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Our simple 5 ingredient pretzel toffee is a delicious blend of sweet and salty flavors – a no-fail treat perfect for sharing!
A Pretzel Version
We love to make treats, and especially candy around the holidays. One favorite is this EASY pretzel toffee. We’ve tried it with white chocolate and a regular chocolate version. Both were hits with the whole family!!
Not only is this great to serve at parties, or to make “just because” but we love to gift it to others too. It can easily be packaged in containers and wrapped with a pretty bow for friends, neighbors, teachers, and more. And to be honest – it’s always a hit!
If you love regular toffee, you’ll love this pretzel version. And if you love candy, you’ll also love our Christmas crack or our Homemade Turtle Candy.
WHY WE LOVE IT:
- A time saver. It only takes about 30 minutes of active work and the rest is letting it chill. It’s that simple!
- Only 5 ingredients. Toffee doesn’t get any easier than that!
- Giftable. Who doesn’t love toffee? This is an easy recipe for gifting, and everyone loves that sweet and salty flavor!
Ingredients
PREP TIME: 15 minutes
COOK TIME: 10 minutes
COOL TIME: 1 hour 20 minutes
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar – light or dark brown sugar
- 1 cup chocolate chips – milk chocolate chips or dark chocolate chips
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 2 cups pretzels – We used pretzel twists, but you could easily use pretzel wafers or thin pretzel crisps.
- 1-2 cups toffee bits, optional – or sprinkles, chopped nuts, crushed graham crackers, sea salt, toasted coconut
How to make Pretzel Toffee
- PREP. Preheat oven to 350°F. Add parchment paper to a baking sheet.
- ASSEMBLE. Spread 2 cups pretzels in a single layer over the parchment paper and set aside.
- Melt 1 cup butter and 1 cup brown sugar in a pot. Cook on medium heat for 7-8 minutes or until a tan-ish brown color.
- BAKE. Pour toffee mixture over pretzels making sure to cover all the pretzels. Bake at 350°F for 10 minutes.
- TOPPINGS. Sprinkle 1 cup chocolate chips over half of the pan. Sprinkle 1 cup white chocolate chip over the other half of the pan. Let chips melt for a few minutes and spread with a spatula to cover the toffee layer. Sprinkle with any desired toppings.
- CHILL. Let cool at room temperature for 1 hour, then refrigerate until hardened. Break into pieces and store in an airtight container in the fridge.
PRO TIP: PREVENT GRAINY Toffee
To help the sugar dissolve, stir the butter and sugar very gently during the first 4-5 minutes being careful not to get sugar on the sides of the pot. Once dissolved do not stir while it actively simmers for the last 3 minutes.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup chocolate chips, (milk, or dark chocolate)
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 2 cups pretzels
- 1-2 cups toffee bits, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Add parchment paper to a cookie sheet. Spread the pretzels in a single layer over the parchment paper and set aside.
- Melt butter and brown sugar in a pot. Cook on medium heat for 7-8 minutes or until a tan-ish brown color.
- Pour toffee mixture over pretzels making sure to cover all the pretzels. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Sprinkle chocolate chips over half of the pan and the white chocolate chips over the other half. Let chips melt for a few minutes and spread with a spatula to cover the toffee layer. Sprinkle with any desired toppings.
- Let cool at room temperature for 1 hour, then refrigerate until hardened. Break into pieces and store in an airtight container in the fridge.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Recipe FAQ
Store in an airtight container separating layers with wax or parchment paper. Store in the fridge for 1-2 weeks.
You’re instructions say- melt the Butter THEN add the sugar. Comment # 20 says add them both at the same time?? When you say, cook for 7 or 8 minutes, are you talking a simmer , a boil? I’d love to try this but don’t want to waste the money on ingredients and just need to make sure I have the directions correct. Thank you!
You melt the butter, then add the sugar and cook for 7-8 min on medium heat. Medium heat won’t be a boil, maybe a simmer. Hope that helps!!
Love your recepi will use it for tea partty. Thank you so much will let you know how it turn out.
This is a great recipe for a tea party!! I’d love to hear how it turns out!
We can never have too much toffee! This looks so tasty!
I tried this recipe … are you sure you add a whole cup of butter? I had to drain off the excess butter when I poured it on the pretzels and I cooked it for the 8 minutes. It still turned out really yummy. But there was alot of butter still left in the saucepan.
It is cold for us in Utah Lily
hello. Just made this and also had a problem with my toffee. It never came together and separated something awful. I poured a good 1/8 of cup of butter to the sink and still salvaged the rest to make the dish. But are you sure these measurements are correct? Do I need to add the sugar before the butter gets too hot, maybe? Or keep the temperature a little lower versus a little too high?? Not sure,what happened!?
Gina
Don’t melt the butter first, put the sugar and cold butter together in the pot and then warm it.
Hi! I’m so excited to try this version! I make mine with a cup of butter, a cup of brown sugar, chocolate chips and graham crackers (and chopped pecans on top of you so choose). I only cook my butter and brown sugar for exactly 3 minutes and then in the oven at 350 for 10 minutes, then add the chocolate and spread when they start to melt. I’m excited to see the difference in the toffee because of the different cook times and different sugars. Thanks!
Would love to know how it goes and what the difference is between yours and this recipe. Hope you like it! 🙂
Hi. I noticed your picture appears yo have chopped nuts or toffee bits on the pretzel toffee. Can you tell me which one it is? Thanks.
It’s toffee bits sprinkled on top. 🙂
I tried to make this recipe this afternoon, as I always love anything with toffee; however, the butter and sugar would not combine how I believe it should have. Should the “sugar” have been “brown sugar” instead?
Hmmm… not sure what happened but it’s regular sugar and not brown sugar. Was it on medium heat and how long did you cook it for?
I had the same problem – I remade it and put the butter and sugar together in the pot to begin with, without melting the butter first. Something to do with the temperature screwed up the toffee when I melted the butter first.