Easy Chocolate Topped Cashew Toffee

Easy chocolate-topped cashew toffee is a crunchy, sweet candy made with only five ingredients. You are sure to fall in love with it.

 This easy toffee recipe is one of my favorite candy recipes around the holidays. It is super simple to make, and it turns out delicious. Though it is one of my favorites around the holidays, I enjoy making this recipe year-round.

One of the things I love about this recipe is that there is no need to have a candy thermometer. All you need is a timer to determine when to make this candy. It is one of my favorite candies year-round.

Helpful tips

• Have the ingredients measured out and ready to go before you start heating the butter and brown sugar. Once the toffee has cooked, you will need to add the vanilla right away.
• Have the baking pan lined with foil and buttered, and add cashews before you start cooking the toffee.
• Stir the butter and brown sugar constantly to prevent the mixture from scorching or burning.
• I like to use salted butter. I think that it is more flavorful than unsalted butter. But if you prefer, you can use unsalted butter.
• Turn on the timer once the mixture starts to boil.
• Once the time is up, work quickly. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the vanilla immediately.
• Once the vanilla is stirred in, quickly pour the toffee over the cashew and spread it out.
• Make sure to add the chocolate chips while the toffee is hot. This will help them melt and make them easy to spread.
• I like to store this toffee in the refrigerator in an airtight container.

Ingredients

• Butter
• Light Brown Sugar
• Vanilla
• Cashew
• Milk Chocolate Chips

Steps for making this easy toffee recipe

Steps one, two, and three

Line an 8-by-8-inch baking pan with aluminum foil. Grease the foil with butter and set a side. In a medium saucepan, add the butter and brown sugar and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly

Steps four, five, and six

Once the toffee has cooked for seven minutes, add vanilla, mix, and pour it into the prepared pan. Spread the mixture over the cashew. Sprinkle the chocolate chips over the hot toffee. Once melted, spread over the top of the toffee.

Additional candy recipes

• Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzels
• Peanut Butter Balls
• Mint Brownie Truffles
• Chocolate Brownie Truffles

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Easy Cashew Toffee

Easy chocolate-topped cashew toffee is a crunchy, sweet candy made with only five ingredients. You are sure to fall in love with it.

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Course: Candy, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Easy Cashew Toffee, Easy Toffee, Chocolate Topped Toffee

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 7 minutes minutes

Servings: 12 pieces

Calories: 226kcal

Author: Dawn Yucuis

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup roughly chopped cashews
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 3/4 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

• Line an 8 by 8 baking pan with aluminum foil. Generously butter the foil and spread the cashews over the bottom of the pan.
• In a medium saucepan add the butter and brown sugar. Over medium heat bring this to a boil.
• Boil for 7 minutes, making sure that you keep stirring the mixture so it does not burn.
• After 7 minutes remove the pan from the heat and stir in the vanilla.
• Quickly pour the toffee over the nuts. (Make sure to pour the toffee over as much of the pan as possible, it hardens quickly so it is hard to spread).
• Spread the mixture to cover the nuts.
• Sprinkle the chocolate chips over the hot toffee and spread the chips until melted.
• Let the toffee cool completely.
• Remove from the baking pan and then remove the aluminum foil from the toffee.
• Cut into desired pieces.

Notes

1. Have the ingredients measured out and ready to go before you start heating the butter and brown sugar. Once the toffee has cooked, you will need to add the vanilla right away.
2. Have the baking pan lined with foil and buttered and the add cashews before you start cooking the toffee.
3. Stir the butter and brown sugar constantly to prevent the mixture from scorching or burning.
4. I like to use salted butter. I think that it is more flavorful than unsalted butter. But if you prefer, you can use unsalted butter.
5. Turn on the timer once the mixture starts to boil.
6. Once the time is up, work quickly. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the vanilla immediately.
7. Once the vanilla is stirred in, quickly pour the toffee over the cashew and spread it out.
8. Make sure to add the chocolate chips while the toffee is hot. This will help them melt and make them easy to spread.
9. I like to store this toffee in the refrigerator in an airtight container.

 

Nutrition information is an estimate and may vary with the brands of ingredients used.

Nutrition

Calories: 226kcal | Carbohydrates: 22.6g | Protein: 2.2g | Fat: 7.8g | Cholesterol: 23mg | Sodium: 68mg | Potassium: 108mg | Fiber: 0.6g | Sugar: 19.2g | Calcium: 37mg | Iron: 1mg

This recipe was originally published on November 30, 2016, and has been updated with new content and pictures on December 18, 2025.