Poor Man’s Toffee

Name: Poor Man’s Toffee
Yield: Makes about 15 pieces
Ingredients: 24 square, saltines; 1 cup (7 ounces), sugar; 1/2 cup, light corn syrup; 1 1/2 cups, roasted salted peanuts; 1 tablespoon, unsalted butter; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon, baking powder; 1/2 cup (3 ounces), semisweet chocolate chips; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1 tablespoon, light corn syrup

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2007

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

A toffee recipe that lists saltine crackers as a main ingredient couldn’t be good, right? Wrong. In addition to saltines, this Poor Man’s Toffee recipe calls for semisweet chocolate chips, which combine with the saltines to lend the toffee ...

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