Chocolate Walnut Butter Crunch!! Buttery, crunchy candy center coated in chocolate and sprinkled with roasted walnuts.
Can you believe it? Christmas is over for another year but I’m pretty sure I will be wearing the extra calories on my hips for the next 6 months 😉 . I over indulged but aren’t we suppose to at Christmas? I ate so many sweets that the only kind of food I am craving today is something spicy. My system is obviously searching for balance here so I’m thinking some Thai for dinner, anyone else with me?
I had the best intentions to post this Chocolate Walnut Butter Crunch before Christmas but as life would have it I ran out of time and energy. So I am hoping some of you out there are still in the mood for something sweet, rich, buttery and crunchy and if not just pin it for later. If you’re like me the cravings will be back in a few days.
This Chocolate Walnut Butter Crunch is much like a toffee. Its buttery, brittle, sweet and crunchy as it then begins to melt in your mouth. I swiped over the top and bottom with some silky chocolate and then added some toasted walnuts and a sprinkling of sea salt (only on one side) for a little balance. The difference with this toffee is that it used granulated sugar rather than brown sugar thus lending to lighter color and a stronger buttery flavor.
Hope you all have a wonderful holiday week and a happy new year!!
Enjoy!
Stacey
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FORGOT TO PIN IT? Here it is! Thanks.
Chocolate Walnut Butter Crunch
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3 Tbsp water
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 cups of chocolate divided in half
- 2 cups toasted walnuts rough chopped divided in half
- 1 tsp flake sea salt
Instructions
- Line cookie sheet with parchment, butter it, set aside.
- In a medium sauce pan add the butter, sugar, water, salt. Bring to a boil stirring all the time.
- Continue to cook over medium heat until temp reaches 298 degrees F, continue to continually stir.
- Remove from heat, add the vanilla, stir.
- Pour onto prepared baking sheet. Let set/cool completely.
- Blot toffee with towel to remove extra oil from surface.
- Melt 1/2 your chocolate, spread over the top of the toffee, sprinkle with half the walnuts and sprinkle with sea salt. Let set completely.
- When ready, melt the second half of the chocolate.
- Flip over the toffee, blot with towel.
- Spread with melted chocolate, sprinkle with remaining walnuts.
- Let set completely.
- When ready to break you can either break it in rough pieces or cut with a large knife, run the knife under hot water first to get the blade warm, dry off and cut.
- Store in airtight container.
Notes
My intention was to live on salad this week to recoup from the over-indulgence of the Xmas weekend, I haven’t eaten a single leaf of lettuce yet 🙁 This candy looks so good! I love sweet and salty, so the sea salt is a perfect touch to offset the sweetness of the candy.
Hi Thao, lol, thats how my week started to, my intentions were good but didn’t quite make it to the end result. Sweet and salty is the way to go!! Take care.
A toffee recipe with crunchy walnuts and chocolate on both sides!! Love it!
Thanks Deepika! Its a winner!! Happy New Year! Take care.
Looks so yummy! Pinning!
Hi Karly, thanks, its sooo good! 😉 Take care.
OK this is amazing! I don´t care if Christmas is over, I am making these! they sound so devine, thanks for the great recipe 🙂
Thanks Albert! My thoughts exactly ;-). You are more than welcome. Take care.
I know! I can’t believe Christmas is over for another year. I can totally relate to running out of time. There’s always so much to do before the holidays. Lucky for you, I think this recipe is appropriate year round! Definitely pinning for later! Happy (almost) 2018!!
Hi Leanne! Happy almost New Year to you as well 🙂 . Agreed, this recipe would be great all year round. Take care.
I totally overindulged too, and you know what’s funny? I made a SPICY Thai soup for dinner tonight, haha. I guess there’s something about spice cutting through all of that sugar!! I think I could make room for some of this crunch though – just the words “butter crunch” have me all excited 🙂
Hi Katherine, lol, thats too funny but thai is the way to go if you want spicy!! You’re so right, “butter crunch” are the magic words. Take care 😉