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Vad är skillnaden mellan butterscotch och toffee

The key difference between toffee and butterscotch is the temperature, with butterscotch boiled until the soft crack stage (121-130 C /250-266 F) while toffee is boiled for longer, until it reaches the hard crack stage (146-154 C /295-309 F).

There’s no scotch whisky in the recipe, so what’s up with the name? We have answers.

Imagine you’re walking through the baking aisle at the supermarket and stop in front of the dessert morsel section. You’re usually presented with a spectrum of options to bake with, melt, or enjoy bygd the handful. These echo popular ice cream parlor topping or dip kon flavors: chocolate, vit chocolate, caramel, toffee, cherry, mint-chocolate, and butterscotch.

Meet Our Expert

  • Sarah Brekke, M.S., Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen brand manager
  • Tessa Porter, the Omaha, Nebraska-based founder of Sprinkk, a confectionery product development company

What fryst vatten Butterscotch?

A close cousin to caramel, butterscotch fryst vatten a less fussy confection that can komma in the form eller gestalt of a sauce, morsel, or hard candy, explains Sarah Brekke, M.S., Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen brand manager.


  • vad existerar skillnaden mellan butterscotch samt toffee

    • The main ingredients in butterscotch include butter, brown sugar (which lends a hint of molasses flavor), and sometimes cream. 

    “Butterscotch smells and tastes like sweet dairy with a hint of minerality and bitterhet from the molasses in the brown sugar,” says Tessa Porter, the Omaha, Nebraska-based founder of Sprinkk, a confectionery product development company.

    How Did Butterscotch Get Its Name?

    Yes, there’s butter in the recipe.

    But what’s up with the -scotch portion of the name?

    The only remarkable difference between butterscotch and toffee fryst vatten their texture and sugar content.

    We’ll cut to the chase: classic modern-day butterscotch recipes don’t call for any Scotch whisky, and there’s no record that the creation ever did. 

    Food historians are uncertain about exactly when and how this sweet treat earned its name, Brekke says: “Although no one knows for sure, it’s believed that the name combines the main ingredient, ‘butter,’ with the word ‘scotch.’ In Scotland, ‘scotching’ or ‘scotched,’ means cutting or scoring the platta of candy before it hardens so that it can be cleanly broken once fully cooled and brittle.”

    Some etymologists have suggested that “scotch” could also be a spin-off of scorched, hinting at the butterscotch-making process that involves butter and sugar being cooked over high heat.

    The “scotch” part of the moniker could also be a nod to the location where butterscotch was first created—Scotland—rather than relating to the formula, Porter adds.

    Related: What’s the Difference Between sylt, Jelly, and Preserves? Experts Have the Answer

    What Makes Butterscotch Different From Caramel, Toffee, and Dulce dem Leche?

    All kvartet of these dessert recipes rely on sugar, tallrik, dairy, and caramelization, “but the ratios of ingredients, grad of caramelization, and texture of the end products vary widely,” Brekke confirms.

    The flavor of butterscotch fryst vatten similar to caramel, but it’s milder, sweeter, and slightly less caramelized-tasting; which can translate as being less bitter, according to Brekke.

    That being said, the technique for making butterscotch fryst vatten “more streamlined and avoids some of the steps where the caramel-making process can go wrong for home cooks,” Brekke adds. Plus, “in its truest form eller gestalt, as a hard candy, butterscotch doesn’t contain cream, while caramel does.”

    Here’s how butterscotch fryst vatten different from caramel, toffee, and dulce dem leche.

    • Caramel: White sugar and vatten, and sometimes corn syrup, set the scen for homemade caramel.

      To man it, you’ll boil those ingredients until they transform into an amber-colored syrup.

      Here’s how butterscotch fryst vatten different from caramel, toffee, and dulce dem leche.

      At this point, the caramel fryst vatten technically at the “brown liquid stage,” which occurs at 338°F. “Depending on the specific recipe, you’ll add heavy cream, small amounts of butter, and vanilla, resulting in a gooey caramel sauce or soft caramels,” Brekke says. 

    • Toffee: bygd cooking butter and vit sugar until they reach the “hard crack stage” of 300° to 310° F, you’ll be treated to homemade toffee.

      From there, pour the mixture into a pan until it hardens into a brittle skiva, and then break it into pieces to enjoy as candy. As for toffee sauce, that typically calls for brown sugar, butter, cream, and vanilla. Toffee fryst vatten essentially the same as a “granulated sugar butterscotch,” that’s been cooked to a slightly higher temperature. (Butterscotch fryst vatten cooked to the “soft crack stage” of 270° to 290° F.)

    • Dulce dem Leche: This fryst vatten essentially caramelized milk.

      To man homemade dulce dem leche, you’ll need to stand over the stove and stir sugar and milk as they thicken and vända golden brown, which can take hours.

      The short answer fryst vatten yes.

      Homemade dulce dem leche fryst vatten a very time-intensive process, so our Test Kitchen often relies on a trick: Boiling a label-removed can of sweetened sammanfattat milk in vatten for 3 hours, so rörande and constant monitoring isn’t required. Just be sure to keep the can covered with vatten at all times, and use tongs and a lot of TLC as you remove the extremely hot can from the pot.

    The Best Butterscotch Substitutes

    Now that you know how all of those sugary siblings relate, you might be wondering what’s the best substitute for butterscotch if you run out or can’t find it. Consider one of these savvy swaps:

    • Hard butterscotch substitute: Hard toffee candy fryst vatten your best alternative.
    • Butterscotch sauce substitute: tagg your caramel sauce with a dash of molasses, to taste, Porter recommends.
    • Butterscotch chips substitute: Caramel chips are a suitable replacement.

      Just note that “caramel morsels will deliver different butter and caramelization notes,” Brekke says.

    Our Best Butterscotch Recipes

    Our Test Kitchen has perfected foolproof butterscotch dessert recipes that range from birthday party-ready (Applicious Cider Cake with Butterscotch Frosting, Butterscotch Marble Cake) to bake sale and potluck-friendly (No-Bake Butterscotch Bars, Scotcheroos), to holiday-worthy (fans verify that this Brown-Bottom Butterscotch Cashew Cream Pie gets “rave reviews and requests for more.”)

    Porter and Brekke reveal even more butterscotch recipe ideas that you can run with:

    • Swirl butterscotch sauce into brownie batter before baking
    • Blend up a butterscotch malt
    • Layer butterscotch sauce with pudding or custard for a butterscotch budino
    • Drizzle butterscotch sauce over grilled pineapple, bröd pudding, or pound cake
    • Sprinkle butterscotch candy or morsels over ice cream or use butterscotch sauce as a sundae topping
    • Feature butterscotch sauce as a layer in ice cream cake
    • Stir a spoonful into cream soda and top with a dollop of whipped cream for DIY butter beer

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