butter;
3 tablespoons – honey;
a little salt;
refined sunflower oil to grease the molds.

Pour butter, sugar, salt and honey into a saucepan. Next, transfer to the stove, stirring until completely dissolved. The mixture should boil, then reduce the heat and simmer until thick for 30 minutes. The mixture will stretch like a thread. Pour the hot mixture into greased molds.

Leave to cool and then put in the refrigerator overnight. Due to the not very good quality of the cream, the mixture may not harden well. When it cooks, everything seems fine, the thickness is acceptable, but after it sits overnight in the refrigerator, the mass is viscous and thick, and the shape does not hold. You can get out of this situation using a freezer.

Recipe for soft toffees with milk at home

This recipe will help any person who naturally loves sweets prepare great sweets for tea parties, and not only that. After all, you always want to eat something tasty and healthy. And this recipe for toffees with milk at home comes to the rescue.

Ingredients:

200 milliliters – baked milk;
200 grams – granulated sugar;
1 PC. – vanilla sugar;
2 tablespoons – honey;
30 grams – butter.

Toffee candy preparation method:

Toffee candies are made with milk, as a result of which we place the milk in a saucepan with thick walls.
Add vanilla sugar to milk.
Pour honey and oil there. If you use high-quality, homemade milk and honey, the candies will be rich, tasty and creamy. It is not difficult to purchase them now, but they will cost much more.
Mix everything well and melt. Boil over low heat for 30 minutes. Next, the mixture will be viscous and caramel-colored.
You can use a silicone mold or a plastic one, which needs to be greased with oil. Next, use a tablespoon to fill the molds with caramel.
Then the caramel in the molds should cool and only then put it in the freezer for 30 minutes. That's all, you can pamper yourself with milky soft toffees with a creamy taste.
With this recipe you can make chocolate candies at home. To do this, you just need to add cocoa powder or dark chocolate to the recipe. And you will get wonderful toffee candies with chocolate flavor.

Homemade toffee candies made from boiled condensed milk

Nowadays, many people notice that store-bought toffee candies no longer taste the same as they did in childhood. And to get this wonderful taste of childhood, many people have to prepare their favorite delicacy at home. This recipe is very simple and you don’t need a lot of ingredients to make the toffees.

Ingredients (for 6 servings):

1 jar – condensed milk (8.5%).

Method for preparing toffee:

Pour the condensed milk into a deep cup.
We set the power in the microwave to 800 and the time for 10 minutes, then place a cup of condensed milk there. After 1-2 minutes, take the cup out of the micro-bowl and then return it back. At first the condensed milk will be liquid and boiling. Mix well and place in the microwave again. You should not leave it unattended, as condensed milk may run over the top.
While stirring, it will become noticeable that the mixture becomes thick and changes its color from cream to peach. You need to stir well so that everything is cooked evenly.
After the mixture has boiled down by half and has become much denser, you can take it out.
Mix well again and leave to cool. But do not allow it to cool completely, otherwise the mixture will harden and will be difficult to remove from the cup. Let's start forming the toffees.
Grease the dish with sunflower oil and place toffee on it. You can also wrap the toffees in tracing paper, thereby making wrappers for them, which must first be greased with oil. Next we put it in the refrigerator.
They can also be sprinkled with cocoa on top. That's all, the toffee candies are ready, you can enjoy the delicacy with the taste of childhood.

A couple of tips for making toffee sweets at home:

condensed milk must be without additives, that is, of high quality, so that there is no peeling;
Toffee sweets can be prepared using varying amounts of condensed milk, but remember that when it boils, it will quickly begin to rise and may run away. It is better to make a large number of toffees in several approaches;
the time spent on cooking may vary, depending on which microwave oven it is, it is better to pay attention to the color and density of the mixture;
Having taken the condensed milk out of the microwave, add two tablespoons of cocoa to it and stir, so that in the future you get chocolate toffee, and again set it to continue cooking;
Don’t forget that condensed milk rises quickly, you should always keep an eye on it and open the lid slightly. You need to stir as often as possible, and the bowl should have high sides.

There are several varieties of toffees: viscous, semi-hard, cast semi-solid, soft, replicated.
In America, sea salt is added to candies to enhance the caramel flavor.
Vanilla and chocolate toffees are called fudge in some countries.
The famous candy “Korovka” comes from Poland and is made from milk toffee.

Homemade toffees can be plain, sour cream, with honey or condensed milk. When cooking the sweet mass, you should remember: the thicker the toffee becomes, the more often they need to be stirred. If you don’t do this, the sugar will stick to the walls of the pan, burn, and the taste of the candies will be ruined.

Keep in mind that it is best to cook the sweet candy mixture for toffees on low heat, otherwise it may quickly burn.

To lay out and cut the toffees, it is best to use a cutting board made of glass, ceramic, metal or stone. The sweet mass will stick less easily from a wooden surface.

Ingredients:
500 g sugar
100 g butter
250 ml milk (or cream)
1 teaspoon vanilla

How to cook toffee:

Combine milk and granulated sugar in a saucepan, then place over low heat and cook, stirring constantly. When the sugar mass acquires a beautiful coffee-brown hue, you should check it for readiness. To do this, dip a little of the prepared mass into cold water. If it becomes thick, the mass is cooked.

Remove the sweet mass from the heat, grind with butter and a small amount of vanilla.

Moisten a cutting board with water, then lay out the sweet candy mixture, smooth it out and leave it for a while so that it can harden.

Cut the frozen mass into small squares or shapes of any other shape. Place the toffee in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours to set. After the specified time, the toffees are completely ready and you can enjoy their taste.

These homemade toffees take about 60 minutes to prepare. Calorie content is about 334 kcal per 100 g.

Toffees with condensed milk

Ingredients:
300 ml condensed milk
100 g butter
200 ml milk (or cream)
40 g premium wheat flour

How to cook toffee with condensed milk:

Melt the butter in a saucepan, then add the wheat flour and fry it in the oil, remembering to stir constantly. When the flour turns golden brown, pour condensed milk into it, mix well and keep on low heat for about 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, warm the milk or cream slightly and then add to the pan. Cook the sweet mass, stirring constantly, until it turns golden brown.

Place the prepared candy mass on a cutting board moistened with boiled water, level it and cut into pieces of any shape. Then leave the toffee to cool before you eat it.

When preparing toffees, you can add various ingredients to the sweet mass according to your taste, for example, cocoa powder, almonds, chopped nuts or chocolate.