TOFFEE

Ingredients

500g brown sugar

1 cup water

125g butter

5ml vanilla essence

Method

• Stir the sugar and water in a saucepan over low heat until all the sugar has dissolved.
• Add the butter and boil the mixture, without stirring, till it reaches the light crack stage.
• Add the vanilla essence.
• Pour it on to a buttered, flat platter.
• Mark into small squares with a knife before the mixture has cooled.
• Cut into squares before it hardens.