Honeycomb Toffee!

Buzz! Buzz! It’s honeycomb time! This candy is a delicious honey flavoured, honeycomb looking treat! Some people call is “sponge toffee” or “sea foam” because it’s light and airy! This treat is perfect for eating on it’s own, but it’s also great covered in chocolate, crushed up on ice cream, put into cake layers, in my world it’s the perfect accent to any dessert!

It’s the bee’s knees!

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Honeycomb Toffee

Yield: about a 12”x10” rectangle

• 1 1/4 cup Sugar

• 1/4 cup Corn Syrup

• 1/4 cup Honey

• 1/4 cup Water

• 1 Tablespoon Baking Soda

1. In a 2-3 qt. pot place your sugar, corn syrup, honey and water. Stir to combine and make sure all your sugar gets wet, then scrape down the sides so there aren’t any clumps of sugar sticking to them.

2. Line a baking tray with a silicon pad or a piece of parchment and grease with baking spray or oil/butter. Place next to your stove.

3. On a high heat, cook your sugar mixture until it reaches 300*F with a thermometer, this is called the “hard crack” stage, remove from the heat.

4. Quickly whisk in your baking soda and it is going to start GROWING! Be careful this is still SUPER HOT! Quickly pour your honeycomb onto the greased and lined baking tray. Don’t smooth out, just let it go where it may, the more your smooth, the less bubbles you will have.

5. Let cool for about 2 hours, then crack into pieces and store in a sealed container.

Some call it sponge toffee, some call it sea foam, but no matter what you call it, this light and airy candy is fun to make AND fun to eat!

Granola Bars - dreaming about when we need quick breakfasts again!

Granola bars are my go to breakfast when I am not stuck in my house avoiding the general public and daily life…oh the days before social distancing, seems like so long ago…it was only 4 days…just a few more to go, right! These babies are easy to prepare and then once cooled you can wrap them up individually and pop them in the freezer, all ready to go for easy snacking!

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Granola Bars!

Granola Bars

Yield: 9”x13” pan

Preheat your oven to 350*F

• 1/3 cup Butter

• 1/3 cup Brown Sugar

• 3/4 teaspoon Salt

• 1 cup Honey or Maple Syrup (if you don’t have enough of either you can supplement with corn syrup, it just doesn’t have as much flavour)

• 4 cups Oats- ideally old fashioned rolled oats, but use what you have, we’re in quarantine!

• 2 cups almonds or other nut, toasted lightly in the oven

• 2 cups shredded Coconut

• 1 1/3 cup Dried Fruit - I used a mix of dried cranberries and raisins, with a little bit of chocolate chips!

1. In a saucepan place the butter, brown sugar, salt and honey. Bring to a boil.

2. While that is heating, mix together the oats, almonds, coconut and dried fruit to combine.

3. Pour the honey butter mixture on top of the oat mixture and stir to combine.

4. Grease a 9”x13” pan, then place a piece of parchment on the bottom and grease that as well.

5. Pour granola bar mixture into the pan and with damp or greased hands just press it into the pan until it feels firm.

6. Bake for about 20 minutes or until lightly golden.

7. Let cool (ideally overnight or for a few hours) and slice into bar sized pieces - I like to wrap them individually in saran wrap and pop them in the freezer, but you can also just crumble up the granola and put it into a jar for eating on top of yogurt or fruit. Yum!

We're in quarantine baking granola bars! One day we can go back to work and we will be stocked up with lots of snacks for work lunches!