Sea Salt Toffee with Caramel Slab Sugar | Dark Amber Shards in 25 Minutes

Sea salt toffee, the slow-cook kind

Sea salt toffee is a small piece of theatre in the kitchen. Sugar, cream, butter, salt. Boiled until the colour goes deep amber, poured onto parchment, broken into shards when cool. The whole performance takes about twenty minutes, and what you end up with is an addictively dark, slightly salty candy that out-classes any wrapper-bound version.

Ship Brand Caramel Slab Sugar is what makes our version dark. The traditional slab gives a depth you cannot get from white granulated, and the slight bitterness at the back stops the candy from being one-note sweet.

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Why this sugar

Made with Ship Brand Caramel Slab Sugar 黃片糖. Heritage slab cane sugar for deep caramel notes. Shop the sugar.

Recipe

Yield: about 200 g of shards

Total: 25 minutes plus cool time

Ingredients

• 120 g Ship Brand Caramel Slab Sugar, chopped fine
• 60 g unsalted butter
• 60 g heavy cream, warmed
• 1 teaspoon flaky sea salt, plus more to finish
• Half teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)

Directions

1. Line a baking sheet with parchment.
2. Put the sugar and butter into a heavy pot over medium heat. Stir until both melt and the mixture is smooth.
3. Stop stirring. Let the mixture bubble until it turns a deep amber colour, about 8 to 10 minutes. Watch carefully past minute 7.
4. Remove from heat. Carefully whisk in the warm cream. The toffee will bubble up.
5. Stir in the salt and vanilla. Return to low heat for a minute if the toffee seizes.
6. Pour onto the parchment in a thin layer. Sprinkle extra flaky salt on top.
7. Cool to room temperature, then chill 20 minutes. Break into shards.

Ship Brand (帆船牌) is the retail line of Yuen Tung Sugar Factory Industrial Company Limited. Sugar refined in Hong Kong since 1948. Shop the collection.