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toffee

/ˈtɑfi/
/ˈtɒfi/
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Other forms: toffees

Toffee is a hard or brittle candy made from butter and sugar. Some candy bars are made by coating toffee in chocolate. Yum!

Toffee is often confused with another candy with nearly the exact same ingredients, taffy. The difference is mainly in the candy-making process: taffy is pulled and stretched until it's soft and chewy. Toffee, on the other hand, won't stick in your teeth like taffy, because it is boiled, shaped, and allowed to harden into a delicious, glossy slab.

Definitions of toffee
  1. noun
    caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
    synonyms: brittle, toffy
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    types:
    peanut brittle
    brittle containing peanuts
    type of:
    candy, confect
    a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
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