    
© Copyright 2009. All rights reserved and enforced.
Butter Brickle
Butter Brickle is both a taste and a texture.
It's small, shattered, crunchy pieces of golden-brown coloured, buttery-tasting hard toffee, which are also sometimes sold as "toffee bits."
Many Butter Brickle variants now add nuts -- usually walnuts or pecans -- for added richness and crunch, but pure, authentic Butter Brickle has no nuts: it is its own flavour and crunch.
It can be used in cakes, frostings, cookies, ice creams, cream pie fillings, and as toppings for various desserts.
Cooking Tips
To make a basic brickle:
1 cup (8 oz / 225 g) sugar
4 tablespoons of water
1/2 pound (1 cup / 225 g) of butter
Off the stove, mix in a saucepan the sugar and the water, then dollop the butter in. Cover the pan, put it on the stove, and bring to a boil. Remove the cover, lower the temperature to a rollicking simmer, and let the mixture reduce until it darkens. Cover a cookie sheet with plastic wrap; pour the mixture out onto the cookie sheet and let cool and harden, then break and shatter into small pieces.
Many people, though, often just crumble up bits of toffee -- in America, people will reach for Heath bars; in Canada, Mackintosh's Toffee.
History
Betty Crocker made a cake mix and a frosting mix that were butter brickle flavoured up until 1990. To recapture the taste of the Betty Crocker cake mix: use a white or yellow cake mix, swap in melted butter for any oil called for, add 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, and once mixed, stir in 1/2 cup (8 tablespoons) of Butter Brickle bits.
Language Notes
Brickle is just an old English variant on the word "brittle".
See Also
Butter Brickle Ice Cream
Other entries for Candy
Akide Candy, Barley Sugar, Butter Brickle, Candy Canes, Fudge, Jelly Beans, Konpeitou, Liquorice Allsorts, Mackintosh's Toffee, Marrons Glacés, M&Ms, Opera Creams, Peeps, Pomfret Cakes, Pralines, Red Liquorice, Turkish Delight
Other entries for Desserts
Aboukir Almonds, Angel Delight, Applesauce, Bananas Foster, Bangbelly, Belgian Waffles, Bhapa Doi, Bizcocho Borracho, Blancmange, Cakes, Cassata Gelata, Cassata, Cassatelle di Ricotta, Cherries Jubilee, Chiboust Cream, Compote, Cookies, Cream Tea, Crème d'amandes, Crème Plombières, Cumberland Rum Butter, Custard, Doughnuts, Dream Topping, Dream Whip, Dutch Crunch Topping, Eton Mess, French Toast, Fürst-Pückler-Eis, Halvah, Ice Cream Cones, Marshmallows, Meringue Italienne, Meringue Powder, Meringue, Mishti Doi, Moonpies, Nanaimo Bars, Nun's Tummies, Orange à la Norvegienne, Pastry Cream, Pies & Tarts, Poor Knights of Windsor, Poutine au Pain, Poutine à Trou, Puddings, Spumoni, Syllabub, Timbale Brillat-Savarin, Tiramisù, Tortoni, Trifle, Vark, Waffles, Wagashi, Warabi Mochi, Zuccotto
Other entries for Dishes
Dumplings, Ozoni, Salads, Savoury Dishes, Zoni
Top...
|
|
| |
|