Woah guys we just made this monster of a batch of Cinder Toffee, it’s really something you should try. And super easy to boot! Following a recipe by the Goddess herself, Nigella Lawson
For a batch the size that we made, which by weight is probably very little, but by volume would fill a large 1kg quality street/celebrations/rose’s tin (you know, the kind you get around this time of year!), here’s what you need to do:
Ingredients
400g of Caster sugar
8 Table spoons (or 1/2 cup, 125ml) of Golden syrup
2 Table spoons of Bicarbonate of Soda
The process of making the cinder toffee is simple.
Start off by putting your sugar and syrup in a heavy based saucepan (make sure you use an oversized one!), mix these together as best you can (it doesn’t really work when it’s cold, so it’s best to keep mixing throughout the simmering).
Place over a lowish heat, everything will melt into a lava type substance that bubbles and boils… don’t freakin’ touch this.
Ok, so when it’s all lovely and golden (think… autumn) turn off the heat.
Put the bicarb in and whisk it.
Ready? READY? It turns into a f**king sugar monster. Yeh, see now why I told you to use a huge pan? We did’t the first time we made this, resulting in loads of fun :/
Righto, now you should pour this into either a greased up tin (again, you may need a big big sized one, or two.. just have a couple ready incase).
Now leave it 1 hour-ish or until it’s gone cold and hard.
Take it out and bash it up a bit, making super sticky hands but gorgeous lumps of cindery goodness. Voila!
Cinder toffee block snapped in half, how cool does this look?
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Nice – made me laugh & made me want to cook it, which I’m going to do tonight.
Cheers!
OMG I love cinder toffee and I am really surprised you have been allowed to publish this recipe :-) Glad they have left it on here it creased me up laughing, can picture the scene but thanks for the tips, I’m going to have a go for bonfire night :-)
Heh I just followed this recipe and had a very similar experience. It was all going so neatly until I added the bicarb and then… well now I get to chisel solid sugar off the cooker, the counter, and the inside of the pan it was made in.
hah! I did warn you ;)
Just add Water! Water dissolves sugar remember!
hiya ive just had ago at this recipie and ive had ago at a few and im having trouble getting it to set crunchy, has anyone got any ideas please :) i dont want to keep wasting ingrediants
Hiya i think you will find u are not boiling it long enough. Has to be boiled long enough for the heat to get really hot and all the sugar to melt. Hope you get nice crunchy toffee soon xxx